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Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you. (Mott Lucretia)
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America. (Mott Lucretia)
The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities. (Mott Lucretia)
I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else. (Mott Lucretia)
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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist. (Mott Lucretia)
Regardless of the day or the hour; whether in seeming good times or bad, the Christian lives in the world for the good of the world and for the sake of the world. (Mott Lucretia)
Christian life consists of faith and charity. (Mott Lucretia)
Christians are rare people on earth. (Mott Lucretia)
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave. (Mott Lucretia)
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul. (Mott Lucretia)
A good example is far better than a good precept. (Mott Lucretia)
A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have. (Mott Lucretia)
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man. (Mott Lucretia)
Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded. (Mott Lucretia)
There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things. (Mott Lucretia)
He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it. (Mott Lucretia)
Wherever there are walls I shall inscribe this eternal accusation against Christianity upon them -- I can write in letters which make even the blind see. I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind. (Mott Lucretia)
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. (Mott Lucretia)
Christianity makes suffering contagious. (Mott Lucretia)
What if men take to following where He leads, weary of mumbling Athanasian creeds? (Mott Lucretia)
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men. (Mott Lucretia)
To be like Christ is to be a Christian. (Mott Lucretia)
The great difference between present-day Christianity and that of which we read in these letters is that to us it is primarily a performance, to them it was a real experience. To these men it is quite plainly the invasion of their lives by a new quality of life altogether. They do not hesitate to describe this as Christ living in them. (Mott Lucretia)
Christianity is a battle not a dream. (Mott Lucretia)
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this -- that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made -- not to understand -- but to feel -- as crime. (Mott Lucretia)
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