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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
- Christianity
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
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
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain1835–1910
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Letter to William Smith, Member of the Irish Parliament (29 January 1795), quoted in R. B. McDowell (ed.), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Volume VIII: September 1794–April 1796 (1969), p. 128
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
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Henry Ward Beecher1813–1887
- Love
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
- Christianity
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913), Section 2: Religion
- Morality
The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.
William Jennings Bryan1860–1925
- Christianity
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
- Christianity
The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
Thomas Paine1737–1809
- Christianity
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
JFJames Feibleman
- Anti-Religion
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933
Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.
Daniel Webster1782–1852
- Christianity