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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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"It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her."
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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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"I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life."
Life
"Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas."
Change
"Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current."
Gold
"In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them."
Man
"Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions."
Power
"Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest."
Man
"But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it."
Writing
"When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain."
Society
"There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture."
Christian
"I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me."
Family
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