Character Quote by Baron de Montesquieu

“It was a mark of Constantine's political genius and flexibility that he realized it was better to utilize a religion(Christianity) that already had a…

— Charles Freeman

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance…

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

— Charles Kingsley

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

— Peter Jennings

Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that…

— Thomas Bulfinch

Priesthood ordinances are the pathway to the power of godliness.

— David A. Bednar

“Prosecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly-marked feature of all law-religious, or religions established by law.…

— Thomas Paine

I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well.

— Hilaire Belloc

Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ…

— Arthur Middleton

“How could the Christian Church, apparently quite willingly, accommodate this weird megalomaniac [Constantine] in it's theocratic system? Was there a conscious bargain? Which side…

— Paul Johnson

“We have no better materials to compound the priesthood of, than the mass of mankind, which corrupted as it is, those who receive orders…

— Jonathan Swift

That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.

— Roger Williams