Burt

“It would have been better if the horsemen had kept their distance, using their javelins, but it was too much to expect prudence and good sense when three officers were together.”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, The Encircling Sea

“There was cunning in his eyes, the cleverness of a child who thought only of himself and how to get what he wanted.”
― Adrian Goldsworthy, The Encircling Sea

“Christ’s nature was a cause for which people were prepared to kill and to die, to persecute or to suffer martyrdom”
― Philip Jenkins, Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years

“Our culture’s secular wisdom does not affirm the reality of the Spirit; the only reality about which it is certain is the visible world of our ordinary experience. Accordingly, it looks to the material world for satisfaction and meaning. Its dominant values are what I call the three A’s–achievement, affluence, and appearance. We live our lives in accord with these values, with both our self-worth and level of satisfaction dependent upon how well we measure up to these cultural messages.”
― Marcus J. Borg, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith