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The assumption of no God cannot be proven by science. ↗

— Frank Olvera 'The Christian Noob'

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I don’t really think the standard of judgment, the missing link, you spoke of that you find in my stories emerges from any religion but Christianity, because it concerns specifically Christ and the Incarnation, the fact that there has been a unique intervention in history. It’s not a matter in these stories of Do Unto Others. That can be found in any ethical cultural series. It is the fact of the Word made flesh. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it isn't. We can't compete, in simplicity, with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We're dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about! ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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Church, in the New Testament sense of the word, is not a meeting we attend, but a group of which we are a part, and a group we serve within. ↗

— Keri Wyatt Kent

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When our passion for the Great Commission, becomes our search for the Great Politician, we know we're lost. ↗

— Wes Moore

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We may not play with the new theology even if we may think we can turn it to our advantage. ↗

— Francis A. Schaeffer

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Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

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He came to put a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a High Priest, and a prodigal son above his exemplary brother. To all the phonies and fakers who would say that they could not join the Church because His Church was not holy enough, He would ask, 'How holy must the Church be before you will enter into it?' If the Church were as holy as they wanted it to be, they would never be allowed into it! In every other religion under the sun, in every Eastern religion from Buddhism to Confucianism, there must always be some purification before one can commune with God. But Our Blessed Lord brought a religion where the admission of sin is the condition of coming to Him. 'Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are ill. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

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I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries. ↗

— David Hume

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Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They more or less inherit them. Against this unearned patrimony there have always been speakers and writers who embody Einstein's injunction to 'remember your humanity and forget the rest.' It would be immodest to claim membership in this fraternity/sorority, but I hope not to have done anything to outrage it. Despite the idiotic sneer that such principles are 'fashionable,' it is always the ideas of secularism, libertarianism, internationalism, and solidarity that stand in need of reaffirmation. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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