
“Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.”
As quoted in An Almanac of the Christian Church (1987) by William D. Blake.
"The Song of Songs and Lamentations", p. 8
“Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.”
As quoted in An Almanac of the Christian Church (1987) by William D. Blake.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 103.
“God is not a basis for interpreting the world, but the fact which really transforms it.”
"Socialism in the Theology of Karl Barth"
Source: Disgrace (1999), p. 3-4
Context: Although he devoted hours of each day to his new discipline, he finds its first premise, as enunciated in the Communications 101 handbook, preposterous: 'Human society has created language in order that we may communicate our thoughts, feelings, and intentions to each other.' His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origins of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.
The Hidden Wisdom In The Holy Bible (1963), Volume III
Science and Spirit interview (2004)
Context: The good stuff of most religions turns out to be a golden rule that defines a morality which allows humans to flourish in community. We come from a whole lineage of creatures who are robustly social and have communities that work, so you look at how their flourishing communities are set up. Are there parallels between how life works in a structured, non-human primate group, in a human community, and in the moral guidelines religion offers? It's not all that different as far as I can tell-there is hierarchy, strategic reciprocity, nurture and empathy.
Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), The Right Relation of Reason to Religion, p.255
Original: (de) Des Ritters Lied und Weise,
sie fand ich neu, doch nicht verwirrt;
verliess er unsre Gleise,
schritt er doch fest und unbeirrt.
Wollt ihr nach Regeln messen,
was nicht nach eurer Regeln Lauf,
der eignen Spur vergessen,
sucht davon erst die Regeln auf!
Source: Quotes from his operas, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Hans Sachs, Act 1, Scene 3
The Drunken Helmsman, p. 97
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)