In a viciously funny passage, when asked to pick a god…

“Constantine would have been proud of the new Gods that were formed as you will see why later.”

— Raymond Holder

King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath.

— Lloyd Alexander

An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour…

— Edward Gibbon

Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and…

— Noam Chomsky

But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour of an…

— Edward Gibbon

“Sometimes, if you close your eyes and keep still, you can be invisible. Ostriches know this." - Constantine”

— Jamie Delano

“And Constantine thought: So this is how it is, at the end.”

— George Pelecanos

“I do not know how to live in a world where everyone is right and everyone is wrong. Constantine was a good man, and…

— Kiersten White

Nothing but the cross of Christ can so startle the spiritual nature from its torpor, as to make it an effectual counterpoise to the…

— Mark Hopkins

All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to…

— Mary Balogh

“He had always felt that he lived on the edges of life, Constantine realized, watching everyone else living, sometimes helping them do it.”

— Mary Balogh

The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar.

— Wendell Berry

It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until…

— Philip Yancey

“Too often scholars have thought and even suggested that what happened during and after Constantine was that the church sought to replace the pagan…

— Ben Witherington III