Books Quote by Francis Russell

“It was Islam’s armies and the empire they spread across three continents that reduced Christianity, with a few scattered exceptions, to a European faith.”

— Nigel Cliff

“The European dream was dead, he thought, the Europe of grand ideals was buried in the ashes of apathy. There was no brotherhood of…

— Mark Samuels

“They are surely gods who speak to him With steady voices A glance from him drives men to their knees His sigh brings cities…

— S.U. Pacat

“He thought of such places in a way that had no words, only recognizing one when he came to it. He might have called…

— Diana Gabaldon

“He wasn’t a religious man but a vision of what Paradise might be came to him, a windowed room afloat on an endless sea,…

— Michael Crummey

“This “holy man,” a peasant from Siberia, had somehow gained entry to the highest levels of St. Petersburg society by preaching that people should…

— Gwendolyn Womack

“He visited the cathedral, and sat in its chilled light, pouring like water from above. He reminded himself that centuries ago men had built…

— Rachel Joyce

“a dream half-waking, broken and uneasy, of the small gods of small places; gods of hills and woods and streams and crossways; the gods…

— Mary Stewart

“The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic, it was not a place of myths allegorised or dissected…

— G.K. Chesterton

“From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in…

— Patricia J. Williams

“When I think of the Middle Ages I think of castles, Catholicism, and taking your kids to soccer practice.”

— Jarod Kintz

“He came down from the North to Paris with a mind like Aristotle's and a form like mortal sin. We shattered the Commandments on…

— James Goldman