What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

It is certain because it is possible.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

Christians are made, not born.

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

The nature of rumor is known to all.

The entire fruit is already present in the seed.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

It is certain because it is impossible.

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.

He who flees will fight again.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

See how these Christians love one another.

Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.

To forbid birth is only quicker murder. He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.

All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced...the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.

All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced...the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.

So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.