Julia Ward Howe Quotes About Sacrifice

• Any religion which will sacrifice a certain set of human beings for the enjoyment or aggrandizement or advantage of another is no religion. It is a thing which may be allowed, but it is against true religion. Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.

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  Julia Ward Howe

  Sacrifice   Men   Brutality  

  "What is Religion?". Speech at the "Parliament of World Religions", Columbian Exposition, Chicago World's Fair, 1893.

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• There is no hell like that of a selfish heart, and there is no misfortune so great as that of not being able to make a sacrifice. These two thoughts come to me strongly this morning. It is something to have learned these truths so that we can never again doubt them.

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  Julia Ward Howe

  Morning   Selfish   Heart  

  Entry in the journal for August 22, 1875. "The Walk With God". Book by Julia Ward Howe, 1919.

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• I want to take the word Christianity back to Christ himself, back to that mighty heart whose pulse seems to throb through the world today, that endless fountain of charity out of which I believe has come all true progress and all civilization that deserves the name. I go back to that great Spirit which contemplated a sacrifice for the whole of humanity. That sacrifice is not one of exclusion, but of an infinite and endless and joyous inclusion. And I thank God for it.

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  Julia Ward Howe

  Heart   Sacrifice  

  "What is Religion?". Speech at the "Parliament of World Religions", Columbian Exposition, Chicago World's Fair, 1893.

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