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“Henceforward the Christian Churches having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, came into the hands of the Encratites: and the Heathens, who in the fourth century came over in great numbers to the Christians, embraced more readily this sort of Christianity, as having a greater affinity with their old superstitions, than that of the sincere Christians; who by the lamps of the seven Churches of Asia, and not by the lamps of the Monasteries, had illuminated the Church Catholic during the three first centuries.”

Firsts Hands Christian Form Three Church Numbers Christianity Greater Century Catholic Seven Sincere Fourth Superstitions Asia Lamps Godliness Affinity Christian Church Heathen Monasteries

Book:Observations

Source: Observations

“Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope of bringing about a Millennium, we busily teach to the heathen, we Christians ourselves disregard.”

Men World War Seems Christian Christianity Teach Virtue Ideals Righteousness Maxims Disregard Millennium Heathen

Book:White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war

Source: White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war

“Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.”

Wells May Hands Certain Christianity Islam Greek Melancholy Apathy Optimist Judaism Instill Heathen Vehemence

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“The heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true; it not only deserved no faith, but it demanded none. The very pretension to truth, the very demand of faith, were characteristic distinctions of Christianity.”

Christianity Demand Mythology Characteristics Distinction Pretension Heathen

Book:Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

“Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.”

Reality Christianity Shadow Mythology Substance Falsehood Heathen Emblems

Book:Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

“The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.”

May Christian Spiritual Poor Christianity Heard Europe Naked Missionary Tanks Heathen Christian Missionary

Book:Jung on Christianity

Source: Jung on Christianity

“Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.”

Religion Jesus Christ Church Christianity Morality Jesus Christ Mere Pregnancy Heathen

Book:The Revived Puritan. Select Works of ... G. W., ... Containing a Memoir of His Life, Etc. [Edited by G. B.]

Source: The Revived Puritan. Select Works of ... G. W., ... Containing a Memoir of His Life, Etc. [Edited by G. B.]

“She would have colored gracefully with embarrassment had she not possessed the complexion of one of those “heathen Italians,” as her mother said, who never colored, gracefully or otherwise. (Convincing her mother that Christianity had, to all intents and purposes, originated with the Italians, thus making them the exact opposite of heathen, was a waste of time and breath.)”

Said Mother Purpose Christianity Waste Opposites Breaths Wasting Time Possessed Convincing Embarrassment Heathen Complexion

Author:Gail Carriger