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"The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity."

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried."

"The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross."

"Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ."

"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."

"For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd."
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"If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it."


"It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy."


"The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine."


"There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit."


"Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult."


"A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better."
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