Top 39 Georgia Harkness Quotes
#1. When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.
George O'Neil
#2. The truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.
Georgia Harkness
#3. Somehow my instinct told me to become acquainted with the pain. When in the company of others I forced it to the bottom of my soul, but alone I wore it on the surface, feeling it like a constant companion.
Sarah Noffke
#4. Don't feel insecure just because you lost!! We are Fairy Tail! We're from the guild that doesn't know when to stop! We won't survive unless we keep running!
Hiro Mashima
#5. Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am a beautiful woman,' nevertheless seem to think it wholly within the bounds of good taste to announce that they are Christians!
Georgia Harkness
#6. Many now veer away from the time-honored use of the term Father as applied to the Christian God ... This difficulty rests mainly, I believe, on failure to distinguish between a symbol and a definition.
Georgia Harkness
#7. We all know how to pray better than we practice what we know!
Georgia Harkness
#8. The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.
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#9. To discover, or recover, the sense of religious certainty one must worship.
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#10. Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power.
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#11. Religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human needs, has brought about an inevitable and in many respects wholesome revulsion.
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#12. To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.
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#13. Churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.
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#14. When we begin from a place of belief, no matter how small or insubstantial, we can see what was always there, hidden in plain sight.
Christie Purifoy
#15. Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.
Georgia Harkness
#16. The Woman, the Eternal Feminine envelops with her gaze of light the entire planet.
Samael Aun Weor
#18. The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own.
Georgia Harkness
#19. America is conservative in fundamental principles ... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.
Gunnar Myrdal
#20. My father was a North Somerset fisherman. He always said if the apostles needed the Lord to tell them where to cast their nets, then he could do no better than to ask the Almighty for direction as well.
Julie Klassen
#21. Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
T. E. Hulme
#22. While religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.
Georgia Harkness
#24. I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.
John Muir
#26. A sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors.
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#27. The principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.
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#28. Some people will find any reason to hate. Don't waste ur time. Lighten up! It takes so much less energy to smile than to hate. Enjoy life.
Ariana Grande
#29. Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.
Georgia Harkness
#30. The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.
Georgia Harkness
#31. The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.
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#33. The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence.
Georgia Harkness
#34. Melanie: well, tell him
wanda: what will happen then?
melanie: you know what will happen. kyle broke the rules. jeb will shoot him, or they'll kick him ou. meybe ian will beat the snot out of him first.that would be fun to watch.
Stephenie Meyer
#35. Everybody, whether or not he puts the question vocally, wants to know whether life has any meaning, what his relation is to 'whatever gods there be,' why he is here, what his destiny is, how sin and pain may be overcome, whether prayer matters, what lies beyond death for himself and his loved ones.
Georgia Harkness
#36. The most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire ... It is the cynical sneer of the man who, seeking roses, finds only ashes.
Georgia Harkness
#37. Prayer is essentially a process by which ideals are enabled to become operative in our lives. It may be more than this, but it is at least this.
Georgia Harkness
#38. Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.
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