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"Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government."
"Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars"
"Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of beginning it; but it belongs to government alone, when it becomes inevitable."
"Christians often threaten atheists with eternal torture. But if we say that they're delusional, they will tell us that we're being rude."
"There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory. The invention of hell measured by our Christianity of today, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the deity nor his son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilled."
"I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble."
"The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made tremendously definite - the Christian must forgive his brother man all crimes he can imagine and commit, and all insults he can conceive and utter - forgive these injuries how many times? - seventy times seven - another way of saying there shall be no limit to this forgiveness. That is the spirit and the law of Christianity."
"The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence."
"The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross."
"I know not a better rule of reading the Scripture, than to read it through from beginning to end and when we have finished it once, to begin it again. We shall meet with many passages which we can make little improvement of, but not so many in the second reading as in the first, and fewer in the third than in the second: provided we pray to him who has the keys to open our understandings, and to anoint our eyes with His spiritual ointment."
"If you're going to be a Christian, you're going to change. You're going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to."
"It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks."
"After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry and a revelation."
"God is able to do anything. All things are possible with Him, but we must not quit praying."
"What does God require of us? Our part is to believe. Our work is to trust the Lord. His requirement is that we let go and let God."
"As a Christian, instead of concentrating on how you feel, focus on what you know to be truth from the Word of God."
"She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth." "Um, okay. So what is it?" "Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.""
"The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust."
"It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the same time all that is in Christ."
"How is God's name hallowed among us? When both our doctrine and living are truly Christian."
