Character Quote by Thomas Keneally

“We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D—— on the score of orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul we feel…

— Victor Hugo

“Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Erasmus says that you should praise a ruler even for qualities he does not have. For the flattery gives him to think. And the…

— Hilary Mantel

“About all that Lutherans, Calvinists, Anglicans and Anabaptists agreed upon was the divinity of Jesus and the wickedness of the pope.”

— Rodney Stark

“The skaa called Sazed holy, but at that moment he realized that he was the most profane of men. He was a creature who…

— Brandon Sanderson

“Virtue is a priest, kindness is a bishop, faith is a pope, and love is a religion.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Eventually, I realized that social justice, kindness, and honesty didn’t have to come from the theology in which I’d been raised. In fact, not…

— Aaron Hartzler

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one…

— William Hutchison Murray

“It is often said that one’s theology is not tenable unless it can be preached at the gates of Auschwitz.”

— Austin Fischer

“Van Kessel was an unusual man. He had a huge heart. He was deeply pious, but that faith was built on the idea that…

— Carl Hoffman

“I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religous.…

— Mark Twain

“Religion, so far as it is genuine, is in essence the response of created personalities to the Creating Personality, God.”

— A.W. Tozer