No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
More Quotes from Felix Adler:
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.Felix Adler
Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
Felix Adler
The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.
Felix Adler
The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.
Felix Adler
In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
Felix Adler
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
Felix Adler
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Christianity Quotes, Communities Quotes, Power QuotesBased on Keywords: diminishing
And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me.
George Villiers
Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences.
Jane Roberts
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
Henry Ellis