It is no accident that the basic roots of democracy are in human brotherhood, and brotherhood is meaningless apart from the divine fatherhood. (religion-online.org)
The hope of human brotherhood can only be realized when, and as, the divergent mind religions of authority become impregnated with, and overshadowed by, the unifying and ennobling religion of the spirit — the religion of personal spiritual experience. (redeeminggod.com)
The story, told in this way, is a remarkably familiar one: the «Victorian crisis of faith» and its resultant emphasis on the «spirit of human brotherhood» as an unarguably nonsectarian substitute for a failed religion. (firstthings.com)