Constantine Quote by Constantine the Great Download Open image “With Free minds all are to worship their Gods” — Constantine the Great ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Constantine Emperor constantine Freedom Inspirational Love Mind Psychology Worship
The free will is a pagan goddess that the Church has worshipped for far too long. — Steve Lawson Copy Share Image
A free mind is one which is untroubled and unfettered by anything, which has not bound its best part to any particular manner of… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of all the… — Constantine the Great Copy Share Image
King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and the powerful, and a pacifist doctrine. And it remained that way, that's what Christianity was up... until Constantine. :Constantine shifted it so the cross, which was the symbol of persecution of somebody working for the poor,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour of an Imperial proselyte, whom it was so important to allure, by every gentle condescension, into the pale of the church; and Constantine was permitted, at least by a tacit dispensation, to enjoy most of the privileges, before… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share
“Sometimes, if you close your eyes and keep still, you can be invisible. Ostriches know this." - Constantine” — Jamie Delano Copy Share
Nothing but the cross of Christ can so startle the spiritual nature from its torpor, as to make it an effectual counterpoise to the debasing and sensual tendencies of the race. Favored by temperament and education, individuals may measurably escape; but if the race is to triumph in the conflict between the flesh and the spirit, between the lower propensities… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share
All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be the guardian of my own heart, But he admitted that he could not teach me how or when to allow the fortress to be breached or my heart to be unlocked. It would simply happen,… — Mary Balogh Copy Share
The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was consubstantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine… Now, though, the symbol is everywhere: artists beat gold into the shape of the Roman execution device, baseball players cross themselves before batting, and cancy confectioners even make chocolate… — Philip Yancey Copy Share
“Too often scholars have thought and even suggested that what happened during and after Constantine was that the church sought to replace the pagan temples, priests, and sacrifices with their own. This is at best a half truth. If this had been primarily what was going on, we would have expected to find priestesses showing up in the mainstream church… — Ben Witherington III Copy Share
Constantine, the Emperor, saw something in the religion of Christ's people which awakened his interest, and now we see him uniting religion to the state and marching up the marble steps of the Emperor's palace, with the church robed in purple. Thus and there was begun the most baneful misalliance that ever fettered and cursed a suffering world... When ...… — George W Truett Copy Share
