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“Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“The visitor from outer space made a serious study of Christianity, to leam, if he could, why Christians found it so easy to be cruel.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“So that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.” David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“Christianity without tears—that's what soma is.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“Indeed it is evident that Christianity, however degraded and distorted by cruelty and intolerance, must always exert a modifying influence on men's passions, and protect them from the more violent forms of fanatical fever, as we are protected...” Winston Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force
“Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.” Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist
“At the root of the Christian life lies belief in the invisible. The object of the Christian's faith is unseen reality.” A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
“Lift your heart and let it rest upon Jesus and you are instantly in a sanctuary though it be a Pullman berth or a factory or a kitchen. You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.” A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
“I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“Let us then declare that King Arthur and his noble knights, guarding the Sacred Flame of Christianity and the theme of a world order, sustained by valour, physical strength, and good horses and armour, slaughtered innumerable hosts of foul...” Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
“The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self—all your wishes and precautions—to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call...” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1)
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1)
The Antichrist (1)
What's Wrong with the World (1)