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Felix Adler

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

Religion , State , Church , Purity

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

Society , Fire

" You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done. "

Houses

" We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended. "

Measure

" The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. "

Action , Past

" 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. "

World , Men , Light

" The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect. "

Will , Man , Right , Thought , Freedom , Diversity , Progress , Intellect

" The family is the school of duties - founded on love. "

Love , Family

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

Meeting

" Simplicity should not be identified with bareness. "

Simplicity

" Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. "

Virtue , Public

" An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment. "

World , Desire , Gain , Possession

" Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. "

Religion , Faith , Improvement

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