Top 5 Ramsay MacMullen Quotes
#1. All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute de mieux, are tied up, marched away to the provincial capital, severely tortured, and all killed mala morte, 'a great number.'
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#2. It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.
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#3. ...god contradicts his own perfection if he can be reached, touched, disturbed, or in any way changed from it by anything in this material world below.
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#4. More Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians
than had died before in all the persecutions.
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#5. Simplicity could only have been bought at a great price in accuracy.
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