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"Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one."
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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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"American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World."
"Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples."
"If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear."
"The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms."
"It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole."
"No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion."
"Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology."
"Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being."
"The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them."
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