Christianity Quote by Elaine Pagels

“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

“The claim at the heart of this book has been carefully researched by several generations of scholars and is orthodox in academic circles, if…

— Dr. Teresa Morgan

“Even Tacitus admitted that “whatever their origin, [the Jews’] observances are sanctioned by their antiquity,”64 and the Romans respected tradition. Christians, however, had no…

— Elaine Pagels

“Worst of all, they had thrown off the old Roman martial virtues of honor and duty and adopted Christianity with its feminine qualities of…

— Lars Brownworth

“...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 an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else was the…

— Tom Holland

“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

“it was much less dangerous for the disciples of Christ to neglect the observance of the moral duties, than to despise the censures and…

— Edward Gibbon

“Such was the cost of dealing with the Romans: even when one fought against them, the stain of their violence licked and crackled at…

— Ruth Downie

The Romans had to kill him because he was threatening the order because he had a great deal of personal power.

— Frederick Lenz

“The first time you tried to save people, you were certain of victory?" "Yes. In my pride, I knew I could not fail." "Then,…

— Kerrelyn Sparks

“The Romans were not wiped out by the invasions of the barbarians, nor by the Christian virus, but by a more subtle evil, boredom.”

— Emil Cioran