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I am always amused by Christians who try so very hard to defend their position with reason and logic. They are like standing on top of a ladder with their tools and gadgets, straining their necks looking skywards for the leaks, trying to fix the roof amidst the rain. What they do not realize, of course, is that the roof isn't leaking -- it isn't there.
-Anon.
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Once in royal David's city
Stood a lowly cattle shed,
Where a Mother laid her Baby
In a manger for His bed:
Mary was that Mother mild,
Jesus Christ her little Child.
-Cecil Frances Alexander
Once in Royal David's City
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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
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Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
-Fred A. Allen
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At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I'd been baptized. If there was indeed a God at the end of my days, I hoped he didn't say, But you were never a Christian, so you're going the other way from heaven. If so, I was going to reply, You know what? You're right. Fine.
-Lance Armstrong
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Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.
-Matthew Arnold
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Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.
-James Baldwin
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In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukka' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukka!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!
-Dave Barry
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: the Son, O how unlike the Father! First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.
-William Blake
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Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
-William Blake
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
-William Blake
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Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community
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Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
-Phillips Brooks
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How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.
-Olympia Brown
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A lot of people say to me, Why did you kill Christ? I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know. We killed him because he didn't want to become a doctor, that's why we killed him.
-Lenny Bruce
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In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part.
-Michael Bruce
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I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.
-John Bunyan
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It has come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much a subject of inquiry; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious.
-Samuel Butler (poet)
The Analogy of Religion, 1756
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
-Samuel Butler
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If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.
-Samuel Butler
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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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