The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer. Maude Royden More Quotes by Maude Royden More Quotes From Maude Royden When you have nothing left but God, you become aware that God is enough. Maude Royden leftenough Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal. Maude Royden eternalinspirational War may claim for itself the power to destroy and to clear the ground. It can never construct or create. It is not the means by which ideals are imposed. There is ultimately no way of combating a wrong idea but the setting forth of a right one. Maude Royden warmeanideas It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which suggests a difference in the spiritual ideals, the spheres, or the potentialities of men and women. Maude Royden teachingspiritualmen We cannot break God's laws - but we can break ourselves against them. Maude Royden breaklaw If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen. Maude Royden womenwantinspirational There is a choice before us as people who live in a great world, so knit together that even America cannot stand quite outside it, or act as though it were situated somewhere on the moon! That choice is a choice - let me put it quite brutally - between heaven and hell. ... But it is not a choice between a heaven or a hell beyond the grave; it is a choice between making heaven or making hell on this side of the grave, and in this world, here and now. Maude Royden moonamericapeople The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them. Maude Royden godlawreligion we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been treated as a subject fit only for furtive whispers or silly jokes, is in fact one of the greatest powers in human nature, and that its misuse is indeed 'the expense of spirit in a waste of shame. Maude Royden sufferingsillysex The corruption of the best is the worst. Maude Royden corruptionevillatin It is possible for science to make the world like the Garden of Eden! Amen. But it is also possible, and sometimes it seems more probable, that science will make the world a very good imitation of hell. Maude Royden gardenedenscience The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war. Maude Royden fearplaywar
