But with regard to the deeds committed by your followers, tell me yourself--and I appeal to you reverend Father--what inspired them: Love or Hate." "Hate!" said Constantine gloomily; and Eusebius added sorrowfully "In these dark days our Faith is seen under an aspect that by no means fairly represents its true nature, noble lady; trust my words! Have you not yourself seen, even in your short life, that what is highest and greatest can in its excess, be all that is most hideous?
A noble pride, if not kept within bounds, becomes overweening ambition; the lovely grace of humility degenerates into an indolent sacrifice of opinion and will; high-hearted enterprise into a mad chase after fortune, in which we ride down everything that comes in the way of success.

What is nobler than a mother's love, but when she fights for her child she becomes a raving Megaera.

In the same way the Faith--the consoler of hearts--turns to a raging wild-beast when it stoops to become religious partisanship.
If you would really understand Christianity you must look neither down to the deluded masses, and those ambitious worldlings who only use it as a means to an end by inflaming their baser passions, nor up to the throne, where power translates the impulse of a disastrous moment into sinister deeds.

If you want to know what true and pure Christianity is, look into our homes, look at the family life of our fellow believers.
I know them well, for my humble functions lead me into daily and hourly intercourse with them.

Look to them if you purpose to give your hand to a Christian and make your home with him.