The Church Fathers were influential theologians, bishops and scholars whose writings explained key Christian doctrines in the early Church. The Church Fathers were afforded personal holiness, doctrinal orthodoxy, and religious titles for their proximity to the Apostles. There explanations were sought on ...
"Genius always finds itself a century too early." "Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get." "God enters by a private door into every individual." "God screens us evermore from premature ideas." "Good men must not obey the laws too well." ...
The harvest is great but the laborers are few. Who is then to reap the harvest in the fields of the Church when it is almost ripe? Will it be scattered on the ground by reason of the scarcity of the workers? Will it be reaped by Satan’s emissaries who are, unfortunately, both ...
Three third-century Christian saints named Valentine are mentioned in the early church catalogue of martyrs under the date of February 14. However, the common customs of courtship and romance associated with Saint Valentine's Day are not linked to any of the saints. The traditions originated in ...
the City in Fanchurch-street - to see a person sick of the sores carried close by me by Grace-church in a hackney-coach - my finding the Angell tavern at the lower end of Tower-hill shut up; and more then that, the alehouse at the Tower-stairs; and more then that, that the ...
• "Thebeginningis always today." About These Quotes Quote collection assembled byJone Johnson Lewis. Each quotation page in this collection and the entire collection of Jone Johnson Lewis. This is an informal collection assembled over many years. I regret that I am not be able to provide the...
theChurch of Englandand the monarchy. Also in his earlyyouthMilton composed letters in Latin verse. These letters, which range over many topics, are called elegies because they employ elegiac metre—a verse form, Classical in origin, that consists of couplets, the first line dactylic hexameter,...
Watts wrote more than 25 books and articles on subjects important to Eastern and Western religion, introducing the then-burgeoning youth culture to The Way of Zen , one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West , Watts proposed that Buddhism could be thought ...
Early life in Stratford Shakespeare's birthplaceBirthplace of William Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. Theparishregister of Holy Trinity Church inStratford-upon-Avon,Warwickshire, shows that he was baptized there on April 26, 1564; his birthday is traditionally celebrated on Apri...
… [The early efforts were] worked out almost wholly on top of my flat topped writing desk and with teacups, glasses, bottles and reagents I made myself. — George Washington Carver Manuscript fragment, no date, Box 1, George Washington Carver Papers. Cited in Linda O. McMurry, George ...