Quotes of: Roman-catholic-church Keyword

That’s the way it is with Appian; things that appear ridiculous on average just might have happened, so they cannot be entirely dismissed.

The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal & the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic

Polybius managed to attach himself to the clan and person of Scipio Aemilianus, grandson of one of the two losing consuls at Cannae,

The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal & the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

What God said to Abraham was not 'Obey this law and I will bless you', but 'I will bless you; believe my promise'.

The Message of Romans: God's Good News for the World

When I got the invitation to be part of 'The Ghost' or 'The Ghost Writer,' as it's now known, from Mr. Roman Polanski, my interest level was very piqued. I was very excited and pleased to get such an offer from Mr. Roman Polanski.

Pierce Brosnan

We're talking about, essentially, the Roman historians, who wrote Cleopatra into the story mostly so that they could talk about the rise of Rome. And that is one of the problems, of course, in recounting her life. She's only ever apparent to us when ...

Stacy Schiff

The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one ...

Henry James Sumner Maine

In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.

Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.

Denial

God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces.

Denial

One need not be a rabid Anglican to be extremely sensible to the charm of an English country church...

English Hours

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

Blankets

I felt angry, frustrated. I felt I didn't belong, not in my, church, not in my home, not in my skin.

Burned

I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.

Bill McCartney

The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion in the members of his mystical body, the church in every age.

Pope Benedict XVI

When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.

Ernest Gaines

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

Adam Bede

The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.

Requiem: A Lament in Three Movements

Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic.

Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

She'd never been religious. She hadn't allowed grief to send her crawling to the church.

Specimen Days

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Self-Reliance and Other Essays