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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849), Canto XCIVIn context
- Faith
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
- Christianity
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
- Christianity
I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
Mother Teresa1910–1997
- Charity
- Christianity
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
Tertullian150–220Ad Scapulam, 2.2
- Freedom
We multiply whenever we are mown down by you; the blood of Christians is seed.
Tertullian150–220Apologeticus, 50, s. 13
- Christianity
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
Paul Tillich1886–1965
Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XVII.
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book One, Chapter V.
The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XVII.
Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Letter to Dr. Eugen Heinrich Schmitt (October 12, 1896), translated by Nathan Haskell Dole
- Christianity
- Government
The Churches as Churches have always been and cannot fail to be institutions not only alien to, but directly hostile towards, Christ’s teaching.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894), Chapter III, Christianity Misunderstood by Believers
- Anti-Religion
- Christianity
There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries, than the necessity of listening to sermons.
Anthony Trollope1815–1882Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 6
- Comedy
This is a Christian nation.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972“Exchange of Messages With Pope Pius XII,” American Presidency Project (August 28, 1947)
- America
- Christianity