“Whatever in the gospel will not interfere with what we like to do, or feel we must do, we gladly believe; and to the rest we close our eyes. Most of us do this half-unconsciously, perhaps, but in our innermost selves we can hardly help knowing that we are not Christians, and that there is in the gospel something fundamental—a vital message, an essence—which we do not wish to understand.”

—  Robert Hunter (author)

Source: Why We Fail as Christians (1919), p. 7

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American sociologist, author, golf course architect 1874–1942

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