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But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

But the argument is still unsound, because the first premise is false: there are other unmentioned alternatives, for example, that Jesus as described in the gospels is a legendary figure, so that the trilemma is false as it stands.

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

But though every created thing is, in this sense, a mystery, the word mystery cannot be applied to moral truth, any more than obscurity can be applied to light. ... Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion. Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.

But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to believe what we desire rather than what we observe.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we acquire great treasures.

By itself, 1 Corinthians 15 just wouldn't mean much. He wants the appearances of 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 to be read as if they had in parentheses after them 'See Luke 24; Matthew 28; John 21.'

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

Can the Lord forgive me? Got the spirit of a thug in me.

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.

Certainly science has moved forward. But when science progresses, it often opens vaster mysteries to our gaze. Moreover, science frequently discovers that it must abandon or modify what it once believed. Sometimes it ends by accepting what it has previously scorned.

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.

Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of inextinguishable hatred for one another.

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

Christianity is a myth that has been literalised.

Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

Christians and non-Christians have something in common. Were both uptight about evangelism.

Christians can be positive even in a negative situation because we know God has a purpose for allowing that problem.

Christians have always tended to transform the Christian Revelation into a Christian religion. Christianity is said to be a religion like any other or, conversely, some Christians try to show that it is a better religion than the others. People attempt to take possession of God. Theology claims to explain everything, including the being of God. People tend to transform Christianity into a religion because the Christian faith obviously places people in an extremely uncomfortable position ­ that of freedom guided only by love and all in the context of God's radical demand that we be holy.

Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.

Christians often threaten atheists with eternal torture. But if we say that they're delusional, they will tell us that we're being rude.

Christianity cannot erase man's need for pleasure, nor can it eradicate the various sources of pleasure. What it can do, however, and what it has been extremely effective in accomplishing, is to inculcate guilt in connection with pleasure. The pursuit of pleasure, when accompanied by guilt, becomes a means of perpetuating chronic guilt, and this serves to reinforce one's dependence on God.

Christ will remain a priest and king; though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings; but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed.

Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.

Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.

Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.

[Christianity] existed and flourishes, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them.

Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

Christians claim that life has no meaning if you stop pretending to know things you don't know, though they phrase it more tersely as life has no meaning without faith.

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

Christians assert that because there is fundamental weirdness at the quantum level of the very very small one must pretend to know things one does not know, aka have faith.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.

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.

Church on time, makes me party.

Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action.

Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture.