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Top Best Arthur Powell Davies Quotes

Arthur Powell Davies was the minister of All Souls Church, Unitarian in Washington, D.C. and he was named as great speaker, leader. Besides he was the author of The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Life is just a chance to grow a soul.

Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.

A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.

Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.

There is no God in the sky. God is in the heart that loves the sky's blueness. There is no army of angels, no hosts of seraphim and no celestial hierarchy. All this is man's imaginings.

When sorrow comes, let us accept it simply, as a part of life. Let the heart be open to pain; let it be stretched by it. All the evidence we have says that this is the better way. An open heart never grows bitter. Or if it does, it cannot remain so.

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.

You can't find God before an altar if that is the only place you look for him.

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