"The episcopal church was destined, inevitably, to grow further and further away from the Christian teaching of poverty and denial of worldly goods. It became more like an additional arm of secular administration."

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Source : "The Formation of Christendom". Book by Judith Herrin, 1987.

Judith Herrin

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“The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.”
“All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves with it, and people kneel down in a wave to pray to God. Five waves each day - one for each namaaz - ripple across the globe from longitude to longitude. The component elements change direction, like iron filings near a magnet - towards the house of God in Mecca.”
“Where weary folk toil, black with smoke, And hear but whistles scream, I went, all fresh from dawn and dew To carry them a dream. I went to bitter lanes and dark, Who once had known the sky, To carry them a dream-and found They had more dreams than I.”
“Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.”
“The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.”

Source : Georges Rodenbach, Mike Mitchell (2011). “Bruges-La-Morte”, p.13, SCB Distributors
“All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.”
“I never forget my three word mantra: "Never start caring."”
“A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.”

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