Henry Adams Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living--of every statesman--every literary, and every scientific authority, without in the least changing the social situation. Artists, of course, disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church. Corporations are not elevators, but levellers, as I see them.

  Henry Adams

  Cutting, Artist, Power

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.523, Harvard University Press

• The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church.

  Henry Adams

  Church, Century, Servant

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1678, Open Road Media

• Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.

  Henry Adams

  Fighting, Men, Soul And Body

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.13, Penguin

• Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

  Henry Adams

  Artist, Long Ago, Church

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.523, Harvard University Press

• There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum till the last atom of matter is reached; reflect and refine till the last element of thought is made clear; the church now knows with the certainty of science what she once knew only by the certainty of faith, that you will find enthroned behind all thought and matter only one central idea--that idea which the church has never ceased to embody--I AM!

  Henry Adams

  Ideas, Church, Atoms

  Henry Adams (2015). “Esther”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

• The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism of yesterday and the materialism of today, were all emanations of divine thought, doing their appointed work. It was the duty of the church to deal with them all, not as though they existed through a power hostile to the deity, but as instruments of the deity to work out his unrevealed ends.

  Henry Adams

  Play, Hymns, Yesterday

  Henry Adams (2014). “Esther”, p.5, Lulu Press, Inc

• The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own. You were and are and ever will be only a part of the supreme I AM, of which the church is the emblem.

  Henry Adams

  Philosophy, Church, Answers

  Henry Adams (2015). “Esther”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

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