For maturity is marked by the preference to be defeated rather than have a subjective success. We as mature persons can worship only that which we are compelled to worship. If we are offered a man-made God and a self-answering prayer, we will rather have no God and no prayer. There can be no valid worship except that in which man is involuntarily bent by the presence of the Most Real, beyond his will.


Ch. XII : The Will as a Maker of Truth, p. 140 - The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912)

William Ernest Hocking Quotes

For maturity is marked by the preference to be defeated rather than have a subjective success. We as mature persons can worship only that which we...

For maturity is marked by the preference to be defeated rather than have a subjective success. We as mature persons can worship only that which we...

For maturity is marked by the preference to be defeated rather than have a subjective success. We as mature persons can worship only that which we...

For maturity is marked by the preference to be defeated rather than have a subjective success. We as mature persons can worship only that which we...