Influence Quote by John Foxe

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions...…

— George Santayana

Lenin, Stalin, and Rakosi recognized that a renewed and purified Christianity was the only force that could move the masses as powerfully as the…

— Charles Colson

The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“If there is one fable, which would seem entitled to escape the analysis, which we have undertaken of religious poems and sacred legends, by…

— Anonymous

“Steris had called the Path a simple religion. Perhaps it was. There was only one basic tenet: Do more good than harm. There were…

— Brandon Sanderson

The faith engaged with Platonism in the ancient world, with Aristotle in the medieval world, with nominalism in the Reformation era, and with rationalism…

— Robert E. Webber

“The substance of all such paganism may be summarised thus. It is an attempt to reach the divine reality through the imagination alone; in…

— G.K. Chesterton

The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence…

— Carroll Quigley

The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.

— Ray Bradbury

It was the fashion of the times to attribute every remarkable event to the particular will of the Deity; the alterations of nature were…

— Edward Gibbon

Men had made, we believe, fundamental changes in the doctrines, purposes, and practices of the Pristine Gospel and Church. There had been an apostasy,…

— Lowell L. Bennion

We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word . . .…

— Martin Luther King, Jr