Ethical movement Quotes

“Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island”

“Wikipedia: Ethical movement”

“Ethical Culture Society of Westchester”

“The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act So As To Elicit the Best In Others and Thereby In Thy Self.”

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

“Wikicommons: Ethical Culture”

“Four Types of Religious Humanism by Joseph Chuman, 2004.”

“A Concept Map for Ethical Culture, retrieved: 2013-07-09”

“Ethical Culture Leaders Statement 2008”

“The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not the highest Goodness, but higher than goodness.”

“Society for Ethical Culture by Edward William Bennett in Jewish Encyclopedia”

“In order to join vigorously in the moral work of the world I must believe that somehow the best I can accomplish will endure, will leave its trace on things, will aid the final consummation.”

“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.”

“What I state as certain is certain for me. It has approved itself as such in my experience. Let others consult their experience, and see how far it tallies with that which is here set forth.”

“ The Essential Difference Between Ethical Societies and The Churches - Adler's vision of what Ethical Societies were about, 1905.”

“Religion is a wizard, a sibyl. She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration. She faces a sky blood-red with sunset colours that deepen into darkness, and prophesies dawn. She faces death, and prophesies life.”

“We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best possessions, the truest thought, the noblest sentiments of the age in which we live.”

“It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far as its teachings serve to stimulate and purify our moral aspirations does it deserve to retain its ascendency over mankind.”

“The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism. They are to consist of a lecture mainly, and, as a pleasing and grateful auxiliary, of music to elevate the heart and give rest to the feelings.”

“It may be impossible for a man by merely willing it to add wings to his body, but it is possible for any man, by merely willing it, to add wings to his soul. This perennial miracle of the moral nature is capable of happening at any time.”