"The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society; it is also important in setting the only possible legal and social condition for the creative health of serious religion itself."

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Source : Langdon Gilkey, Langdon Brown Gilkey (1985). “Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock”, p.11, University of Virginia Press

Langdon Brown Gilkey

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“I doubt myself a lot. And I'm very, very just overly critical.”

Source : "Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Doesn't Want To Sound 'Clean And Pretty'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 4, 2015.
“I was, as the prophet said, hungering and thirsting for righteousness. I found it at the eternal and material core of Christianity: body, blood, bread, wine, poured out freely, shared by all.”
“I have a particular style of writing and my voice sounds a particular way, which lends itself to a certain style.”
“Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?”

Source : Martin E. Marty (1993). “A Cry of Absence: Reflections for the Winter of the Heart”, Harper San Francisco
“To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.”
“We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.”
“It is the law of Spirit that we must be that which we would draw to us. If we would draw to us love, we must be love, be loving and kind; if we would have peace and harmony in our environment, we must establish it within ourselves.”

Source : Charles Fillmore, Myrtle Fillmore (1956). “Unity [devoted to Practical Christianity]”
“A revolution is not a dinner party [...] A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”

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