WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:02:01 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Lecky, William – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Lecky, William -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/lecky-william/2416/ https://wist.info/lecky-william/2416/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=2416 There is no wild beast so ferocious as Christians who differ concerning their faith.


William Lecky (1838-1903) Irish historian
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/lecky-william/2416/feed/ 0 2416 Lecky, William -- History of European Morals, Vol. 2, ch. 4 (1869) https://wist.info/lecky-william/35982/ https://wist.info/lecky-william/35982/#respond Wed, 18 Jan 2017 21:14:18 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=35982 It had been boldly predicted by some of the early Christians that the conversion of the world would lead to the establishment of perpetual peace. In looking back, with our present experience, we are driven to the melancholy conclusion that, instead of diminishing the number of wars, ecclesiastical influence as actually and very seriously increased it.


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