Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by A. Powell Davies

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Last updated on December 5, 2024.
A. Powell Davies

Arthur Powell Davies was the minister of All Souls Church, Unitarian in Washington, D.C. from 1944 until his death in 1957. A prolific author of theological books and sermon collections, he came to national prominence in the U.S. through his liberal activism advocating civil rights for African-Americans and women and ethical stands against post-war nuclear proliferation and the methods employed by the American government during the era of McCarthyism.

Author | June 5, 1902 - September 26, 1957
The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.
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.
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.
You can't find God before an altar if that is the only place you look for him. — © A. Powell Davies
You can't find God before an altar if that is the only place you look for him.
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
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.
Life is just a chance to grow a soul.
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.
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