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"Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people."
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"Christianity if false is not important. If Christianity is true however it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important."

"For Restoration Of Mankind To Be Fulfilled, A Terrible Sacrifice Was Necessary."

"Because she is in God's hands.' But if so, she was in God's hands all the time, and I have seen what they did to her here. Do they suddenly become gentler to us the moment we are out of the body and if so, why? If God's goodness is inconsistent with hurting us, then either God is not good or there is no God: for the only life we know He hurts us beyond our worst fears and beyond all we can imagine. If it is consistent with hurting us, then He may hurt us after death is unendurably as before it."

"Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the soul which are going to turn it, in the long run, into a heavenly or a hellish creature."

"Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety."

"Kingdom priority is understood by disciples only."

"Religion is the product of organizations called churches."
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"When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it."

"All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles."

"No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life."

"In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact."
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