Christianity is not a solitary religion. Salt does its work only when it touches what is around it; a city set on a hill is meant to be seen.
Sermon 24 of 44 · 1748 · Matthew 5:13-16
Upon Our Lord's Sermon on the Mount, IV
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Christianity is essentially a social religion; and to turn it into a solitary one is to destroy it. By Christianity, I mean that method of worshipping God which is here revealed to man by Jesus Christ. When I say, this is essentially a social religion, I mean not only that it cannot subsist so well, but that it cannot subsist at all, without society — without living and conversing with other men.
Ye are the salt of the earth. Ye are the light of the world. The Christian is not called to flee the world but to be the salt that preserves it and the light that shows it the way home. Hide not thy candle under a bushel: set it on the candlestick, that it may give light to all that are in the house.
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