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In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900
- Anti-Religion
What is more harmful than any vice? Active pity for all the failures and all the weak: Christianity.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Anti-Christ
- Christianity
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
Christianity is Platonism for the “people”.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Beyond Good and Evil (1886), PreludeIn context
- Christianity
- 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
- Christianity
Oh, that some one would save them from their Saviour!
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–1885), Second Part, XXVIIn context
- Anti-Religion
- Christianity
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
- Christianity
What is Mysticism? Is it not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition?
Florence Nightingale1820–1910Notes from Devotional Authors of the Middle Ages (1873-1874)
- God
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)
- Christianity
- Women
It behoved that there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love, Thirteenth Revelation, ch. 27
- Hope
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
- Christianity
No society is immune from the darkest impulses of man. And too often religion has been used to tap into those darker impulses as opposed to the light of God.
Barack Obamaborn 1961Address to the People of India (January 2015)
Freedom of religion is central to the ability of peoples to live together.
Barack Obamaborn 1961A New Beginning (June 2009)
- Freedom
People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, and the heart, and the soul. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive.
Barack Obamaborn 1961A New Beginning (June 2009)
- Freedom
Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation — at least, not just; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.
Barack Obamaborn 1961Keynote speech: Call to Renewal’s Building a Covenant for a New America conference—Washington, D.C., June 2006.
- America