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"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down…. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal."	Deepak K. Chopra
"Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die."	F. Forrester Church
"Cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essense of religion, namely, its absolute claims."	Morris Raphael Cohen
"He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power."	Charles Caleb Colton
"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity."	Charles Caleb Colton
"Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but--live for it."	Charles Caleb Colton
"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas."	(John) Calvin Coolidge
"All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by...religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need."	(William) Harvey Cox
"Being filled with the Holy Spirit, then, is a matter of obedience to the Word of God. The filling of the Spirit that all experienced at Pentecost was a matter of a promise being fulfilled. Today, the believer is to be filled in obedience to the command of Ephesians 5:18, continuously, not merely by a single, crisis experience. The Christian life is a growth process toward maturity."	Clarence Cramer
"Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point: every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough; the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions? Let us examine the question."	Aleister Crowley
"God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on top of them."	Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
"Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement."	Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
"Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change."	Marquis de Sade
"Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world and consecrate it."	John Dewey
"A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!"	Charles Dickens
"But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely."	Charles Dickens
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