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You can know a real Christian when you see him, by his buoyancy.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick Twelve Tests of Character (1923)

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I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Riverside Sermons (1958)

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

At very best, a person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

On Being a Real Person (1943)

The present world situation smells to heaven!

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

Living Under Tension (1941)

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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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