“Let us do our thinking on these great questions”

—  Walter Rauschenbusch

Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Introduction, p.xv
Context: Let us do our thinking on these great questions, not with our eyes fixed on our bank account, but with a wise outlook on the fields of the future and with the consciousness that the spirit of the Eternal is seeking to distil from our lives, some essence of righteousness, before they pass away.

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