72 Quotes by Felix Adler

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. The earth has been drenched with blood shed in this cause. . . .