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“The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.”

Years War Church Periods Hundred Crisis Unity Broke Medieval

Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“Can the "word" be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.”

Mind Courses Church Periods Unseen Unsuccessful

Book:Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries

Source: Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries

“I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our church once appallingly described it -- filled me with a greater terror than the concept of extinction.”

Ideas Used Church Religious Greater Stupid Periods Concepts Filled Terror Intense Ministers Everlasting Extinction Visiting Sixteen Never Ending Banquets Everlasting Life

Book:East Side Story: A Novel

Source: East Side Story: A Novel

“God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?”

Firsts Doe Church Periods Servant Englishmen Reformation

Author:John Milton

“When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me to the Catholic church is that in Catholicism, prayer suffuses all of one's life by virtue of the sacraments. Prayer is not something which occurs just on Sunday, it doesn't occur only at particular moments of intensity or by particular conventions, one's whole life is given up to prayer in many, many modes. And so everything to do with the faith is trying to put you in relationship with God and trying to make that relationship grow deeper and more mature.”

“Worship is not a twenty minute period during a church service, but a lifestyle of relating to God in a particular way.”

Way Church Minutes Particular Periods Worship Twenties Lifestyle Connecting With God Christian Service Church Service

Book:After God's Own Heart: The Key to Knowing and Living God's Passionate Love for You

Source: After God's Own Heart: The Key to Knowing and Living God's Passionate Love for You

“There are about 360,000 churches in America, so we could mentor a million kids within a short period of time if everyone signed on, which, of course, is a pipedream, but we're going to reach toward that.”

Ifs Kids America Courses Church Millions Periods Mentor

Author:Donald Miller

“I always say that no matter what the torture is, or the tool is, first of all it's nothing worse than what's been done already and that wasn't done by the church and the state for over a period of 250 years during the European witch trials.”

Years Firsts Matter States Done Church Periods Tools No Matter What Trials Torture Witch Witch Trials

Author:Eli Roth