"If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others."

Unknown, Source on belief   

"The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on jesus christ   

"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."

Erasmus, Desiderius on jesus christ
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"Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self."

Francis of Assisi, St. on jesus christ
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"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act."

Gandhi, Mahatma on jesus christ
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"Jesus Christ turns life right-side-up, and heaven outside-in."

Henry, Carl F. H. on jesus christ   

"We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity."

Lennon, John on jesus christ
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"Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."

Lennon, John on jesus christ
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"The word Christianity is already a misunderstanding -- in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on jesus christ
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"Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners."

Paglia, Camille on jesus christ   

"Only Christ could have conceived Christ."

Parker, Joseph on jesus christ
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"Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair."

Pascal, Blaise on jesus christ
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"A lot of people say to me, Why did you kill Christ? I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know. We killed him because he didn't want to become a doctor, that's why we killed him."

Bruce, Lenny on jesus christ   

"Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on jesus christ
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"You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing."

Waitley, Denis on belief   

"The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything."

Wilde, Oscar on belief
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"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on humankind
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"If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true."

Chartier, Emile-Auguste on religion   

"You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on spirituality
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"Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand."

Lewis, C. S. on religion
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"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history."

Schweitzer, Albert on spirituality
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"Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him."

Renan, Ernest on jesus christ   

"Jesus whom I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God."

Athanasius, St. on jesus christ
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"The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road."

Allen, Charles L. on jesus christ
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"A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him."

Pound, Ezra on jesus christ
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"The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on jesus christ   

"Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God."

Hayden, B. R. on mercy
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"When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion."

Voltaire on money
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"Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true."

Pascal, Blaise on religion
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"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity."

Burke, Edmund on religion
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"I do benefits for all religions -- I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality."

Hope, Bob on religion   

"Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for."

Halifax, Edward F. on anger   

"I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution."

Swift, Jonathan on churches   

"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."

Gandhi, Mahatma on friends and friendship
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"If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness."

Voltaire on multiculturalism
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"A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this -- that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made -- not to understand -- but to feel -- as crime."

Poe, Edgar Allan on christians and christianity   

"A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on religion   

"Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known."

Whipple, Edwin P. on knowledge   

"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on happiness
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