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 RauschenbuschHistory is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.
Walter RauschenbuschTheologians 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 RauschenbuschIt 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