Walter Rauschenbusch Quote

The influence of Christianity in taming selfishness and stimulating the sympathetic affections, in creating a resolute sense of duty, a stanch love of liberty and independence, an irrepressible hunger for justice and a belief in the rights of the poor, has been so subtle and penetrating that no one can possibly trace its effects.... And yet human society has not been reconstituted in accordance with the principles of Jesus Christ.

p. 147-148 - Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907) - Ch.4 Why Has Christianity Never Undertaken the Work of Social Reconstruction?