The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive, but in spite of their religion, not because of it.
Mark Twain Quotes
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be – a Christian.
It is believed by everyone that when he was in heaven he was stern, hard, resentful, jealous and cruel, but that when he came down to earth, he became the opposite – sweet, gentle merciful, forgiving. He was a thousand billion times crueler than ever he was in the Old Testament – Meek and gentle? […]
You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient “people say”. In all my seventy-two years and a half I have never come across such another ass as this human race is.
Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence – stuffed and in a museum.
I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.
Children have but little charity for one another’s defects.
A baby is an inestimable blessing and a bother.
Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don’t you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain’t any real difference between triplets and a insurrection.
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
