The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and who have lost our faith have retained the Christian sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries.

By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by the word. It is every individuals individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.

Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.

The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.