"Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at the basis of those two things. In this world we can now begin a little to understand things, and a little to master them by the help of science, which has forced its way step by step against the Christian religion, against the churches, and against the opposition of all the old precepts."
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"A lotta Christians wear crosses 'round their necks; do you think if Jesus comes back he ever wants to see another cross?"
"I wish I could meet a Christian who would proselytize to me, but they keep running away from me. I wanna talk to you all."
"A Christian is someone who has turned to God from idols."
"Avail yourself of the greatest privilege this side of heaven. Jesus Christ died to make this communion and communication with the Father possible."
""Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation."
"Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better."
"Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it."
"The world expects of Christians that they will raise their voices so loudly and clearly and so formulate their protest that not even the simplest man can have the slightest doubt about what they are saying. Further, the world expects of Christians that they will eschew all fuzzy abstractions and plant themselves squarely in front of the bloody face of history. We stand in need of folk who have determined to speak directly and unmistakably and come what may, to stand by what they have said."
"The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition."
"The cross does not give us a minor shift or two with regard to a few of our ethical and moral and religious values. The cross radically disrupts the very center and citadel of your life from self to Christ. And if the cross has not done that, you're not a Christian!"
"I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race."
"No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul."
"Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example?"
"Love, in the words of the Master, is the shining commandment: LOVE ONE ANOTHER."
"Change can be accomplished most of all through the power of prayer, because with God all things are possible."
"Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature, so that they would wonder and be astonished at seeing not great but unusual things, who are unmoved by things daily seen. For the government of the world is a greater miracle than feeding five thousand men from five loaves; yet at the former no one wonders, the latter astonishes all men: not as a greater wonder, but as a rarer."
"A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according to God, by Whom the world itself was made; for he is warned by the precept of the apostle and faithfully hears what has been said, 'Beware that no one deceive you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the elements of the world'"
"Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been revenged, nor His innocence vindicated?"
"Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for.""