“There is no greater drama in human record than the sight of a few Christians scorned or oppressed by a succession of emperors, bearing all trials by a fierce tenacity, multiplying quietly, building order while their enemies generated chaos, fighting the sword with the Word, brutality with hope, and at last defeating the strongest state that history has ever known. Caesar and Christ had met in the arena and Christ had won.”
Will Durant, Caesar and Christ (1944)
All the armies that have ever marched All the navies that have ever sailed All the parliaments that have ever sat All the kings that ever reigned put together Have not affected the life of mankind on earth As powerfully as that one solitary life.
From One Solitary Life
I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.
H. G. Wells
O felix culpa quae talem et tantum meruit habere redemptorem
Exsultet, Easter Vigil
No myth is filled with such life.
Such life, that hundreds of thousands have been martyred for this one solitary life.
The author of Life writes in union with souls who, out of trust, allow their pages to be written.
What an honor to belong to God.
True: The Gospels are Alive. With Jesus Christ.
True God and true man. Christ with us.