Charles Fletcher Dole: Quotes about the world

Charles Fletcher Dole was Unitarian minister, speaker, and writer. Explore interesting quotes on world.
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“Is it not plain that the law of good will has a universal application? There is no event, no act, no word, no supreme crisis of life in which man may let the good will go, and turn on the forces of ill will, egotism, and selfishness. Letting the good will go out of him, he lapses straightway into the child or the savage. Keeping the flow of the serene good will in his soul, he walks the earth, fearless, erect, with God’s sunshine on his face. To live thus is the essence of civilization; the individual and the social welfare are thus secured and harmonized. To live thus is practical religion; the more thoroughly we try, test, and experience it, the more completely it will be found to grow out of, and to illustrate, a Theology, that is, a divine plan of the universe. This Theology matches the needs of civilized men in a civilized world.”

Charles Fletcher Dole

The Theology of Civilization (May 1899)

“It is absurd to suppose, if this is God’s world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.”

Charles Fletcher Dole

The Coming People (1897).

“Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before.”

Charles Fletcher Dole

The Spirit of Democracy (1906).

“It is a world of startling possibilities.”

Charles Fletcher Dole

The Hope of Immortality (Ingersoll Lecture, 1906).