Sunday, March 14, 2010

Rufus Jones on Liberal Religion

"Pursuit of truth, appreciation of beauty, dedication to the welfare of others, love for another, are all religious agencies.

They all enlarge and liberate the personal life, they all bring it into closer unity with the whole of reality,

they all give it a touch of consecration and bring a genuine experience of joy, and yet each one of these agencies and all of them combined may fall short of the complte meaning of religion.

The reason why they may, and sometimes do, fall short of the real goal is that men draw too narrow a circle and to terminate the aim on an object which is not rich and inclusive enough to meet all the needs of the human soul."

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