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Hearing nuns’ confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
Fulton J. Sheen1895–1979
The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.
Fulton J. Sheen1895–1979
- Christianity
There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.
Fulton J. Sheen1895–1979Life Is Worth Living (1951–1957), Angels
They were trying to save their souls⁠—and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not been able to get a decent existence for their bodies?
Upton Sinclair1878–1968The Jungle (1906), Chapter XXIIIIn context
The working-man was to fix his hopes upon a future life, while his pockets were picked in this one; he was brought up to frugality, humility, obedience⁠—in short to all the pseudo-virtues of capitalism.
Upton Sinclair1878–1968The Jungle (1906), Chapter XXXIIn context
- Economics
Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve and challenge every item of the old faith.
Bhagat Singh1907–1931Why I am an atheist? (1930)
- Anti-Religion
- Faith
As the French say, there are three sexes — men, women, and clergymen.
Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 9, p. 313
- Comedy
The object of preaching is, constantly to remind mankind of what mankind are constantly forgetting; not to supply the defects of human intelligence, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
Sydney Smith1771–1845“The Judge That Smites Contrary to the Law: A Sermon Preached…March 28, 1824”, in The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith (1860) p. 428
My opinion concerning God differs widely from that which is ordinarily defended by modern Christians. For I hold that God is of all things the cause immanent, as the phrase is, not transient.
Baruch Spinoza1632–1677Letter 21 (73) to Henry Oldenburg , November (1675)
- Christianity
- God
Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.
Charles Spurgeon1834–1892Gleanings Among the Sheaves (New York: Sheldon and Company, 1869), “Holiness”, p. 73
- Christianity
- God
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one’s own life in order to make room for God’s life.
Edith Stein1891–1942The Ethos of Woman’s Professions (1930)
- God
Well, speaking as a Christian, I would like to say that I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the Apostle Peale appalling.
Adlai Stevenson II1900–1965Remarks to a Baptist convention in Texas during the 1952 presidential campaign
- Christianity
- Clever Jabs
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894An Inland Voyage (1878).
- Art
Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894An Inland Voyage (1878).
- Theology
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
Harriet Beecher Stowe1811–1896Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Volume II, Chapter XXXIXIn context