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“Man revealed to the poet his inner greatness in the haunting sense of his limitations—he could not be self-sufficient (autárkês) as the Stoic urged; he depended on men, on women and children, on the beauty of grass and living creature, of the sea and sky. And even all these things could not satisfy his craving for love and fellowship; he felt a "hunger for the infinite." Here perhaps is the greatest contribution of Virgil to the life of the age. He,”
― T.R. Glover, The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire

“We may fail to explain it, but we must recognize it. One of the weaknesses of the Church to-day is--put bluntly--that Christians are not making enough of Jesus Christ.”
― T.R. Glover, The Jesus of History

“The eunuch priests of Cybele and the monks of Serapis introduced a new abstinence to Western thought. It is significant that Christian monasticism and the coenobite life began in Egypt, where, as we learn from papyri found in recent years, great monasteries of Serapis existed long before our era. Side by side with celibacy came vegetarianism. No”
― T.R. Glover, The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire

“The kind Apollo (ho phílos)," he says, "seems to heal the questions of life, and to resolve them, by the rules he gives to those who ask; but the questions of thought he himself suggests to the philosophic temperament, waking in the soul an appetite that will lead it to truth."[”
― T.R. Glover, The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire

“What the Greek called "Panic" fears were attributed in Italy to Fauns.[ 37] "Trees,”
― T.R. Glover, The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire

“Knowledge of men, but without cynicism, a loving heart still in spite of his freedom from illusions—these are among the gifts that his environment gave him, or failed to take away from him.”
― T.R. Glover, The Jesus of History