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Christianity
«The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head»
Author: A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
(Novelist)
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«The Christian glories in the death of a pagan, because thereby Christ himself is glorified»
Author: Bernard of Clairvaux
(Founder, Monk, Mystic)
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glories, glorified, pagan, pagans, thereby
«The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
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attended, Christian religion, reasonable, reasonable person, The Christian
«The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions»
Author: John Newton
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best of all, ministries, ministry, Ministry of, professions, The Christian, trades
«The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and read, beer and a bed.»
Author: William Cobbett
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Religion
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«The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America and the introduction of African slaves in their place»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
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War
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«The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.»
«The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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and others, classes, consequences, defect, ethics, fundamental, grounds, labels, sins, social class, social classes
«The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice: the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit; it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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at the same time, Christian faith, derision, mutilation, mutilations, pride, sacrifice, self confidence, subjection, The Christian, The Sacrifice