Everett Dean Martin Quote

It is the place of liberal Christianity to state the supremacy of the everlasting ends of life over the means of living, of the believer over the thing believed, the man over the system, the worker over the product. We are not liberals because we believe less but because we believe more. We dare to believe without an infallible guarantee of the substance of our faith in a moral issue. It is not an historical opinion. Liberalism is not a new system of dogma, but a new point of view.... The place of liberal Christianity is to restore to the moderm man his spiritual integrity.

"New Pastor in Initial Sermon," The Register and Leader (Des Moines), January 16, 1911, p. 5