Matthew Scott

“(Speaking of Jesus) His manner of teaching though, was nothing like that of a philosopher. Those who paraded their virtue and condemned the faults of others, he dismissed as painted tombs heaving with maggots and corruption. The standards of virtue he preached - to love one's enemy, to abandon all one's worldly goods - were so demanding as to seem impossible to meet. He was peculiarly tender with sinners. He dined with Jews who violated the law and talked beside wells with adulterers.”
― Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

“He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies”
― Tertullian

“If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.”
― Tertullian

“What kept you at the oasis was your own fear that you might never come back”
― Paul Coelho