Jenkin Lloyd Jones Quotes


Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be.


Citations

Jones, Jenkin Lloyd. Nuggets from a Welsh Mine. Unity Publishing Co., 1902.

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Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
  • Born: November 14, 1843
  • Died: September 12, 1918
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Clergyman

Jenkin Lloyd Jones was a Unitarian minister in the United States, and also the uncle of Frank Lloyd Wright. He founded All Souls Unitarian Church in Chicago, Illinois, as well as its community outreach organization, the Abraham Lincoln Centre. A radical modernist, he joined the "Unity Men" and stressed a creedless "ethical basis" as the common element for churches. He tried to move Unitarianism away from a Christian focus and became a prominent pacifist at the time of World War I. He was a founder and long-time editor of Unity, a liberal religious weekly magazine.