Aggressive Quote by Mary McCarthy

Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive.

— Jeff Cooper

When I think of some of the great renewals in the church I think of folks like St. Francis and Clare of Assisi who,…

— Shane Claiborne

When the Church obtained the direction of the civil power, she soon modified or abandoned the tolerant maxims she had formerly inculcated; and, in…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Catholics are born for combat.

— Pope Leo XIII

“The battle must be fought exactly as the battle of religious toleration was fought. And as in that case, so in this, a decay…

— Bertrand Russell

“Centuries later, it is often presumed that such a pious tone and environment would create boredom, cynicism, and even open rebellion among any militia.…

— Donald Spoto

The Catholic Church, though I think it's important that people grow up with moral values, I just always disagreed with their tactics, which I…

— Ronnie James Dio

“True Christian fortitude consists in strength of mind, through grace, exerted in two things; in ruling and suppressing the evil and unruly passions and…

— Jonathan Edwards

“Origen was most articulate about this struggle. “For you who are redeemed by Christ,” he challenged believers in Caesarea, “a physical sword has been…

— Alan Kreider

“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

“Christianity, expecting from its adherents gentleness, meekness, peaceableness, forgiveness of injuries, turning the other cheek when one is struck, and love for enemies, is…

— Leo Tolstoy