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Patrick... understood that, though Christianity was not inextricably wedded to Roman custom, it could not survive without Roman literacy.

— Thomas Cahill How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995)

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The terms of this new religion, though based on Hebrew models, were Greek terms.

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003)

Human beings never know more than a part, as "through a glass darkly"; and all knowledge comes to us in pieces.

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003)

Ireland is unique in religious history for being the only land into which Christianity was introduced without bloodshed.

How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995)

If we are to be saved, it will not be by Romans but by saints.

How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995)

For me, the historian's principal task should be to raise the dead to life.

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003)

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Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].

Thomas Jefferson Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764)

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