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Christianity does not consist in believing stories in the Old Testament, about Noah's curse and all that, but in loving your brother as yourself, and God with your whole heart.

— Theodore Parker

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The world has grown rich and refined, but chiefly by the efforts of those who themselves continue poor and ignorant.

I love justice, not for its consequences for bodily gain, but for itself, for the moral truth and loveliness thereof.

Ten Sermons of Religion (1853)

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion (1842)

Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God.

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion (1842)

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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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