Quote#Wisdom
Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as…
Quote byVirchand Gandhi · 1864–1901
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York (1895).
English (original)
Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.
— Virchand Gandhi
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