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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hard-hearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.

— Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.

The Beauty of the World (1725)

Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

He who has a false hope, has not that sight of his own corruptions which the saint has.

A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (1746)

Holy practice is the most decisive evidence of the reality of our repentance. "Bring forth fruits meet for repentance."

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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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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