7 Quotes by John Haynes Holmes

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

When I say ‘God’ it is poetry and not theology.

No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war.

Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself – at the expense of the new demands of each new generation.

Evil is a fact, not to be explained away, but to be accepted; and accepted, not to be endured, but to be conquered.

If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.

The thought of immortality is as well founded as any other well authenticated postulate of the human reason.