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Letter "C" » Christians
«If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Novelist,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
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Christians,
Did,
For the,
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in this,
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precisely,
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The Histories,
the next,
the Other,
The Other World,
think of,
thought,
were
«I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet»
Author: Charles Bradlaugh
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About:
Christianity
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Keywords:
Christians,
crawl,
crawled,
crawling,
crawling with,
crawls,
knees,
mine,
stride,
strides,
striding,
strode
«I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.»
«It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!»
Author: Patrick Henry
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Lawyer)
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About:
Christianity,
God,
Religion
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Keywords:
christ,
Christians,
emphasized,
emphasizes,
emphasizing,
founded,
gospel,
Gospels,
Jesus,
Jesus Christ,
nation,
religions,
strongly
«Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.»
Author: Karl Barth
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Theologian)
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Keywords:
chosen,
Christians,
graft,
grafted,
grafting,
grafts,
guests,
house guest,
Jews,
New Gods,
onto,
promise,
wood
«Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
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Humorist,
Journalist,
Writer)
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About:
Christianity
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Keywords:
born-again Christian,
born again,
Christians,
cows,
dairy,
high-powered,
hunting,
powered,
rifle,
rifled,
rifles,
scope
«Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.»
Author: Billy Graham
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Keywords:
adversity,
batter,
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batters,
Christians,
defeat,
Human nature,
mountain,
ridge,
ridges,
rise,
storms,
strongest,
trees,
winds,
wind rose,
wood
«It is not their love for men but the impotence of their love for men which hinders the Christians of today from burning us»
«Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men»
Author: Voltaire
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Philosopher,
Writer)
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About:
Christianity,
Religion
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Keywords:
although,
Christianity,
Christians,
doubt,
inspire,
intolerant,
intolerant of,
religions,
The One,
tolerance,
up to,
up to now
«In converting Jews to Christians, you raise the price of pork.»