Christendom Quote by H. Richard Niebuhr

The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among…

— Brigham Young

The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.

— Walter Savage Landor

To large numbers of American citizens life in certain parts of the country becomes intolerably hazardous. They may be seized on any pretext, however…

— H. L. Mencken

“Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: 'If it's not about Christ,…

— Criss Jami

Now that they talk about Islam as being a violent faith, when you look at the history of Christendom, the Crusades and the many…

— Desmond Tutu

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

— Theodore Parker

“But Christendom was not merely a community of warriors or even a community of the nobility. It was a civilization! Unfortunately, for generations everyone…

— Rodney Stark

I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and not…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is Mind which determines the change of Society, and it was because the mind at work was a Catholic mind that the slave…

— Hilaire Belloc

I prayed for the first time in a very long time today. I explained to God that unless he wanted the Marxist-Islamic alliance and…

— Anders Behring Breivik

Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind.

— Edward Hicks

Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer