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Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilize civilization and christianize Christendom?
Herman Melville1819–1891White-Jacket (1850), Ch. 64
I never felt that my dedication to military service was a violation of my faith in Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace.
Jimmy Carter1924–2024Our Endangered Values (2005), Ch. 14 : Worshiping the Prince of Peace, or Preemptive War?, p. 147
Jesus knew — knew — that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look? You have to be a son of God to know that kind of stuff.
J. D. Salinger1919–2010Zooey (1957)
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
William Penn1644–1718No Cross, No Crown (1682)
- Success
I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.
Montesquieu1689–1755Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721), No. 29. (Rica writing to Ibben)
- Anti-Religion
But this we may positively state, that nobody has made any progress in the school of Christ unless he cheerfully looks forward to the day of his death and to the day of the final resurrection.
John Calvin1509–1564Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551), Page 78.
- Life & Death
Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible, it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.
W. H. Auden1907–1973A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970), “Friday, Good”
- Poetry
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)
Jesus Christ⁠—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens⁠—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker.
Sam Harrisborn 1967The End of Faith (2004)
- Anti-Religion
Christianity is Platonism for the “people”.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Beyond Good and Evil (1886), PreludeIn context
- Philosophy
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
Jerome345–420Commentary on Isaiah, Prologue
- Knowledge
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
Jerome345–420Letters, Letter 125
We multiply whenever we are mown down by you; the blood of Christians is seed.
Tertullian150–220Apologeticus, 50, s. 13
Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
George MacDonald1824–1905Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 148
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood. Especially if it’s me!
George Carlin1937–2008“Interview With Jesus”
- Anti-Religion
- Comedy