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Full Idea
We cannot speak against Christianity without anger, or speak for it without love.
Gist of Idea
We cannot speak against Christianity without anger, or speak for it without love
Source
Joseph Joubert (Notebooks [1800], 1801)
Book Ref
Joubert,Joseph: 'Notebooks', ed/tr. Auster,Paul [nyrb 2005], p.72
A Reaction
This seems to be rather true at the present time, when a wave of anti-religious books is sweeping through our culture. Presumably this remark used to be true of ancient paganism, but it died away. Christianity, though, is very personal.