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There is no such thing as a solitary Christian.
English religious leader
1703 - 1791
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried.
English author & mystery novelist
1874 - 1936
Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
The so-called method of co-education is false in theory and hamful to Christian training.
It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.
The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
Joel: Ed, are you hallucinating?
Ed: Oh, yeah, but not right now.
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.
US educator & writer
1919 - 1988
If the belief [in Christianity] did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth!
German philosopher
1844 - 1900
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche - The Antichrist
German philosopher
1844 - 1900
The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit
1835 - 1910
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don?t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.
Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
US juvenile novelist
1832 - 1888
If a man cannot be a Christian in the place he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
US abolitionist & clergyman
1813 - 1887
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Thomas Paine - "Age of Reason"
US patriot & political philosopher
1737 - 1809
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit
1835 - 1910
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be--a christian.
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit
1835 - 1910
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit.
[W]e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
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
German philosopher
1844 - 1900
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
English author & mystery novelist
1874 - 1936
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Archbishop: a Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
US editor
1880 - 1956
The goal of every married couple, indeed, every Christian home, should be to make Christ the Head, the Counselor and the Guide.
What if there had been room at the inn?
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians...and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.
Ralph Reed - Executive Director
God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on top of them.
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
Everyman's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
Irish dramatist & socialist
1856 - 1950
In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.
When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities.
Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - a Christian.
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit
1835 - 1910
Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it.
My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
Christianity is a matter of willing God's will and through Christ become one with it.
For God's sake don't say yes until I've finished talking.
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
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
US Episcopal bishop
1835 - 1893
Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art.
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church it is a goodly Christian weapon.
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche - The Gay Science
German philosopher
1844 - 1900
The Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles.
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
The last Christian died on the cross.
When words fail, music speaks.
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.
George Carlin - You Are All Diseased
US comedian and actor
1937 -
There is no such thing as chance and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Joel Ed, are you hallucinating Ed Oh, yeah, but not right now.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.
I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer
1706 - 1790
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
English engraver, illustrator, & poet
1757 - 1827
Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.
Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.

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