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O, I’ll leap up to my God!⁠—Who pulls me down?⁠—
See, see, where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament!
One drop would save my soul, half a drop: ah, my Christ!
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Doctor Faustus (c. 1592), spoken by FaustusIn context
- Faith
I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am a Christian, and you can’t take that away from me.
Giorgia Meloniborn 1977Giorgia Meloni: The long climb to Italy’s political summit Euro News (October 22, 2022).
- Women
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
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
Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful seat
John Milton1608–1674Paradise Lost (1667), Book IIn context
- Religion
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
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.
Napoleon1769–1821
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 16
What is more harmful than any vice? Active pity for all the failures and all the weak: Christianity.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Anti-Christ
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)
Christianity is Platonism for the “people”.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Beyond Good and Evil (1886), PreludeIn context
- Philosophy
The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 62 (translated by H. L. Mencken, 1918)
- Anti-Religion
Oh, that some one would save them from their Saviour!
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–1885), Second Part, XXVIIn context
- Anti-Religion
Better songs would they have to sing, for me to believe in their Saviour: more like saved ones would his disciples have to appear unto me!
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–1885), Second Part, XXVIIn context
- Anti-Religion
Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
Florence Nightingale1820–1910Cassandra (1860)
- Women