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I never felt that my dedication to military service was a violation of my faith in Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace.
Jimmy Carter1924–2024Our Endangered Values (2005), Ch. 14 : Worshiping the Prince of Peace, or Preemptive War?, p. 147
- Christianity
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
Jimmy Carter1924–2024Addressing a Bible class in Plains, Georgia (March 1976), as quoted in Boston Sunday Herald Advertiser (11 April 1976)
- Christianity
- Life & Death
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Willa Cather1873–1947“Four Letters: Escapism” first published in Commonweal (17 April 1936)
- Art
- Economics
Islam is part of our past and our present, in all fields of human endeavour.
Charles IIIborn 1948Speech on Islam and the West to the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (27 October 1993)
- History
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936What’s Wrong With The World (1910), The Unfinished Temple
- Christianity
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936In The Illustrated London News (16 July 1910)
- Christianity
It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 1: “The Dickens Period”
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
- Christianity
At least five times…with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist sceptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Faith has to all appearance gone to the dogs. In each of these five cases it was the dog that died.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Everlasting Man
- Christianity
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
- Christianity
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936In The Illustrated London News (11 August 1928)
- Christianity
Is one religion as good as another? Is one horse in the Derby as good as another?
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936All Things Considered (1908), “Spiritualism”
- Humor
In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Defendant (1901), “Introduction”
One cannot now say, the priest is as the people, for the truth is that the people are not so bad as the priest.
Bernard of Clairvaux1090–1153In Conversione S. Pauli, Sermon 1, sect. 3; translation by James Spedding, in The Works of Francis Bacon (1860) vol. 12, p. 134
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