“Last, we may suppose that it gave pleasure both to relate and to hear wonderful stories, because such is human nature; and the pleasure can be increased, at least till the point of incredulity is reached, by exaggerating the wonderful.… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents,… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
“Simplicity could only have been bought at a great price in accuracy.” — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
More Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians than had died before in all the persecutions. — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
“...god contradicts his own perfection if he can be reached, touched, disturbed, or in any way changed from it by anything in this material… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
“Last, we may suppose that it gave pleasure both to relate and to hear wonderful stories, because such is human nature; and the pleasure… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
Anyone who asserted wrong teachings, anyone serving the devil or his demons, earned instead an equally remarkable antagonism. In their official high meetings together,… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
