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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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"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
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"Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals."
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"Christmas makes everything twice as sad."
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"Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation."
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"Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years."
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"I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer."
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"Christianity is part of the common law."
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"Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas."
Change
"God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb."
God
"Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners."
Society
"It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out."
Life
"I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor."
Life
"Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not."
Wisdom
"A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one."
Life
"For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies."
Enemy
"An English man does not travel to see English men."
Man
"The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance."
People
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