Felix Adler

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. ↗

— Felix Adler

#among #ceased #church #communities #diminishing

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

— Felix Adler

#church #continue #long #maintain #purity

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence. ↗

— Felix Adler

#assembled #celebrating #country #evening #hundred

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness. ↗

— Felix Adler

#should #simplicity

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole. ↗

— Felix Adler

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The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday. ↗

— Felix Adler

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

— Felix Adler

#devoid #exercises #meeting #our #simple

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. ↗

— Felix Adler

#dark #great #hero #kindles #life

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one. ↗

— Felix Adler

#public #teacher #thankless

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

— Felix Adler

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