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The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
Thomas Paine1737–1809
Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.
Daniel Webster1782–1852
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
Daniel Webster1782–1852Speech at Plymouth, Massachusetts (22 December 1820)
God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.
George MacDonald1824–1905Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 250.
The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XVII.
- America
- Liberty
Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
I knew a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them that the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found that he was planting trees in his garden.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Saint Joan (1923), Epilogue (Cauchon)
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.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Letter to Dr. Eugen Heinrich Schmitt (October 12, 1896), translated by Nathan Haskell Dole
- Government
The very word “Christianity” is a misunderstanding⁠—at bottom there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 39 (translated by H. L. Mencken, 1918)
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
- Charity
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another’s misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
Alexander Pope1688–1744Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
- Charity
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.
Henry Ward Beecher1813–1887Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Outline of History (1920), Ch. 28
The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The World’s Last Night (1952)