Ecclesiastical History Quotes

#1. In reality, orthodoxy comes into being only after there are choices to be made, with competing, and mutually exclusive, options. Heresy is the choice that loses. Ecclesiastical history, like any other, is written by the victors.

Eric A. Eliason

#2. Must we make battlegrounds out of our children?

Sarah Perry

#3. In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.

Leopold Von Ranke

#4. At the end of a marriage, no one wins. There is only anger, sorrow, guilt, emptiness, and defeat.

Padma Lakshmi

#5. Thinking in terms of two realms understands the paired concepts worldy-Christia n, natural-superna tural, profane-sacred, rational-revela tions, as ultimate static opposites ... and fails to recognize the original unity of these opposites in the Christ-reality.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#6. If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person.

Flea

#7. Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.

George Agnew Reid

#8. Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history.

James Madison

#9. Yet... if we persuade intelligent youth to hold aloof from the Army in peace, we ought not to complain if we are not properly led in war

Charles McMoran Wilson Moran

#10. Well, it's really important to be honest with the person that you're seeing.

Thomas McDonell