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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 as this awkward historical fact.

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 written about flowers and birds and skies and seas and saviors of the race, and God - whoever He may be - has at one time or another reached my soul!...The theologians gather dust upon the shelves of my library but the poets are stained with my fingers and blotted by my tears.

John Haynes Holmes

This, now, is the judgement of our scientific age—the third reaction of man upon the universe! This universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.

John Haynes Holmes

John Haynes Holmes

John Haynes Holmes

Born: November 29, 1879

Died: April 3, 1964 (aged 84)

Bio: John Haynes Holmes was a prominent Unitarian minister, pacifist, and co-founder of the NAACP and the ACLU. He is noted for his anti-war activism.

Known for:

Is Death The End? (1915)
New wars for old (1916)
Through Gentile eyes (1938)

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