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National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.

No man is greater than his prayer life.

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

No one who has not examined patiently and honestly the other religions of the world can know what Christianity really is, or can join with such truth and sincerity in the words of St. Paul, "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise.

Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.

Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.

None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full.

Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.

Nothing is more generally known than the duties which belong to christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practised?

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity.

Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

One Almighty is more than all mighties

One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it.

Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence.

Our Faith must be tested. God builds no ships but what He sends to sea.

Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, - our health, our longevity, and our Christianity.

One of the things people don't know about exorcism, is that you can't really use exorcism on things that are older than Christianity.

Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in all of its forms, could have come with a categorizing of people as one thing or the other.

Only he is fit to preach who cannot avoid preaching, who feels that woe is upon him unless he preach the gospel

Organized Christianity that fails to make a disturbance is dead.

Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

Our faith is an astounding thing-astounding that I should believe him to be the Son of God who is suspended on the cross, whom I have never seen, with whom I have never become acquainted.

Our murmuring is the devil's music.

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

Our seminaries today are turning out dead men.

Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.

Politeness is practical Christianity.

Prayer is the hard-work business of Christianity, and it nets amazing results.

Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.

Prayer is the very life-breath of true Christianity.

Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.

Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.

Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!

Reason dies collapsing under its own load.

Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity.

Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal.

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.