I believe Plato and Socrates. I believe in Jesus Christ.
Christianity Quotes
Jesus Christ was a minister of the pure Reason. The beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount are all utterances of the mind contemning the phenomenal world. “Blessed are the righteous poor, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye when men revile you,” etc. The Understanding can make nothing of it. ‘Tis […]
The trouble with born again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
Let any of those who renounce Christianity write fairly down in a book all the absurdities they believe instead of it, and they will find it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.
Luther was guilty of two great crimes – he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
I come now to our doctrine. Many people condemn it out of prejudice, without hearing or exploring it. They are to occupied with some opinion or other that totally dulls the sharp edge of their minds. I am not going to mention the insults and even criminal acts that are imputed to us in an […]
The people of this island and of all other islands which I have found and seen… all go naked… they… are so artless and free with all they possess, that no one would believe it without having seen it. Of anything they have, if you ask them for it, they never say no; rather they […]
It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.
The children of Christians are considered holy; and even though born with only one believing parent, by the apostle’s testimony they differ from the unclean seed of idoloters.
Christianity is not a religion of transcendental abstraction, or brilliant speculation; its children are neither monks, mystics, epicureans, nor stoics. It is the religion of loving, speaking, and doing, as well as believing. It is a life as well as a creed. It has a rest for the heart, a word for the tongue, a […]
