Greg Young

“Vella Shpringa—the world’s only Amish running club.”
― Christopher McDougall, Running with Sherman: How a Rescue Donkey Inspired a Rag-tag Gang of Runners to Enter the Craziest Race in America

“There he accepted the advice of his old tutor, A.D. Lindsay, now Master, that he should have all his teeth taken out, as this was the cure for blindness. He developed blood poisoning and died at the age of 43. Academic philosophers should not give medical advice.”
― Walter Reid, Empire of Sand: How Britain Made the Middle East

“As a result, not only are most Americans (increasingly) ignorant of the contents of the Bible, but they are also almost completely in the dark about what scholars have been saying about the Bible for the past two centuries.”
― Bart D. Ehrman, Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible

“Every Saturday and every holiday morning,” wrote Adolph, “saw us all at the synagogue. I suppose Jesus Christ did the same, because the New Testament tells us that he drove the money-changers from the Temple and that at times he preached in the synagogue.” He added, somewhat slyly: “As a pious Jew, he must have attended the synagogue, although I suppose that toward the end of his life the authorities would not let him preach. Perhaps if he were to appear today and preach as radically as he did then, he would not be allowed in the more conservative Christian churches.”
― Stephen Birmingham, Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York