Body Quote by Timothy Keller

The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and…

— Barbara Tuchman

Money was their God; work their religion.

— Gene Stratton-Porter

People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and they were…

— Andrew Greeley

Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity…

— Camille Paglia

“When exactly did this all change, and what were the social and theological factors that led to the change? The answer seems to be…

— Ben Witherington III

Certainly in Catholic countries, the peasantry have always found ways to integrate pagan things in a way that makes it a little bit easier…

— Robert Eggers

“As the biggest property owners of the middle ages the Church underwent the same process as the rest of the landed proprietors. In order…

— Franz Mehring

“Too often scholars have thought and even suggested that what happened during and after Constantine was that the church sought to replace the pagan…

— Ben Witherington III

The Catholic religion at the time was much darker and more mysterious. The entire mass was in Latin. The church was - if you…

— Bruce Springsteen

“The fun-raising adjunct to many church bazaars is commonly known as a carnival, which used to mean the celebration of the flesh; now a…

— Anton Szandor LaVey

The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.

— Leonard Ravenhill

“The ultimate triumph of Christianity was aided by the internal drive within Roman paganism toward some kind of monotheism. By 150 A.D., whatever vitality…

— Norman F. Cantor