"Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully."

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Source : Charles Templeton (1955). “Life Looks Up”, New York : Harper

Charles Templeton

#Doe Quotes #World Quotes #Problem Quotes

“Free enterprise is a natural result of the American form of government, which says in so many words that the more men do for themselves, the less government does for them, the better off we will all be.”
“There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade - a far more infamous practice than slavery in the ancient world - was initiated, carried on and defended by Christian men in Christian countries.”
“I want to do everything with you”
“Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.”
“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.”
“Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.”
“It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.”
“Freedom is not an empty sound; it is not an abstract idea; it is not a thing that nobody can feel. It means, - and it means nothing else, - the full and quiet enjoyment of your own property. If you have not this, if this be not well secured to you, you may call yourself what you will, but you are a slave.”

Source : William Cobbett (2012). “A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland”, p.231, TAN Books

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