For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. — Felix Adler
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar’s life, the peaceful walks — Felix Adler
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world — Felix Adler
Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in — Felix Adler
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. — Felix Adler
The platform of an ethical society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon. — Felix Adler
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. — Felix Adler
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. — Felix Adler
Love of country is like love of woman — he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good. — Felix Adler
Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms. — Felix Adler
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state. — Felix Adler
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. — Felix Adler
To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one’s own, is ever the beginning of one’s real ethical development. — Felix Adler
We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water — Felix Adler
The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general — Felix Adler
Religion is a wizard, a sibyl . . . She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration. — Felix Adler