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“Saladin even paid for the ransom of some of the Franks, as his personal almsgiving. The Christians were so positively impressed by this humaneness…

— Mustafa Akyol

“Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti turned their backs on the old religion and introduced the worship of Aten. Historians believe that it was they…

— Adam Brown

And We made them Imams who guided (people) by Our command, and We revealed to them the doing of good and the keeping up…

— Quran

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.

— Frank Herbert

The grateful applause of the clergy has consecrated the memory of a prince, who indulged their passions and promoted their interest. Constantine gave them…

— Edward Gibbon

“When Christianity proscribed the public exercise of the ancient worships, the partisans of the latter were compelled to meet in secret for the celebration…

— Éliphas Lévi

“The simple thesis of this book is, “The fundamental responsibility of church leaders is to shepherd God’s flock.”

— Timothy Z. Witmer

“to tell the world of its true Centre, of the law of mutual sacrifice by which its parts are bound together. The Church exists…

— Mark Chapman

“Their focus was firstly on God and the kingdom through their personal connection to the church, and everything else came later. If God is…

— Tyler Edwards

“It was mainly developed as a political device to help build the power of the orthodox church and to help overcome the influence of…

— Dolores Cannon

Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

“by my mother I am of the royal blood; for the children of Asamoneus, from whom that family was derived, had both the office…

— Flavius Josephus