Rauschenbusch Quotes

#1. The motivations of kings in British history can generally be reduced to two: the quest for territory and the search for a male heir. No king was secure on his throne until he had a son, and no queen consort was ever really safe without a boy.

Kate Williams

#2. History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.

Walter Rauschenbusch

#3. People tend to favor the underdog, like in the movies we favor the underdog, but when it comes to voting, we vote for the bully. It's so strange.

Jon Gnarr

#4. Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.

Walter Rauschenbusch

#5. Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

George Bernard Shaw

#6. Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought.

Walter Rauschenbusch

#7. I have long argued that, if China and the United States were interested in pursuing a strategic partnership, Africa is the best place to start, as neither enters the situation with past colonial baggage, and both possess interests that are quite complementary.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#8. Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.

Walter Rauschenbusch

#9. Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we have reformed this one program, many others remain.

Edward Snowden

#10. The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public doesn't know is what we ought to do about it.

Laurence Steinberg

#11. That's the definition of popularity. Something that literally resonates with many, many people.

Tod Machover

#12. Christianity is in its nature revolutionary.

Walter Rauschenbusch

#13. It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with possibility, and always inviting immediate action

Walter Rauschenbusch

#14. We are the market, we know what we want.

Joshua Greenberg

#15. The belief in a satanic kingdom exists today only where religious and theological traditions keep this believe alive.

Walter Rauschenbusch

#16. Motivation remains key to the marathon: the motivation to begin; the motivation to continue; the motivation never to quit.

Hal Higdon

#17. It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future.

Louise Leakey

#18. We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in full glow of love for others.

Walter Rauschenbusch

#19. The Weaver wove herself from the thread of night, hair of moonlight, skin of stars. So old. Without beginning or end.

Cornelia Funke

#20. The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.

Walter Rauschenbusch

#21. In a few years all our restless and angry hearts will be quiet in death, but those who come after us will live in the world which our sins have blighted or which our love of right has redeemed.

Walter Rauschenbusch

#22. In absolute and general perfection lies stifling monotony and death. Nature must have contrasts; she must have shadows as well as highlights; sorrow with happiness; both wrong and right; and sin as well as virtue.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#23. My laptop has freed me to travel.

Steven Pinker

#24. The influences that really make and mar human happiness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from trespassing, but it cannot put neighborly courtesy and goodwill into their relations.

Walter Rauschenbusch

#25. The Kingdom of God is not a matter of getting individuals to heaven, but of transforming the life on earth into the harmony of heaven.

Walter Rauschenbusch