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"Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution."
"Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities."
"To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish."
"You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place."
"Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman."
"... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself. It is the saddest thing in the world if a human being goes through life without discovering that he needs God!"
"Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign."
"Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education."
"I don't reject Christ. I love Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ."
"Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity."
"I've been winning with 70 percent of the vote, and if you look at my district, you know it's a majority Christian district, and yet we've still been winning with high margins, so I don't feel like I've had any disadvantages for being a minority."
"A woman decides about her body and her God is her business. Women who are pro-life can be just a good a Christian as a woman who is pro-choice and vice versa. You can be a good Christian and be pro-life. You can be a good Christian and be pro-choice."
"One of the best ways to walk in love is to be a blessing to other people or simply to help them."
"We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.” It was “illegal” to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler’s Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If todayI lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's antireligious laws."
"I come here today as a Christian, a person of faith who believes we've all been called to serve our fellow men and women and to honor God's creation. We want our girls to know right from wrong, to always tell the truth, to treat people no matter who they are with dignity and respect, no matter how different they may seem...because we want our girls to know we are all God's children and there's so much more that unites than divides us."
"Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe different."
"I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace."
"Be ever more obedient to God and He will save you."
"God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians."
"To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you."
