Edwin Markham Quotes

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

The temporal power and the priesthood relate to each other as body and soul; they are necessary for state order just as body and soul are necessary in a living man. It is in their linkage and harmony that the well-being of a state lies

During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.

Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments.

Nature moves towards balance.

Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator?

My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order.

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.

Steady.

Growth may be everything, but it’s not the only thing.

Now who can hear Christ declare that his kingdom is not of this world, and yet believe that this blending of church and state together can be pleasing to him?

A party of order and stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values.

Secularization is the process by which certain responsibilities pass from ecclesiastical to political authorities.

We must stabilize and strive for normalcy.

The Christians of this century (the seventh) seem by their superstitious doctrine to exclude from the kingdom of heaven such as had not contributed by their offerings to augment the riches of the clergy or the church

It is hard to make an empty sack stand upright.

The President is the Theologian in Chief.

Two eyes are given for a reason. One eye to always look at the opportunity. The second eye to always keep looking at the challenges. Because if you don't balance both, it's very easy to get carried away one way or the other. And it's when you balance the two that you find the most sustainable model.

Getting the balance right in everything is all of football and all of sport.