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"I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third."
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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

"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."

"Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world."

"It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there?"

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

"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."

"The Jews and the Arabs should settle their dispute in the true spirit of Christian charity."
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"One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full."

"When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality."

"If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic."

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion."

"Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance."
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