Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem Quotes

“He wrote that it was “the Holy Spirit who encouraged me with a radiance of marvelous illumination from his Holy Scriptures”; that “was the fire that burned within me when I came to visit Your Highnesses.”33”
― Carol Delaney, Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem: How Religion Drove the Voyages that Led to America

“I believe that in the world there are no better people or a better land. They love their neighbors as themselves, and they have the sweetest speech in the world and [they are] gentle and always laughing”
― Carol Delaney, Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem: How Religion Drove the Voyages that Led to America