Henry Chadwick > Quotes

“Nothing is sadder than someone who has lost his memory, and the church which has lost its memory is in the same state of senility.”
― Henry Chadwick

“What they (Americans) do, they want to be in a hurry.”
― Henry Chadwick

“[Mani] deleted as interpolations all texts in the New Testament that assumed either the order and goodness of matter or the inspiration and authority of the Old Testament. Otherwise he thought his expurgated New Testament a sound book.”
― Henry Chadwick, Augustine: A Very Short Introduction

“Celsus was the first known person to realize that this non-political, quietist, and pacifist community had it in its power to transform the social and political order of the empire.”
― Henry Chadwick, The Early Church

“To share in this sacred meal was so deeply felt to be the essential expression of membership of the society that fragments of the broken bread were taken round to any who were absent through illness or imprisonment.”
― Henry Chadwick, The Early Church

“Tertullian argued that the Bible is often difficult to interpret. Obscure passages must be interpreted by those which are plain.”
― Henry Chadwick, The Early Church