Bible Quote by Lafcadio Hearn

What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and…

— Thomas Pynchon

The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories,…

— Antonin Artaud

It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed…

— Alice Walker

“By the seventh century, Christianity probably was far stronger and more sophisticated in North Africa and Asia than in Europe.”

— Rodney Stark

European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it is as…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“early modern Christianity is often portrayed as an essentially European religion. This is regrettable because classic Christianity has its pre-European roots in cultures that…

— Thomas C. Oden

For ten centuries Christianity, armed with the omnipotence of the Church and State and opposed by no competition, was able to deprave, debase, and…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Europe as a whole is increasingly jesttisoning the old path of the Christian fathers.

— David Wilkerson

“Because we are not in a civilization which believes strongly in oracles or sacred places, we see the full frenzy of those who killed…

— G.K. Chesterton

“The more we study the catastrophes and endings that befell individual churches in particular eras, the better we appreciate the surprising new births that…

— Philip Jenkins

“The disasters of the late Middle Ages tore Christianity from its roots—cultural, geographical, and linguistic. This “uprooting” created the Christianity that we commonly think…

— Philip Jenkins

“It is in Christianity that our arts have developed; it is in Christianity that the laws of Europe--until recently--have been rooted. It is against…

— T.S. Eliot