Arthur Powell Davies (A. Powell Davies) Quotes

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

Arthur Powell Davies

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  Arthur Powell Davies
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