Constantine the Great Quotes
9 quotes from Constantine the Great — First Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity..
“With free minds, all are to worship their gods.”
“Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of all the habits formed by civilized man.”
“No man should be denied leave of attaching himself to the rites of the Christians, or to whatever other religion his mind directed him, that thus the supreme Divinity, to whose worship we freely devote ourselves, might continue to vouchsafe His favour and beneficence to us.”
“Aided by the divine power of God, beginning from the very borders of the ocean, I have aroused each nation of the world in succession to a well-grounded hope of security.”
“I myself was present, as one among yourselves — and far be it from me to deny that which is my greatest joy, that I am your fellow-servant — and every question received due and full examination, until that judgment which God, who sees all things, could approve, was brought to light.”
“By this saving sign I have delivered your city from the tyrant and restored liberty to the Senate and people of Rome.”
“When they are free to render supreme service to the Divinity, it is evident that they confer great benefit upon the affairs of state.”
“Such is our Saviour's grace, that no power of language seems adequate to describe the wondrous circumstance to which I am about to refer. For, that the monument of his most holy Passion, so long ago buried beneath the ground, should have remained unknown for so long a series of years, until its reappearance to his servants now set free... is a fact which truly surpasses all admiration.”
“Do you, therefore, receive with all readiness my determination on this behalf. I have thought it expedient to instruct your Prudence to order fifty copies of the sacred Scriptures, the provision and use of which you know to be most needful for the instruction of the Church, to be written on prepared parchment in a legible manner, and in a convenient, portable form, by professional transcribers thoroughly practiced in their art.”
