Sunday, July 10, 2011

"If there be such a thing as being too sane for this world, Christ certainly was that."

The ideals of the founder of Christianity may be unsuitable to this world, but that is simply because, as all saints and philosophers have perceived, this world is off its head. It is not so much Christianity that is unworkable, it is humanity that is unworkmanlike. No, I do not blame the bells for being in such a state of excitement. If anything can be called a god why not call that a god which said things which are so simple that nobody could understand them- which were so true that nobody could believe them- which were so generous that nobody could forgive them? If there be such a thing as being too sane for this world, Christ certainly was that.

-Time's Abstract and Brief Chronicle (1904-1905)

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