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"At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar."
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"Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that. The more people see us and come to know us, the more I believe they will come to realize that we are trying to exemplify in our lives and in our living the great ideals which (Jesus Christ) taught."

"Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church."

"The birth of Jesus Christ is a reminder of what Adam and Eve failed to do in the Garden of Eden."

"I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it."

"To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness."

"Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool."

"Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully."

"Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical."

"I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow."
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"To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility."


"Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists."


"The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all."


"Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger."


"Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation."


"Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty."


"Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth."


"The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity."
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