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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

God helps those who help themselves.

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.

And there’s always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that’s what soma is.

I think it’s important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.

Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it was true, but because humans are gullible and superstitious.

Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only ‘special’ people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don’t think He has a place for the rest of us. We are so wrong!

Peace is not automatic. It is a gift of the grace of God. It comes when hearts are exposed to the love of Christ. But this always costs something. For the love of Christ was demonstrated through suffering and those who experience that love can never put it into practice without some cost.

The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.

All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another.

The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.

It is a reality that we have complete control of organised Christianity. Almost anywhere, completely. We ‘Jews’ must become lawyers so we could control and strangle the courts, we should become teachers and leaders in all the churches.

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in the course of the year to a great bundle of sticks, far too large for us to lift. But God does not require us to carry the whole at once. He mercifully unties the bundle, and gives us first one stick, which we are to carry today, and then another, which we are to carry tomorrow, and so on. This we might easily manage, if we would only take the burden appointed for us each day; but we choose to increase our troubles by carrying yesterday’s stick over again today, and adding tomorrow’s burden to our load, before we are required to bear it.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Man will believe anything, as long as it’s not in the bible.

Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing. If we fail to fulfill this divine duty and privilege, we have missed the meaning of Christianity.

The Christians do not commit adultery. They do not bear false witness. They do not covet their neighbor’s goods. They honor father and mother. They love their neighbors. They judge justly. They avoid doing to others what they do not wish done to them. They do good to their enemies. They are kind.

I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

Don’t be fearful about the journey ahead; don’t worry about where you are going or how you are going to get there. If you believe in the first person of the Trinity, God the Father, also believe in the second person of the Trinity, the one who came as the Light of the World, not only to die for people, but to light the way… This one, Jesus Christ, is himself the Light and will guide your footsteps along the way.

With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. And if there had been no fall, then the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the story of the first sin and the reason for an atonement … collapsed like a house of cards.

As no darkness can be seen by anyone surrounded by light, so no trivialities can capture the attention of anyone who has his eyes on Christ.

I trust in the Lord God Almighty … that he will not take away from me the cup of his redemption, but firmly hope to drink from it today in his kingdom.

There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as I believed there was a Devil… Suddenly the light broke through to me and I knew this God was a lie… For indeed it is a silly story, and each generation nowadays swallows it with greater difficulty… Why do people go on pretending about this Christianity?

Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.