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At least five times…with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist sceptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Faith has to all appearance gone to the dogs. In each of these five cases it was the dog that died.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Everlasting Man
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
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)
He, who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own Sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834Aids to Reflection (1825), Aphorism 63, p. 89
- Truth & Lies
Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn.
Christopher Columbus1451–1506Letter to the Sovereigns (1498)
- Money
The Man of Galilee, the Carpenter, the workingman who became the revolutionary agitator of his day soon found himself to be an undesirable citizen in the eyes of the ruling knaves and they had him crucified.
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
If anyone could prove to me that Christ is outside the truth, and if the truth really did exclude Christ, I should prefer to stay with Christ and not with truth.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Letter to Mme. N. D. Fonvisin (1854), in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family and Friends (1914), trans. Ethel Colburn Mayne, Letter XXI, p. 71
- Faith
- Truth & Lies
Caesar and Christ had met in the arena, and Christ had won.
Will Durant1885–1981III—Caesar and Christ (1944), Chapter 30, part 1, p. 652
- History
As a child, I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Viereck interview (1929)
No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Interview with George Sylvester Viereck (1929), as reported in Denis Brian, Einstein: A Life (1996)
Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels.
William Faulkner1897–1962The Sound and the Fury (1929), June Second, 1910 (1 of 4)In context
- Time
But suddenly, at the edge of her mind, Religion appeared, poor little talkative Christianity, and she knew that all its divine words from “Let there be Light” to “It is finished” only amounted to “boum.”
E. M. Forster1879–1970A Passage to India (1924), Part II: Caves, Chapter XIVIn context
- Faith
You can know a real Christian when you see him, by his buoyancy.
Harry Emerson Fosdick1878–1969Twelve Tests of Character (1923)
How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, his precepts! O! ‘tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
- Christmas
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Letter to Ezra Stiles (9 March 1790)
- Morality