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It can never be for the interest of a believer to do me a mischief, because he is sure, upon the balance of accounts, to find himself a loser by it.: Joseph Addison

The pre-eminence of Christianity to any other religious scheme which preceded it, appears from this, that the most eminent among the pagan philosophers disclaimed many of those superstitious follies which are condemned by revealed religion.: Joseph Addison

It happened, very providentially, to the honour of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate ages of the world, but at a time when arts and sciences were at their height.: Joseph Addison

A few persons of an odious and despised country could not have filled the world with believers, had they not shown undoubted credentials from the divine person who sent them on such a message.: Joseph Addison

Such arguments had an invincible force of those Pagan philosophers who became Christians, as we find in most of their writings.: Joseph Addison

Arnobius asserts that men of the finest parts and learning,—rhetoricians, lawyers, physicians,—despising the sentiments they had once been fond of, took up their rest in the Christian religion.: Joseph Addison

There was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.: Francis Bacon

The countries of the Turk were once Christian, and members of the Church, and where the golden candlesticks did stand; though now they be utterly alienated, and no Christian left.: Francis Bacon

Christianity, which is always true to the heart, knows no abstract virtues, but virtues resulting from our wants, and useful to all.: Chateaubriand

Far beyond all other political powers of Christianity is the demiurgic power of this religion over the kingdoms of human opinion.: Thomas De Quincey

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts,—the cradle of its infancy and the divine source of its claims.: De Tocqueville

The universal dispersion of the Jews throughout the world, their unexampled sufferings, and their wondrous preservation, would be sufficient to establish the truth of the Scriptures, if all other testimony were sunk to the bottom of the sea.: Lord Chancellor Erskine

The prime act and evidence of the Christian hope is to set industriously and piously to the performance of that condition on which the promise is made.: Henry Hammond

There are two kinds of Christian righteousness; the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith, hope, and charity, and other Christian virtues.: Richard Hooker

The miracles which prove the Christian religion are attested by men who have no interest in deceiving us…. When we take the prophecies which have been so exactly fulfilled, we have most satisfactory evidence.: Dr. Samuel Johnson

I hope it is no derogation to the Christian religion to say that … all that is necessary to be believed in it by all men is easy to be understood by all men.: John Locke

Ours is a religion jealous in its demands, but how infinitely prodigal in its gifts! It troubles you for an hour, it repays you by immortality.: Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The propagation of Christianity, in the manner and under the circumstances in which it was propagated, is an unique in the history of the species.: William Paley

Lactantius also argues in defence of the religion from the consistency, simplicity, disinterestedness and sufferings of the Christian historians.: William Paley

If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws; the magistrates incorrupt; and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.: Jean Jacques Rousseau

O, father Abraham, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others.: William Shakespeare

Christianity teaches nothing but what is perfectly suitable to and coincident with the ruling principle of a virtuous and well-inclined man.: Robert South

The Christian religion is the only means that God has sanctified to set fallen man upon his legs again, to clarify his reason, and to rectify his will.: Robert South

They might justly wonder that men so taught, so obliged to be kind to all, should behave themselves so contrary to such heavenly instructions, such indissoluble obligations.: Robert South

Christianity came into the world with the greatest simplicity of thought and language, as well as life and manners, holding forth nothing but piety, charity, and humility, with the belief of the Messiah and of his kingdom.: Sir William Temple

In the first ages of Christianity not only the learned and the wise, but the ignorant and illiterate, embraced torments and death.: John Tillotson

I have represented to you the excellency of the Christian religion in respect of its clear discoveries of the nature of God, and in respect of the perfection of its laws.: John Tillotson

What laws can be advised more proper and effectual to advance the nature of man to its highest perfection than these precepts of Christianity?: John Tillotson

Christianity hath hardly imposed any other laws upon us but what are enacted in our natures or are agreeable to the prime and fundamental laws of it.: John Tillotson

By this law of loving even our enemies the Christian religion discovers itself to be the most generous and best-natured institution that ever was in the world.: John Tillotson

No religion that ever was so fully represents the goodness of God and his tender love to mankind, which is the more powerful argument to the love of God.: John Tillotson

The Christian religion gives us a more lovely character of God than any religion ever did.: John Tillotson

Christianity secures both the private interests of men and the public peace, enforcing all justice and equity.: John Tillotson

Do we not all profess to be of this excellent religion? but who will believe that we do so, that shall look upon the actions and consider the lives of the greatest part of Christians?: John Tillotson

Christianity is lost among them in the trappings and accoutrements of it, with which, instead of adorning religion, they have strangely disguised it, and quite stifled it in the crowd of external rites and ceremonies.: John Tillotson

The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.: George Washington

Christianity cannot be improved, but men’s views and estimates and comprehension of Christianity may be indefinitely improved.: Richard Whately

To believe in Christianity, without knowing why we believe it, is not Christian faith, but blind credulity.: Richard Whately

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