Likeness to God
Great Quotes: Religion need to aim to "turn men's
aspirations and efforts to that perfection of the soul, which constitutes it a
bright image of God."
Like so many of the other paradigm
breaking speeches, this one took place at an ordination, this time in 1828.
The primary point is that true
religion consists in becoming more and more like God, aka “the Supreme Being”,
not out of fear, but rather as “partakers of divinity” by growing in “likeness
to God”. He spends a considerable
amount of time backing down from the notion that “likeness” is the same as
“same as”. Humanity is not the
same as god, rather similar to and able to self-direct to become more similar.
Can I just say here that they talked
A LOT!. I found this rather
tedious. He must have used the word “I” 1,000 times.
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