Famous quotes containing the words earliest and/or christian:
“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864)
“The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
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—David Hume (17111776)