Felix Adler on theology

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.

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

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.

Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963

• Forgiveness
• Love

Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book III, Chapter 10, “Hope”

Other than heaven, the only place where one’s heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963