Charles Chilton Moore quotes

“Fifteen hundred years ago, Constantine, who murdered his own wife and children, started the Christian religion.”
-- Charles Chilton Moore

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“The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.”
-- Charles Chilton Moore

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“From that day to this that religion has been the greatest curse that ever afflicted the earth.”
-- Charles Chilton Moore

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“This religion teaches that 6,000 years ago God made the first man out of dust - not even mud - and the first woman out of a bone; that God cursed the whole human race because a snake made the woman eat an apple; that God had a son by another man's wife, and that he had this son murdered in order to keep himself from sending all the human race to hell.”
-- Charles Chilton Moore

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“This son taught that any man who did not believe that piece of ignorance and priestly lying would go to hell and burn eternally in fire and brimstone.”
-- Charles Chilton Moore

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“God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.”

“There is no kind of experience in which a Christian has a right to refuse to praise God, for 'all things work together for good to them that love God.'”

Source : A.C. Dixon (2016). “Through Night to Morning”, p.127, Solid Christian Books

“A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'”

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”

“We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.”

“To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.”

“Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.”

“I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

“The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.”

“If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.”