Church Quote by Justo L. Gonzalez

It is certain that the truth of the Christian faith becomes more evident the more the faith itself is known. Therefore, the doctrine should…

— John Wycliffe

Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin.

— Bruce Sterling

“Even after the Hellenistic empire of Alexander’s successors was supplanted by that of the Latin-speaking Romans, the usual linguistic development – the language of…

— Dimitri Gutas

“If you ask me if I know how to speak Latin, I’ll say, “No, it’s all Greek to me.”

— Jarod Kintz

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose…

— Robert Fitzgerald

Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet…

— Havelock Ellis

Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.

— Juvenal

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

— Ben Jonson

In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centering on the living Christ. Then the church moved to Greece where…

— Richard Halverson

Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.

— Oliver Stone

I think that in the past there has been a kind of cultural resistance to Latin because it's associated with elitism.

— Munira Mirza

“Christian monks and nuns were, in effect, the guardians of culture, as they were virtually the only people who could read and write before…

— Ronald Carter