Horace Greeley Quotes
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Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine.
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In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.
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Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.
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I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.
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To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.
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Doctrine divides, but doctrine also unites. It binds together the hearts of God's people who celebrate the truth of God together.
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Doctrine does matter.
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The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.
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The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.
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The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the surrounding influence and qualities produced by that relationship. That is all God asks us to give our attention to, and it is the one thing that is continually under attack.
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There are black Christians, and black Muslims in Africa who are being slaughtered, they don't want to hear about the Jim Crow laws. There are Christians, there are other Muslims being slaughtered in the Middle East, they don't need a lecture from Obama about Christianity. The fact of the matter is Obama is not doing anything effective or substantive to stop genocide in our time.
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The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.
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For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person.
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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.
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It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.
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Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.
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What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.
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I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.
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I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.
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There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.
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Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.
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When I remember something which I had, But which is gone, and I must do without, I sometimes wonder how I can be glad, Even in cowslip time when hedges sprout; It makes me sigh to think on it,--but yet My days will not be better days, should I forget.
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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
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There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.
