💬 Quotes

"The first is the blood of the martyrs, which is the seed of the Church."

"None can hurt us, unless we hurt ourselves."

"Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."

"Though they take away our estate, our bodies, and our lives, yet can they not hurt our souls, nor separate us from the love of God."

"Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masks and mummeries of the world."

"Blessed be the name of the Lord, who has permitted me to suffer this day for His name's sake, and to seal His truth with my blood."

"To them, wealth was not a good, but an evil; accumulation was not gain, but loss; and poverty was the highest condition of man, while the possession of gold and jewels was looked upon with absolute horror."

"Here, in this subterranean world, the sun never shone, yet there was a strange, perpetual light—a pale, lambent glow that seemed to emanate from the very rocks and atmosphere around us."

"Death, which we regard with such terror as the end of all things and the supreme penalty, was viewed by these people as the most desirable release, a transition to be sought with eagerness and celebration."

"It is strange how quickly civilized man adapts himself to the most impossible conditions when the instinct of self-preservation overmasters all the acquired habits of a lifetime."

"The manuscript itself, beaten out of thin sheets of copper and rolled into a cylinder, offered a silent testimony to human endurance and the desperate need to communicate across the void of solitude."

"In that inverted society, every human motive seemed turned upon its head, forcing me to question whether my own civilization was founded on eternal truths or merely the arbitrary customs of my race."

"Die Tugend ist also eine Mittelstellung, die sich auf das Richtige richtet."

"Das Glück ist eine Tätigkeitsweise der Seele gemäß der vollkommenen Tugend."

"Niemand ist freiwillig schlecht, noch ist jemand unfreiwillig selig."

"Die Freundschaft scheint das Band zu sein, das die Staaten zusammenhält."

"Das sittlich Gute wird um seiner selbst willen erstrebt und ist lobenswert."

"Die Vernunft ist in uns das Herrschende und das von Natur aus Führende."

"The greater the general peace of an organism, the less it tends to be affected by a changing external environment."

"You must not let your life run in the ordinary grooves; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's greatness resides in man."