Athanasius

“the remains of Yaroslav the Wise disappeared from Kyiv in 1944, during the German occupation of the city. By some accounts, they ended up in the hands of Ukrainian Orthodox hierarchs in the United States and were spotted in Manhattan after the war. Some suspect that they may now be in the Church of the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn.”
― Serhii Plokhy, The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

“The Orthodox intellectuals of the commonwealth, long without a king of their own, embraced the opportunity to enter an idealized Orthodox world inspired by the Byzantine vision of symphony between an autocratic ruler and the one true church.”
― Serhii Plokhy, The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

“Thank God!’ said Wimsey. ‘Where there is a church, there is civilisation.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Nine Tailors

“He never flinched, he never cringed, but he died as one would wish all Englishmen to die—quietly and undramatically,”
― Martin Gilbert, The First World War: A Complete History