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Let no man judge himself to be a Christian, unless he is one who both follows the teaching of Christ and imitates his example.

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Do you consider a man to be a Christian by whose bread no hungry man is ever filled?

We can never enter upon the path to virtue unless we have hope as our guide and companion.

The best incentive for the mind consists in teaching it that it is possible to do anything which one really wants to do.

Unless a man has despised worldly things, he shall not receive those which are divine.

He is a Christian ... who feels another's pain as if it were his own.

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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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