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Here saw I a great oneing betwixt Christ and us, to mine understanding: for when He was in pain, we were in pain.
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love, Eighth Revelation, Ch. 18
The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
Thomas Paine1737–1809
I’m a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order.
Mike Penceborn 1959Vice-presidential acceptance speech, Republican National Convention (20 July 2016)
- Politics
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
William Penn1644–1718No Cross, No Crown (1682)
- Success
Going to church doesn’t make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.
Laurence J. Peter1919–1990
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
Superman is nothing more than a popular retelling of the Christ story, or Greek mythology.
Christopher Reeve1952–2004Caught in the Act: New York Actors Face to Face (1986) by Don Shewey and Susan Shacter, p. 18
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 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
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)
There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ’s moral character, and that is that He believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Why I Am Not a Christian (1927), “The Moral Problem”
- Anti-Religion
Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Education and the Social Order (1932), p. 107
- Anti-Religion
- Courage
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)
Both Testaments are full of pundits, prophets, disciples, favorite sons, Solomons, Isaiahs, Davids, Pauls — but, my God, who besides Jesus really knew which end was up?
J. D. Salinger1919–2010Zooey (1957)