Quotes from Walter Rauschenbusch
History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.
- Walter Rauschenbusch
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
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.
- Walter Rauschenbusch
Christianity is in its nature revolutionary
- Walter Rauschenbusch
History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.
- Walter Rauschenbusch
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
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
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
In a few years all our restless and angry hearts will be quiet in death, but those who come after us will live in the world which our sins have blighted or which our love of right has redeemed.
- Walter Rauschenbusch
Theology is not superior to the Gospel. It exists to aid the preaching of salvation. Its business is to make the essential facts and principles of Christianity so simple and clear, so adequate and mighty, that all who preach or teach the Gospel, both ministers and laymen, can draw on its stores and deliver a complete and unclouded Christian message.
- Walter Rauschenbusch