Pastoral Resources

I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

The time has come when the whole world must be concerned about me. From now on, American Christianity must follow me.

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.

It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.

The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

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.

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.