Sir Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Churchill (c. 1874-1965)

"We desire to see the return of a liberal age where Parliaments will guard freedom, where science will open the banqueting halls to the millions, and where what Bismarck once called 'practical Christianity' will mitigate suffering and misfortunes."

• From Sir Winston Churchill's "No Intervention In Spain" (January 8, 1937), in Winston S. Churchill Step By Step: Political Writings 1936-1939 (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015).

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Book of Psalms

The Book of Psalms (a multi-generational work likely finalized between the 6th and 3rd centuries BC)

"Whoever of you loves life
     and desires to see many good days,
keep your tongue from evil
     and your lips from speaking lies.
Turn from evil and do good;
     seek peace and pursue it."

--Psalms 34: 12-14 (New International Version, 1978, 2011)




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Severus of Minorca

Severus of Minorca (flourished c. 418)

"As I see it, you thirst for our blood, while we thirst for your salvation."

• Quote from Severus of Minorca's Letter on the Conversion of the Jews, translated by Scott Bradbury (Clarendon Press, 1996), and reprinted in Christianity in Late Antiquity, edited by Bart D. Ehrman and Andrew S. Jacobs
  (Oxford University Press, 2004).

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Saint Teresa of Avila

Saint Teresa of Avila (c. 1515-1582)

"My head sounds just as if it were full of brimming rivers, and then as if all the water in those rivers came suddenly rushing downward; and a host of little birds seem to be whistling, not in the ears, but in the upper part of the head, where the higher part of the soul is said to be."

• From Interior Castle (Fourth Mansions, chapter I) by St. Teresa of Avila, translated by E. Allison Peers (Dover Publications, 2007).

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Saint Teresa of Avila

Saint Teresa of Avila (c. 1515-1582)

"Let us leave our reason and our fears in His hands and let us forget the weakness of our nature which is apt to cause us so much worry."

• From Interior Castle (Third Mansions, chapter II) by St. Teresa of Avila, translated by E. Allison Peers (Dover Publications, 2007). 

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Saint Teresa of Avila

Saint Teresa of Avila (c. 1515-1582)

"Oh, the secrets of God! I should never weary of trying to describe them to you. If I thought I could do so successfully. I do not mind if I write any amount of nonsense, provided that just once in a way I can write sense, so that we may give great praise to the Lord."

• From Interior Castle (Fifth Mansions, chapter I) by St. Teresa of Avila, translated by E. Allison Peers (Dover Publications, 2007).

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Justin Martyr

Justin Martyr (c. 100-165)

"Reason dictates that those who are truly pious and philosophers should honor and love only the truth, declining to follow the opinions of the ancients, if they are worthless."

• Justin Martyr's "First Apology" (chapter 2), translated by Leslie William Barnard in After The New Testament: A Reader In Early Christianity, edited by Bart D. Ehrman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Bede

Bede (c. 673-735)

"If some people of whatever rank or order try to hold back or hinder your good beginnings, do you for your part, mindful of heavenly reward, strive to bring to a firm conclusion your purposeful and holy policy."

• From Bede's letter to Bishop (later Archbishop) Egbert of York, dated to May 26, 734. Included in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People (and relevant letters), translated by Leo Sherley-Pride, R. E. Latham and D. H. Farmer (Penguin Classics, 2003).

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The Didache

The Didache (anonymously-written Christian text, created around year 100)

"Every prophet who teaches the truth but fails to practice what he preaches is a false prophet."

• The anonymously-written Didache ("The Teaching," c. 100 CE), chapter 11, section 10, translated by Cyril C. Richardson (1970) in After The New Testament: A Reader In Early Christianity, edited by Bart D. Ehrman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

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St. Teresa of Avila

St. Teresa of Avila (c. 1515-1582)

"The soul remains all the time in that centre with its God. We might say that union is as if the ends of two wax candles were joined so that the light they give is one: the wicks and the wax and the light are all one."

• From Interior Castle (Seventh Mansions, chapter II) by St. Teresa of Avila, translated by E. Allison Peers (Dover Publications, 2007).

