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• This is something that I'm sure I'd have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize and prostelytize. There's the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people haven't embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior that they're going to hell.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

  "Obama on faith". The Patheos Interview, www.patheos.com. March 27, 2004.

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• True love blooms when we care more about another person than we care about ourselves. That is Christ's great atoning example for us, and it ought to be more evident in the kindness we show, the respect we give, and the selflessness and courtesy we employ in our personal relationships.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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• Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

  William Penn

  Love Is, Lessons, Care

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear from me: and enough, too, in their opinion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Believe, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”

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• Jesus was either a Liar, a Lunatic, or Lord

  C. S. Lewis

  Jesus, Liars, Lord

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• We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Mind Blowing, Islam

  The President's News Conference With President Abdullah Gul of Turkey in Ankara, Turkey, April 6, 2009.

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• Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

  John Lennon

  Jesus, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Interview with Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, March 04, 1966.

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• In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more and nothing I have done that makes You love me less.

  J. D. Greear

  Love, God, Jesus

  J. D. Greear (2011). “Gospel”, p.40, B&H Publishing Group

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• The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

  William Blake

  Faith, Forgiveness, Christian Inspirational

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.201, Univ of California Press

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• Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Faith, Philosophy, Good Christian

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Aids to reflection in the formation of a manly character on the several grounds of prudence, morality, and religion”, p.193

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• Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Law, Presidential

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Reports of Cases Determined in the General Court of Virginia: From 1730, to 1740; and from 1768, to 1772”, p.140

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• The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Real, Heart, Light

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• Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

  John Burroughs

  Years, Civilization, Religion

  John Burroughs (1904). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

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• I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

  Lord Byron

  Atheist, Believe, Mind

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• We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

  John Lennon

  Music, Jesus, Rocks

  Interview with Maureen Cleave in Evening Standard 4 Mar. 1966. Cf. Zelda Fitzgerald

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• I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Faith, Christian

  As quoted by William Rees-Mogg in "The Times", April 4, 2005.

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• Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Wall

  Reply to Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, and Stephen S. Nelson (committee of the Danbury, Conn., Baptist Association), 1 Jan. 1802

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• You might as well try to hear without ears or breathe without lungs, as to try to live a Christian life without the Spirit of God in your heart.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Heart, Trying

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• Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Jesus, Ignorance

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• His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon of malignant spirit. It would be more pardonable to believe in no God at all, than to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Believe, Men

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• If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, Born Again, Positive Atheism

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Character, Men, Should Have

  Benjamin Franklin (1962). “Representative selections: with introduction, bibliography, and notes”

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• There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.

  Hannah More

  Christian, Men, Infidelity

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 348), 1895.

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• The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ, None of us has? The Christian is one who has found the right road.

  Charles L. Allen

  Faith, Christian, Gone

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• Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of a nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?  That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation?  Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth?  That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?

  John Quincy Adams

  Government, Independence, Progress

  Speech on Independence Day at Newburyport, MA, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 04, 1837.

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