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In Christian lands, most persons grow up, of course, into this kind of Christianity, and live on, without seriously inquiring whether they live as the gospel requires.

“The world was ripe for this saving act, for men and powers alike are caught in situations from which they cannot emerge without divine help.”
― St. Ignatius and Christianity in Antioch
― St. Ignatius and Christianity in Antioch
“Myth... is a statement of truth cast in dramatic form to suggest the dynamic interrelations of the divine, the world, and man.”
― St. Ignatius and Christianity in Antioch
― St. Ignatius and Christianity in Antioch
“In a far more complete sense Jesus Christ as the logos is a meaningful declaration of what in the father is otherwise unfathomable.”
― St. Ignatius and Christianity in Antioch
― St. Ignatius and Christianity in Antioch

“Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
― Politics and the English Language
― Politics and the English Language

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.”
― Politics and the English Language
― Politics and the English Language
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