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The Didache

The Didache (anonymously-written Christian text, created around year 100)

"Do not hate anybody; but reprove some, pray for others, and still others love more than your own life."

• The anonymously-written Didache ("The Teaching," c. 100 CE), chapter 2, section 7, translated by Cyril C. Richardson (1970) in After The New Testament: A Reader In Early Christianity, edited by Bart D. Ehrman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

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The Gospel of Truth (from the Nag Hammadi Library)

The Gospel of Truth (Gnostic Christian text written before the year 180 and rediscovered in the Nag Hammadi Library in 1945) 

"In time Unity will perfect the spaces. It is within Unity that each one will attain himself; within knowledge he will purify himself from multiplicity into Unity, consuming matter within himself like fire, and darkness by light, death by life."

• From "The Gospel of Truth" (c. 180 or older), rediscovered in the Nag Hammadi Library c. 1945, translated by Harold W. Altridge and George W. Macroe. Lieden: E. J. Brill, 1985.

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Book of Pslams

The Book of Psalms (a multi-generational work likely finalized between the 6th and 3rd centuries BC)

"Whoever is pregnant with evil
     conceives trouble and gives birth to disillusionment.

Whoever digs a hole and scoups it out
     falls into the pit they have made.

The trouble they cause recoils on them;
     their violence comes down on their own heads."

-Psalms 7:14-16 (New International Version, 1978, 2011)




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The Didache

The Didache (anonymously-written Christian text, created around year 100)

"Do not be one who holds his hand out to take, but shuts it when it comes to giving."

• The anonymously-written Didache ("The Teaching," c. 100 CE), translated by Cyril C. Richardson (1970) in After The New Testament: A Reader In Early Christianity, edited by Bart D. Ehrman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Macarius the Great

Macarius the Great (sayings recorded between 4th and 6th century)

"Like the dead, take no account of either the scorn of men or their praises, and you can be saved."

• Quote attributed to the 4th-century Egyptian ascetic, Macarius the Great, in Sayings of the Desert Fathers, edited and translated by Sister Benedicta Ward, Cistercian Studies, 1975.

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Pope Gregory I "The Great"

Pope Gregory I (c. 540-604)

"My very dear sons, it is better never to undertake any high enterprise than to abandon it when once begun."

• From a letter sent by Pope Gregory I to St. Augustine of Canterbury (c. 596) when the members of the mission to Britain appealed to come home early, included in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People (and relevant letters), translated by Leo Sherley-Pride, R. E. Latham and D. H. Farmer (Penguin Classics, 2003).

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Nithard

Nithard (Frankish nobleman, c. 790s-844/845)

"Once there was abundance and happiness everywhere, now everywhere there is want and sadness. Once even the elements smiled on everything and now they threaten, as Scripture which was left to us as the gift of God, testifies: And the world will wage war against the mad."

• Nithard’s Histories in the Carolingian Chronicles translated by Bernhard Scholz and Barbara Rogers. Ann Arbor Paperbacks / University of Michigan Press, 1972.

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Saint Augustine

St. Augustine (c. 354-430)

"You know indeed how to pull down old structures and build new ones' you, though, have remained in the old, worn-out ruins of yourself, where you should have been pulling down the old structures in yourself, so that you would no longer savor the things of earth."

• From The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century, Part III, vol. 10, translated by Edmund Hill. Sermon: St. Augustine's "Sermon on the Dispute with the Donatists."

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Ignatius of Antioch

Ignatius of Antioch (martyred around 110)

"May I have the good fortune to meet my fate without interference!"

• From the "Letter of Ignatius to the Romans" translated by Cyril C. Richardson (1970) in After The New Testament: A Reader In Early Christianity, edited by Bart D. Ehrman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

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The Malleus Maleficarum

Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger (published 1487)

"It is to be said that the soul is thought to reside in the centre of the heart, in which it communicates with all the members by an outpouring of life."

• From The Malleus Maleficarum (Part II, Question I, Chapter IX) by Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger, translated by Montague Summers (Dover Publications, 1971).

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