#crusades

Men of God are not just born, they are formed ↗

— John Paul Warren

#john-paul #john-paul-warren #leadership #pastor-john-paul-warren #voice-of-the-nations

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

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I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#crusades #equality #goodness #openmindedness #religion

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans. ↗

— Howard Fineman

#even #good #good idea #idea #like

The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it. ↗

— J. G. Stedman

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If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message. ↗

— Moustapha Akkad

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The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation. ↗

— David Hume

#age

It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you! ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#fanaticism #freedom-of-religion #war #worship #freedom

I have learned that the harder you fall…the higher you bounce! ↗

— John Paul Warren

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