The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.

Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.

Sometimes they reasoned thus: "The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such a thing." At other times, by an inverse process, it was said: "Such a thing has happened to Jesus; now Jesus is the Messiah; therefore such a thing was to happen to the Messiah."

The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.