o make them happy. If you have not
made them happy, you have wronged them; no other good they may get can
make up for that.--_Charles Buxton._

~Christ.~--Our religion sets before us, not the example of a stupid stoic
who had by obstinate principles hardened himself against all sense of
pain beyond the common measures of humanity, but an example of a man
like ourselves, that had a tender sense of the least suffering, and yet
patiently endured the greatest.--_Tillotson._

However consonant to reason his precepts appeared, nothing could have
tempted men to acknowledge him as their God and Saviour but their being
firmly persuaded of the miracles he wrought.--_Addison._

Imitate Jesus Christ.--_Franklin._

The history of Christ is as surely poetry as it is history, and in
general, only that history is history which might also be
fable.--_Novalis._

~Christianity.~--Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with
reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first
remembered tones of her blessed voice.--_Coleridge._

There was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness
as the Christian religion doth.--_Bacon._

No religion ever appeared in the world whose natural tendency was so
much directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind. It makes
right reason a law in every possible definition of the word. And
therefore, even supposing it to have been purely a human invention, it
had been the most amiable and the most useful invention that was ever
imposed on mankind for their good.--_Lord Bolingbroke._

Far beyond all other political powers of Christianity is the demiurgic
power of this religion over the kingdoms of human opinion.--_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._

Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant
for its benefit and use. If nature gives to us capacities to believe
that we have a Creator whom we never saw, of whom we have no direct
proof, who is kind and good and tender beyond all that we know of
kindness and goodness and tenderness on earth, it is because the
endowment of capacities to conceive a Being must be for our benefit and
use; it would not be for our benefit and use if it were a
lie.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it
than he can be a sold