Citas de Georgia Harkness

• The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

  Georgia Harkness

  Atheism, World, Judgment

  Georgia Elma Harkness (1937). “The Recovery of Ideals”

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• Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.

  Georgia Harkness

  Life Is, Eternity, Existence

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• One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.

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  Religion, Church, Worship

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• Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.

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  Prayer, Soul, Speak

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• The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.

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  Atheism, Doctrine, Sin

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• To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.

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  God, Prayer, Godly

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• The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own.

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  Sin, Forget, Confession

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• Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.

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  Religion, Phenomenon, Humans

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• To pray well one must pray much.

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  Prayer, Praying, Wells

  Georgia Elma Harkness (1948). “Prayer and the common life”

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• la verdad rara vez se encuentra en los extremos. Las verdades centrales pueden ser revolucionarias si se ponen en práctica.

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  Truth, Revolutionary, Found

  Georgia Elma Harkness (1949). “The Gospel and Our World”

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• se puede afirmar que las principales fuentes de miseria humana residen en la posesión excesiva, la posesión insuficiente y el uso imprudente de los bienes económicos.

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  Lying, Use, May

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• ... we all know how to pray better than we practice what we know!

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  Practice, Praying, Know How

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• 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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  Worst Enemy, Religion, Needs

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• 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.

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  Prayer, May, Process

  Georgia Elma Harkness (1937). “The Recovery of Ideals”

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• El peligro perpetuo que acecha a la religión es que sustituya la perspicacia y el poder proféticos por la gentileza y el esteticismo.

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  Religion, May, Danger

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• 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.

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  Prayer, Pain, Lying

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• 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!

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  Beautiful, Christian, Artist

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• Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power.

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  Life, Comfort, Needs

  Georgia Elma Harkness (1948). “Prayer and the common life”

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• 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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  Hands, Religion, Church

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• while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

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  Mean, Religion, Ethics

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• To discover, or recover, the sense of religious certainty one must worship.

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  Religious, Worship, Certainty

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• una sociedad enferma, a diferencia de un individuo enfermo, se encuentra mejor bajo la administración de muchos médicos.

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  Doctors, Sick, Reform

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• el tipo más común de pesimismo no es ni filosófico ni religioso: es el pesimismo del deseo frustrado. ... Es la burla cínica del hombre que, buscando rosas, sólo encuentra cenizas.

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  Religious, Philosophical, Men

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• 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.

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  Dios, Cristiano, Padre

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• love is always in danger of being sentimentalized.

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  Love Is, Danger

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