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"The Christian cannot be satisfied so long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of connection with Christianity. Christianity must pervade not merely all nations but also all of human thought." »J. Gresham Machen
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"He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance." »George Bernard Shaw
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"Christianity is a matter of willing God's will and through Christ become one with it." »John Leax
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"Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art." »Robin Tyler
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"The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible." »Mark Twain
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"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness." »William Blake
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"Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence." »Jacques Maritain
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"Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune." »Phillips Brooks
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"If the belief [in Christianity] did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth!" »Friedrich Nietzsche, "Human, All Too Human" page 87, #120.
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"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." »Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it." »Claire Huchet Bishop
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"People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die." »Saki
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"He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world." »Benjamin Franklin
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"It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable." »Horace Bushnell
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"The "highest" states of mind held up before mankind by Christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy." »Friedrich Nietzsche, The AntiChrist
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"The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other." »Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville
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"There is no leveler like Christianity, but it levels by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table-land of a true character and of undying hope both for this world and the next." »Johathan Edwards
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"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important." »Clive Staples Lewis
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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
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"I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether." »Neil Postman
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""Obviously Christianity is the one true faith, but if Islam is correct, u are fucked. I mean you are power fucked." - John Oliver to Alex McFarland" »John Oliver
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"Present your religion to a little child, set him in the midst of those who profess it. If it frightens him, and freezes the smiles on his lips, then whatever sort of religion it is, it is not Christianity." »Unknown
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"Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path." »Real Live Preacher
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"The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods." »John Calvin
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"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried." »G. K. Chesterton
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"Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects" »James Madison
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