Religion Quote by Bryan Sykes

“Could anything be more improbable than that a religion following a man born of an unwed mother among a widely despised people in an…

— Everett Ferguson

“Let them cease, then, to insult the Roman empire, who pretend that they are the sons of the Church; when they see that Christ,…

— Dante Alighieri

“Contemporaries struggled to make sense of what, to them, was the complete collapse of the world order. “Why does [God] allow us to be…

— Peter Frankopan

“...when all the bullshit about rational, divinely inspired social order is put to one side, Roman law was all about defining and protecting property…

— Peter Heather

“It was no objection to the apostles and their successors, who went among the barbarous Germans and Gauls, and still more barbarous Britons! They…

— William Carey

“Romans is the most influential document in Christian history. It stimulated not only the Protestant Reformation but many other revivals throughout history.”

— George R. Knight

“Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she…

— Tom Holland

“My people were extremely independent in both nature and outlook, this perhaps making a future clash between the Romans and us during a point…

— Michael G. Kramer

“Yea, and so abundant were they in the three first centuries, that ten years constant and almost universal persecution under Dioclesian, could neither root…

— William Carey

“If we are to make the ordinary man aware of the spiritual uity out of which asll the separate activities of our civilization have…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

“the Roman historian Tacitus, who wrote in AD 98, ‘For myself I accept the view that the people of Germany have never been tainted…

— Bryan Sykes

“If, therefore, from the settlement of the Saxons, to the introduction of Christianity among them, that system of religion could not be a part…

— Thomas Jefferson