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Whenever an orthodox editor attacks an unbeliever, look out for kindness, charity and love.
A Christmas Sermon (1890)
The writers of the New Testament seem to have thought that the world was about coming to an end. This world was to be sacrificed absolutely to the next.
A Christmas Sermon (1890)
It is perfectly easy for any one with the slightest imagination to understand how other people differ from him. I do not attribute a bad motive to a man simply because he disagrees with me.
A Christmas Sermon (1890)
Dr. Buckley, who, as I understand it, is a doctor of theology—and I should think such theology stood in need of a doctor…
A Christmas Sermon (1890)
This chronology is infinitely absurd, and I do not believe that there is an intelligent, well-educated Christian in the world, having examined the subject, who will say that the Christian chronology is correct.
A Christmas Sermon (1890)
All that Christianity has added to morality is worthless and useless. Not only so—it has been hurtful. Take Christianity from morality and the useful is left, but take morality from Christianity and the useless remains.
A Christmas Sermon (1890)
The doctrine of eternal punishment is the infamy of infamies. As I have often said, the man who believes in eternal torment, in the justice of endless pain, is suffering from at least two diseases—petrifaction of the heart and putrefaction of the brain.
A Christmas Sermon (1890)
It does not seem possible to me that a God who loved men to that degree that he died that they might be saved, abandons his children the moment they are dead. It seems to me that an infinite God might do something for a soul after it has reached the other world.
A Christmas Sermon (1890)