The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity. — Ouida Copy Share Image
“There are wrongs for which religion makes no provision, and of which it has no comprehension. --"Wanda” — Ouida Copy Share Image
You know the Ark of Israel and the calf of Belial were both made of gold. Religion has never yet changed the… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose… — Ouida Copy Share Image
In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of… — Ouida Copy Share Image
[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life;… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean,… — Ouida Copy Share Image
The Christian religion, outwardly and even in intention humble, does, without meaning it, teach man to regard himself as the most important… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women… — Ouida Copy Share
When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to… — Ouida Copy Share
There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough,… — Ouida Copy Share
Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens and smiles… — Ouida Copy Share
Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes,… — Ouida Copy Share
The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his… — Ouida Copy Share
It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle. — Ouida Copy Share
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall. — Ouida Copy Share
![“[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.” quote by Ouida](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3f4/ouida-3651_avarice_on-christianity-its-lip-service-and-its_1641749.png)
![“Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean, was by it [Christianity] degraded into the mere mechanical action of reproduction.” quote by Ouida](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fc0/ouida-3651_action_love-the-one-supreme-unceasing-source-of_3196699.png)
