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title: "4 Christianity Set Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/if-those-who-had-set-themselves-to-explain-the-various-theories-of/)

[George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/)

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> [Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-hauerwas/conservatives-and-liberals-understand-the-christian-faith-as-a-set-of/)

[Stanley Hauerwas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-hauerwas/)

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> [Christianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-hauerwas/christianity-is-not-a-set-of-beliefs-or-doctrines-one-believes-in/)

[Stanley Hauerwas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-hauerwas/)

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> [Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-feuerbach/christianity-set-itself-the-goal-of-fulfilling-man-s-unattainable/)

[Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-feuerbach/)

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