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*“And for a long time there will live on earth those timid, fearful, and hesitant individuals who will prefer thus to secure their religious consolations, even though, in so casting their lot with the '''religions of authority''', they compromise the '''sovereignty of personality''', debase the '''dignity of self-respect''', and utterly surrender the right to participate in that most thrilling and inspiring of all possible human experiences: the '''personal quest for truth''', the exhilaration of facing the '''perils of intellectual discovery''', the determination to explore the realities of '''personal religious experience''', the supreme satisfaction of experiencing the personal triumph of the actual realization of the victory of '''spiritual faith''' over '''intellectual doubt''' as it is honestly won in the supreme adventure of all human existence -- '''man seeking God, for himself and as himself, and finding him'''.

*“And for a long time there will live on earth those timid, fearful, and hesitant individuals who will prefer thus to secure their religious consolations, even though, in so casting their lot with the '''religions of authority''', they compromise the '''sovereignty of personality''', debase the '''dignity of self-respect''', and utterly surrender the right to participate in that most thrilling and inspiring of all possible human experiences: the '''personal quest for truth''', the exhilaration of facing the '''perils of intellectual discovery''', the determination to explore the realities of '''personal religious experience''', the supreme satisfaction of experiencing the personal triumph of the actual realization of the victory of '''spiritual faith''' over '''intellectual doubt''' as it is honestly won in the supreme adventure of all human existence -- '''man seeking God, for himself and as himself, and finding him'''.

*“The '''religion of the spirit''' means effort, struggle, conflict, faith, determination, love, loyalty, and progress. The '''religion of the mind''' -- the theology of authority -- requires little or none of these exertions from its formal believers. Tradition is a safe refuge and an easy path for those fearful and halfhearted souls who instinctively shun the spirit struggles and mental uncertainties associated with those faith voyages of daring adventure out upon the high seas of unexplored truth in search for the farther shores of spiritual realities as they may be discovered by the '''progressive human mind''' and experienced by the '''evolving human soul'''.”

*“The '''religion of the spirit''' means effort, struggle, conflict, faith, determination, love, loyalty, and progress. The '''religion of the mind''' -- the theology of authority -- requires little or none of these exertions from its formal believers. Tradition is a safe refuge and an easy path for those fearful and halfhearted souls who instinctively shun the spirit struggles and mental uncertainties associated with those faith voyages of daring adventure out upon the '''high seas of unexplored truth''' in search for the farther '''shores of spiritual realities''' as they may be discovered by the '''progressive human mind''' and experienced by the '''evolving human soul'''.”

*"At Jerusalem the religious leaders have formulated the various doctrines of their traditional teachers and the prophets of other days into an established system of intellectual beliefs, a '''religion of authority'''. The appeal of all such religions is largely to the mind. And now are we about to enter upon a deadly conflict with such a religion since we will so shortly begin the bold proclamation of a '''new religion''' -- a religion which is not a religion in the present-day meaning of that word, a religion that makes its chief appeal to the '''divine spirit''' of my Father that resides in the mind of man. '''A religion that shall derive its authority from the fruits of its acceptance''' that will so certainly appear in the personal experience of all who really and truly become believers in the truths of this '''higher spiritual communion'''."

*"At Jerusalem the religious leaders have formulated the various doctrines of their traditional teachers and the prophets of other days into an established system of intellectual beliefs, a '''religion of authority'''. The appeal of all such religions is largely to the mind. And now are we about to enter upon a deadly conflict with such a religion since we will so shortly begin the bold proclamation of a '''new religion''' -- a religion which is not a religion in the present-day meaning of that word, a religion that makes its chief appeal to the '''divine spirit''' of my Father that resides in the mind of man. '''A religion that shall derive its authority from the fruits of its acceptance''' that will so certainly appear in the personal experience of all who really and truly become believers in the truths of this '''higher spiritual communion'''."