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Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

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In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

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Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

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Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

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Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

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Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

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The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

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Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares. ↗

— William Law

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Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like. ↗

— William Law

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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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