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• Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

  Vance Havner

  Adversity, Medicine, People

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• All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always everywhere. We work while singing, we sail while reciting hymns, we accomplish all other occupations of life while praying.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Hymns, Singing, Life Is Like

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• The Cross to me is certain salvation. The Cross is that which I ever adore. The Cross of the Lord is with me. The Cross is my refuge.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Lord, Salvation, Crosses

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• Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christ, Discipleship, Christian Discipleship

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.17, SCM Press

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• Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.

  Billy Graham

  Sports, Christian, Religious

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In some Churches today and on some religious television programs, we see the attempt to make Christianity popular and pleasant. We have taken the cross away and substituted cushions.

  Billy Graham

  Religious, Taken, Church Today

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.60, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

  C. S. Lewis

  Party, Views, Order

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.80, HarperCollins UK

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• Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

  Mark Twain

  Museums, Earth, Century

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.460, Courier Corporation

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• It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of religion that suggests that if we are good we shall be happy. On the contrary, it is fiercely and even harshly realistic, insisting that there are certain eternal achievements that make even happiness look like trash.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Should Have, Ideas, Achievement

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• It also happens to me that when I meet a clericalist, I suddenly become anti-clerical. Clericalism should not have anything to do with Christianity. St. Paul, who was the first to speak to the Gentiles, the pagans, to believers in other religions, was the first to teach us that.

  Pope Francis

  Firsts, Speak, Pagan

  "The Pope: how the Church will change". Interview with Eugenio Scalfari, www.repubblica.it. October 1, 2013.

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• No man is greater than his prayer life.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Men, Revival

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.25, Bethany House

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• Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Process, Daily Motivation

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Oct 02, 2012

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• Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of life a weak, diseased thing, always it has instilled fear in man, turning him into a dual being, whose life energies are spent in the struggle between body and soul. In decrying the body as something evil, the flesh as the tempter to everything that is sinful, man has mutilated his being in the vain attempt to keep his soul pure, while his body rotted away from the injuries and tortures inflicted upon it.

  Emma Goldman

  Struggle, Men, Evil

  "The Failure of Christianity". "Mother Earth" Journal, April 1913.

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• The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Christian, Teacher, Joy

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• A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Religion, Would Be

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive state of mind; Praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. Pessimism is at best an emotional half-holiday; Joy is the uproarious labor by which all things live? Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Grief, Holiday

  "Orthodoxy". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Chapter VIII. "The Romances of Orthodoxy", 1908.

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• Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Metaphysics, Hangman

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.309, Penguin

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• Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

  Billy Sunday

  Funny, Hilarious, Christian

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgression. His death hath disarmed the law, his blood hath washed a believer's soul. This death is the destruction of our enemies, the spring of our happiness, and the eternal testimony of divine love.

  Stephen Charnock

  Happiness, Death, Christian

  "Christ Our Passover".

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• Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people. Before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children.

  Cory Booker

  Love, God, Christian

  Cory Booker (2016). “United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good”, p.173, Ballantine Books

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• Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow.

  Theodore Epp

  Life, Christian, Yesterday

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• I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian Inspirational, Religion, Bottles

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.48, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The whole history of Christianity proves that she has little indeed to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from persecution as an ally.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Allies, Littles, Persecution

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• Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

  John Wesley

  Life, Motivational, Christmas

  'Rule of Conduct' in 'Letters' (1915)

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• Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.

  Adolf Hitler

  Taken, Mean, Law

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Secret Conversations, 1941-1944”

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