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The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

— Charles Péguy Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943)

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The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.

The Portal of the Mystery of Hope (1912)

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943)

There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.

Le Mystère des saints Innocents [The Mystery of the Holy Innocents (1912)

Tyranny is always better organised than freedom.

Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943)

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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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