“Curiously enough, and this is what his family could not understand, the more religious he became the less he could tolerate the churches.”

— Robert Hunter (author)

Description of Nicholas in Tolstoy's "The Light Shines in Darkness."
Source: Why We Fail as Christians (1919), p. 43

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