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"It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be."
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"It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be."
Christian
"After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country."
People
"Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic."
Religion
"The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance."
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"Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists."
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"No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India."
History
"On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger."
Death
"The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development."
People
"In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding."
Cultural
"Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people."
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"The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross."
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"Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since."
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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
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"Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this."
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"Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world."
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"It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there?"
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"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
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"We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it."
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"Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ."
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