Indulgence Quote by Edward Gibbon

“The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as…

— Edward Gibbon

Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living,…

— Albert Camus

In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning a bogus…

— Larry Hurtado

Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed.... Mankind…

— D. H. Lawrence

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another…

— George Washington

“But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them…

— John Adams

“The theory of the relations between states and churches is bound up with the theory of Toleratio, and on that suject the eighteenth century…

— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

“The great compromise between the American religious impulse and the American Enlightenment in the 1700s permitted any and every conceivable sect to bud and…

— Kurt Andersen

Toleration made the world anti-Christian.

— John Cotton

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

— Tacitus

Toleration is the best religion.

— Victor Hugo

“Toleration means incomplete religious liberty.”

— John Bagnell Bury