Bible Quote by Alasdair MacIntyre

“But because this man listens and that man scoffs, and most are enamored of the blandishments of vice rather than the wholesome severity of…

— Philip Schaff

“An abundance of pictorial fancy, after all, furnished the simple mind quite as much matter for deviating from pure doctrine as any personal interpretation…

— Johan Huizinga

“I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religous.…

— Mark Twain

“Je fais mon lit et mon ménage; I seek my dinner in a restaurant; my supper takes care, of itself; I pass days laborious…

— Charlotte Brontë

“From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in…

— Patricia J. Williams

“We must all make the mental leap from the pious histories we have read in the martyrologies to the reality of living flesh and…

— Michael D. O'Brien

“History – the amorphous, unconscious life within the swarm of humanity – exploits every minute in the lives of kings as an instrument for…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Let him then, who would be indeed a Christian, watch over his ways and over his heart with unceasing circumspection. Let him endeavour to…

— William Wilberforce

“the people were steeped in the crepuscular gloom of antiquity; and were wise with all manner of accumulated lore; and were subtle in the…

— Clark Ashton Smith

“Saints are merely tyrants in the kingdom of virtue.”

— Julia Glass

“Translate into words for me the sighings of the wind through the forest and the withdrawal of the sea down the pebbly beach and…

— F.B. Meyer

“From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in…

— Patricia J. Williams