Steven Runciman Quotes:

The Patriarch Joseph, after agreeing with the Latins that their formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Son meant the same as the Greek formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding through the Son, fell ill and died. An unkind scholar remarked that after muddling his prepositions what else could he decently do?

Topics: Latin, Son, Greek, Prepositions, Proceeding

Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears

Topics: Hard Work, Rewards, Riches

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destinies of man.

source: - Steven Runciman (1951). “A History of the Crusades: Volume 1, The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem”, p.13, CUP Archive

Topics: Believe, Writing, Destiny