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"Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world."
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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."
"We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it."
"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."
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"It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction."
"All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal."
"The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct."
"Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees."
"Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them."
"In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence."
"All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs."
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