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What a Christian is, and wherefore he is called a Christian.

— Jakob Böhme

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We men have one book in common which points to God. Each has it within himself, which is the priceless Name of God.

If thou wilt use these Words aright, and art in good Earnest, thou shalt certainly find the Benefit thereof.

The Way to Christ (1622)

This is understood by none but the Children of Christ, who have known it by Experience.

The Way to Christ (1622)

I must tell you, sir, that yesterday the pharisaical devil was let loose, cursed me and my little book, and condemned the book to the fire.

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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan (1923)

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence, from Jerusalem, of a lunatic asylum.

Havelock Ellis

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].

Thomas Jefferson Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764)

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