People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted and at seeing it practised.

Samuel Butler
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  2. Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. At the end all his disciples deserted him. On the Cross he was utterly alone, surrounded by evildoers and mockers. For this cause he had come, to bring peace to the enemies of God. <span style="margin:15px;... - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  3. The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  4. The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-, ’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to... - Mary Daly

  5. What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God. - Unknown

More Quotes By Samuel Butler
  1. Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

  2. All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

  3. Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition that really suits them. This, they say, must certainly be their last, inasmuch as its close will be so great a shock that nothing can survive it. Every change...

  4. [P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

  5. Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

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