Medieval Historian Inspirational Quotes (10)

History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies.

The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition

Jesus Christ is too important to be left to the theologians.

If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over a dying fire in the small hours, my purpose in writing them will have been attained.

History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.

The church is always more than a school. But the church cannot be less than a school.

Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history of western culture for almost twenty centuries... It is from his birth that most of the human race dates its calendars, it is by his name that millions curse and in his name that millions pray.

Problems cannot all be solved, for, as they are solved, new aspects are continually revealed: the historian opens the way, he does not close it.

Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it.