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Quotes from Why We Fail as Christians — Robert Hunter

1874–1942 United States

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From the dawn of the world the chief duty of a parent has been to keep his family secure from want.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

The entire world would be broken into atoms—each an individualist standing alone.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

In science he could see nothing useful to mankind.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

Floggings are of daily occurrence, and the fatalism common to all backward peoples is widespread in Russia.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

Wherever the chief economic problem is the unjust distribution of land, Christian communism seems to appeal to the masses.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

In the time of Jesus almost everybody worked in small shops or on the land and then sold or bartered their own products in the towns.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

He denounced the motives of those who engineer this progress.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

Profit, rent, and interest would be no more.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

It is especially easy in our time to forget others, largely because of the conditions in modern society.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

When principles will not work out in practice and the obstructions confronting men are too great, even the most faithful give way. And this, so far as we know, is what happened to every Tolstoyan.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

The more enlightened of their leaders looked upon him as a reactionary, standing in the way of the people's progress.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

Struggling apparently to annihilate self, Tolstoy pursued the circle of his philosophy until he came back to the point of deifying Self.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

Such a way was found in the communism of the early Christians.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

Isaiah prophesied the coming of a revolution which would make men more precious than gold, and that a new nation would arise, wherein everyone should help his neighbor.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

Tolstoyans proved rather a source of amusement to others than an inspiration and a light, and those who scoffed at Tolstoy's followers greatly enjoyed relating stories of their inconsistencies.

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While seeking his true relation to the infinite, Tolstoy was also seeking his true relation to mankind.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

Curiously enough, and this is what his family could not understand, the more religious he became the less he could tolerate the churches.

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Society as a whole would return... to the actual poverty of an agricultural and handicraft age.

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As we look into a clear pool and discern every detail of its sandy bottom, so may we often look into the minds of really great men.

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She was as impervious as a tigress, concealing the lair of her young, to the teaching that a Christian must be willing to sacrifice everything and everybody in pursuit of truth.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Hunter (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.