Walter Rauschenbusch Quotes

• The Kingdom of God is not a matter of getting individuals to heaven, but of transforming the life on earth into the harmony of heaven.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Life, Christian, Religious

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• Whoever uncouples the religious and the social life has not understood Jesus. Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  God, Faith, Christian

  "Christianity and the Social Crisis". Book by Walter Rauschenbusch, 1913.

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• We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in full glow of love for others.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Wedding, Realizing, Reception

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• It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with possibility, and always inviting immediate action

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Kingdoms, Action, Possibility

  Walter Rauschenbusch (2008). “A Gospel for the Social Awakening: Selections from the Writings of Walter Rauschenbusch”, p.45, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  History, Humanity, Fundamentals

  Walter Rauschenbusch (2009). “Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 21st Century: The Classic That Woke Up the Church”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• God, we thank you for this earth, our homes; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the salt sea and the running water, for the everlasting hills and the never resting winds, for trees and the common grass underfoot. We thank you for our senses by which we hear the songs of birds, and see the splendor of the summer fields, and taste of the autumn fruits, and rejoice in the feel of the snow, and smell the breath of the spring. Grant us a heart wide open to all this beauty; and save our souls from being so blind that we pass unseeing when even the common thorn bush is aflame with your glory.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Summer, Running, Song

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• Christianity is in its nature revolutionary

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Revolutionary, Christianity

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• Those influences which really make and mar human happiness and greatness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from trespassing, but it cannot put neighborly courtesy and good-will into their relations.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Happiness, Law, Mars

  "Christianity and the Social Crisis".

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• The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.

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  Motivational, Happiness, Real

  Walter Rauschenbusch (2011). “Christianizing the Social Order”, p.248, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.

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  Children, Trying, Doctrine

  Walter Rauschenbusch (2013). “A Theology for the Social Gospel”, p.8, Ravenio Books

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• Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Jesus, Teaching, Hesitation

  Walter Rauschenbusch (2003). “Christianity and the Social Crisis”, p.91, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The belief in a satanic kingdom exists today only where religious and theological traditions keep this believe alive.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Religious, Believe, Satanic

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