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“We have devoted ourselves to the government and extension of the Church, and, among other objects, we have conceived it to be our duty to foster especially literature and the fine arts ... next to knowledge and true worship of the Creator, nothing is better or more useful to mankind than such studies.”

Art Government Next Literature Church Study Mankind Objects Duty Fine Worship Creator Devoted Extensions Fine Arts True Worship

Author:Pope Leo X

“The apostles were scattered, and even the leaders of the Church in Jerusalem had neither the power nor the means to impose uniformity.In these circumstances, we must imagine the literature of Christianity as spreading gradually, irregularly, and in a manner which variations inevitable.”

Mean Literature Church Leader Christianity Imagine Circumstances Inevitable Variation Apostles Jerusalem Uniformity

Author:Frederic G. Kenyon

“Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.”

Form Literature House Church Views Numbers Rounds Towers Chimneys Abbey Westminster Spires Steeples Westminster Abbey

Book:Travels in England in 1782

Source: Travels in England in 1782

“The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.”

Literature Church Millions College Presses Exclusive Printing

Author:Wendell Phillips

“Christendom never came from an unbroken grave. It would have been buried in that grave, as Judas thought it was going to be, and as the Jews thought it was going to be, except there had been a resurrection from the dead. Then you can explain Christendom, churches, and literatures, if Christ rose again; but otherwise they cannot be explained at all. Our whole civilization rests on the broken Cross of the Master, and it is incredible that a civilization like this, in a world advancing steadily for eighteen centuries, has been founded on a lie.”

“To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic an event was unmentioned and unnoticed not only in the rich historical literature of medieval Islam, but even in the literatures of the Coptic and other Christian churches, of the Byzantines, of the Jews, or anyone else who might have thought the destruction of a great library worthy of comment. That the story still survives, and is repeated, despite all these objections, is testimony to the enduring power of a myth.”

“I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? I read the King James Bible, as all English writers should. And when I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.”

Bigs Literature Church Religious Atheism Asking Atheist Edits Hymns Mould Big Questions

Author:Mark Haddon

“These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and any broad literary stroke with outright hate. The result is a strange and arid literary climate where a meaningless little fingernail paring like Nicholson Baker's Vox becomes an object of fascinated debate and dissection, and a truly ambitious American novel like Matthew's Heart of the Country is all but ignored.”

“Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.”

People Religion Literature Church Theater Remains Devotion Public Service

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.”

Trying May Truth Lying Literature Church Moral Distinction Telling The Truth Academy Academia

Book:Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature

Source: Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature

“In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of church reform. Anne was a passionate and sincere evangelical, the owner of a library of controversial reformist literature, and she was sympathetic to radical and even Lutheran ideas.”

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Author:Alison Weir

“It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.”

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Book:The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

“My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.”

Mother Father Literature Names Church Dad Catholic My Dad Protestants

Author:Mickey Spillane

“If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.”

Ifs Wells States Might Literature Church Well Being Guarantees Household Church And State

Author:Francis Bacon