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"...like a magnetic compass turning north, I always tried to head in the direction of the better, which is the direction to God. ...the directions that appeared to lead away from Christianity led me deeper into it."
"If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance."
"The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence."
"Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot"
"Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself."
"Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception."
"Socialism appeals to me. It's like imposed Christianity. You've got to share."
"One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it."
"Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label."
"Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown."
"Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life."
"My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out ourselves? If it were wholly comprehensible, then it would just be another philosophy."
"He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . ."
"Christianity is a fighting religion."
"The only thing Christianity can not be...is moderately important."
"Jesus was either a Liar, a Lunatic, or Lord"
"In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all."
"Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing."
"Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage."