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Source: Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts (1929), p. 80

Religion

“The wastage from economic conflict is so titanic under individualism that even if gross productivity should be reduced somewhat under socialization of the basic industries, the mass of people would nevertheless be better off because of the diminished conflict and resultant devastation.”

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Property (1935)

People

“Through every legitimate educational procedure the truth must be driven home to the masses of people that the race of armaments is not a means of defense but a race to mutual suicide.”

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What Does God Want Us to Do About Russia? (1948)

People , Truth , Education , Home

“During wartime, no belligerent nation will admit any limitation of its supreme sovereignty. Each nation is a law unto itself Treaties and international laws are sometimes observed in war, if their observance does not stand in the way of winning. But tragic experience indicates that the most sacred obligations are utterly disregarded when their observance means losing the war.”

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"What is War?" (1924)

War , Law , Way

“The tragedy of tragedies is that man continues to live in poverty when he might have riches, in weakness when he might have strength, in sorrow when he might have joy, in despair when he might have hope.”

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Source: Something More, A Consideration of the Vast, Undeveloped Resources of Life (1920), p. 75

Hope , Joy , Despair

“At every stage Jesus was confronted with the necessity of choosing. More and more clearly he saw the vast gulf between his ideal and the practices of those about him. In moments of exaltation he caught a vision of life as it ought to be and might be. …From each succeeding experience of communion with God the conviction became more intense that love alone can bring reconciliation between man and man, and between man and God.”

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Source: Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts (1929), p. 31

Love , Life , God

“Then came the political campaign of 1920 with its bitter personal feuds, as a result of which the real underlying issues were obscured by passion, misrepresentation and downright falsehood.”

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An American Peace Policy (1925)

Passion , Personality

“Asceticism may offer a way of escape from the temptations that come from association with one's fellows and bring a sense of release and contentment. But the universal family can never be built by hermits. Contact may lead to contamination, but it is essential to redemption. Love never flees from the object of its affection. Where pain is most severe and sorrow most bitter, there love is most solicitous and untiring.”

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Source: Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts (1929), p. 32

Love , Pain , Family , Way

“Ideals as to what should be the attitude of different nations and different classes toward each other, Christian people already have. Surely it is high time that we should also have definite ideas as to the weapons we are justified in using in seeking to bring about conditions that seem to us to be desirable.”

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Foreword p. 9
The Sword or the Cross, Which Should be the Weapon of the Christian Militant? (1921)

People , Idea , Time

“Hatred is an essential part of war. During the conflict it is regarded as treason to "love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you." In war, the enemy are regarded as targets, not as sons of God.”

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"What is War?" (1924)

Love , God , Hate , War

“All of our boasted wealth, wonderful inventions and incalculable mechanical power will prove to be an unstable foundation if we continue to dwell together in strife—individual against individual, class against class, nation against nation.”

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"The Commercial Motive" ibid.

Wealth

“The totalitarian nature of modern war renders invalid the distinction between combatants and non-combatants.”

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Must We Go to War? (1937)

War , Nature

“Jesus can aid us at three points: by helping us to avoid hatred, to repudiate violence, and to increase our willingness to accept whatever suffering comes from this combination of refusing to submit to evil and of refraining from hatred and violence.”

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The Personality of Jesus (1932)

Suffering , Evil , Help

“Continued adherence to the doctrine of military necessity will lead to mutual suicide.”

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Must We Go to War? (1937)

Suicide

“Preparedness to use atomic bombs against men and women and children is a proclamation of faith, a confession of confidence in the rightness and effectiveness of human slaughter as a means of seeking safety and of maintaining justice.”

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Now is the Time to Prevent a Third World War (1950)

Women , Men , Children , Faith

“Not even when the political freedom of a nation is at stake should the Christian militant make use of an unchristian weapon. The following of Jesus Christ is infinitely more important than the maintenance of political liberty at the expense of his principles.”

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Source: The Sword or the Cross, Which Should be the Weapon of the Christian Militant? (1921), Ch.6 p. 100

Freedom , Christ

“The ideals and aspirations of the American people with regard to world peace can never be fully realized until the United States is a full-fledged member of the League.”

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An American Peace Policy (1925)

People , World , Peace

“When the Lord's Prayer is prayed with insight it becomes a petition for the abolition of capitalism and the supplanting of the existing economic order with a society which is consistent with the religion of Jesus.”

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Individualism and Socialism (1933)

Religion

“When we are told that the record is scanty and unreliable, we can reply, with the support of the highest scholarship, that we know enough to be sure of his basic ideas and experiences, and that his personality looms up more brilliantly than the Morning Star.”

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The Personality of Jesus (1932)

Star , Idea , Support , Personality

“Socialized industries should be governed by boards of directors composed of representatives of engineers, workers, and consumers.”

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Property (1935)