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Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only ‘mouth honour’ and that decreasingly.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963They Asked for a Paper
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936In The Illustrated London News (11 August 1928)
What is more harmful than any vice? Active pity for all the failures and all the weak: Christianity.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Anti-Christ
The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.
Bill Maherborn 1956Be More Cynical (2000)
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
Larry Wilde1928–2023The Merry Book of Christmas
- Children
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Education and the Social Order (1932), p. 110
The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.
Fulton J. Sheen1895–1979
I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
- Charity
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
William Jennings Bryan1860–1925
The puritanism of Christianity has played havoc with the moderation that an enlightened and tolerant critical spirit would have produced. I’ve noticed that in whatever country, county, town, or other region there is a regulation enjoining temperance, the population seems to be entirely composed of teetotallers and drunkards. There’s a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire⁠—poison and antidote.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970