Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself - at the expense of the new demands of each new generation.

- John Haynes Holmes

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

- John Haynes Holmes

The thought of immortality is as well founded as any other well authenticated postulate of the human reason.

- John Haynes Holmes

When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the poets have wri…

- John Haynes Holmes

Religion must be used in furthering great works of justice and reform. It must be used to establish right relations between different groups of men, …

- John Haynes Holmes

There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign pol…

- John Haynes Holmes

If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember…

- John Haynes Holmes

No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which con…

- John Haynes Holmes

Evil is a fact, not to be explained away, but to be accepted; and accepted, not to be endured, but to be conquered.

- John Haynes Holmes