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“If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.”

Ifs Children Home Christian Wish Term Christianity Trouble Miracle Our Children Your Children Gracious

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“The idea is that the savior came, and simply by the coming of the savior you're saved. Nonsense, human beings wish! If that were the case, we'd live in a perfect world.”

Ifs World Humans Ideas Wish Human Beings Perfect Christianity Cases Saved Nonsense Savior A Perfect World

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.”

Men Government Christian Wish Christianity Violence Resistance Meekness

Book:The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More

Source: The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More

“We wish to fill our culture once more with the spirit of Christianity - but not only in theory.”

Spirit Culture Wish Christianity Theory

Book:The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939

Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939

“If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.”

Ifs Trying Believe Belief Wish Christianity Rewards Insight Assured

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Christianity is a fine religion and I wish more Christians practiced it.”

Christian Wish Christianity Fine

Author:John Scalzi

“Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.”

Heart Might Wish Christianity Prove Argument Being True Infidelity Prove It

Author:Charles Simmons

“Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth.”

Ifs Should Wish Christianity Hundred Nine Wander Ninety Folds Sects Ninety Nine

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.”

People Facts Form Wish Christ Christianity Socialism

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“The Christians do not commit adultery. They do not bear false witness. They do not covet their neighbor's goods. They honor father and mother. They love their neighbors. They judge justly. They avoid doing to others what they do not wish done to them. They do good to their enemies. They are kind.”

Kind Done Christian Mother Father Wish Christianity Enemy Judging Bears Honor Neighbor Commit Witness Goods Adultery False Witness

Author:Aristides of Athens

“Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov. John Updike, who is religious, says I talk more about God than any seminarian. Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge, has resulted in a zeal without discretion that has vulgarised Christianity, and has presented its teachings in a form that often repels the heart and alienates the intellect.”

Heart Form Wish Christianity Share Teaching Spread Intellect Generous Zeal Illumination Discretion Priceless True Knowledge

Book:The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

“Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference.”

Source: The Blank Affections: The Religious Affections with Blank Pages Interleaved

“I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.”

Source: Autobiographies

“If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better. But if Christianity really gives peace, and if we really want peace, then patriotism is a leftover from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and taught, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule. If Christianity is the truth, and if we wish to live in peace, then we must not only have no sympathy for the power of our country, but must even rejoice in its weakening and contribute to it.”

Ifs Want Giving Mean Country Dream Wish Christianity Teaching Taught Our Country Patriotism Contempt Rejoice Preaching Idle Persuasion Ridicule Weakening No Sympathy

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.”

“I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.”

Looks House Wish White Christianity Week Months Blessed Islam Dinner Celebrate White House Hussein Wish You Mind Blowing Christianity And Islam Ramadan

Author:Barack Obama

“We do not wish to abolish teaching and to make every man his own master, but if the curates will not teach the gospel, the layman must have the Scripture, and read it for himself, taking God for his teacher.”

Ifs Men Wish Christianity Teach Teacher Teaching Masters Every Man Scripture Abolish Layman

Author:William Tyndale

“Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.”

Wish Difficult Christianity Sea Easier Streams

Author:Thomas Aquinas