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  Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Kindness, Love Is

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Pregnancy, Religion

  George Whitefield, G. B. (1829). “The Revived Puritan. Select Works of ... G. W., ... Containing a Memoir of His Life, Etc. [Edited by G. B.]”, p.245

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• There are a lot of Christians who are halfway fellows. They stand in the door, holding on to the Church with one hand while they play with the toys of the world with the other. They are in the doorway and we can't bring sinners in.

  Mordecai Ham

  Christian, Doors, Hands

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• I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Change, Religious, Men

  Letter to Benjamin Rush, 23 Sept. 1800

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• No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

  William Ralph Inge

  Christian, Optimism, Grace

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• God hates the LUKEWARM GOSPEL OF HALF-TRUTHS that is now spreading over the Globe. This gospel says, 'Just believe in Jesus and you'll be Saved. There's nothing more to it.' It ignores the Whole Counsel of God, which speaks of Repenting from former Sins, of Taking up your Cross, of being conformed to the Image of Christ by the refining work of the Holy Spirit. It is totally silent about the Reality of Hell and an After-Death Judgment.

  David Wilkerson

  Death, God, Faith

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• If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.

  Benjamin Rush

  Bible, Christian, Education

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• God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools...and He has not been disappointed....If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

  Antonin Scalia

  God, Christian, Wise

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• If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.

  Barack Obama

  Christian Values, Mind Blowing, Islam

  Interview with Cathleen Falsani, www.beliefnet.com. 2008.

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• The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Jesus, Atheist

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1970, Library of America

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• Christianity is not a message which has to be believed, but an experience of faith that becomes a message.

  Edward Schillebeeckx

  Faith, Religious, Believe

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• A few persons of an odious and despised country could not have filled the world with believers, had they not shown undoubted credentials from the divine person who sent them on such a message.

  Joseph Addison

  Country, World, Messages

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1877). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.120

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• He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Anger, Humility, Church

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1839). “Aids to reflection in the formation of a manly character on the several grounds of prudence, morality and religion”, p.72

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• Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain.

  John Keble

  Looks, Gains, Triumph

  John Keble (1842). “The Christian year [by J. Keble, ed. by G.W. Doane]. 1st Amer. ed. 3rd Amer. ed”, p.273

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• Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

  Elbert Hubbard

  People, Heaven, Literature

  Elbert Hubbard, Charles Carroll Albertson (1909). “Joint Debate Hubbard-Albertson: Question: Resolved "That Christianity is Declining."”

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• Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wise, Freedom, Men

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• Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God; and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Liberty, Principles

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.152

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• But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery.

  Adolf Hitler

  Ideas, Sick, Brain

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Secret Conversations, 1941-1944”

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• Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Stupidity, Religion, Might

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• Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Perfection, Humanity, Religion

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I: 1731-1772”, p.269, Princeton University Press

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• Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.

  Pat Buchanan

  Crazy, Patriotic, Men

  Speech to the Christian Coalition, www.nytimes.com. September 12, 1993.

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• Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  "Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson". Book by Thomas Jefferson, 1821.

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• I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Death, Wisdom, Religious

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• Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Christian, Believe, Mean

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