Wilde, verified
"a thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
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Erskine
"The only apostle who did not deserve proof was St. Thomas, and St. Thomas was the only apostle who got it."
Cyril Graham
"To die for one's theological beliefs is the worst use a man can make of his life, but to die for a literary theory!"
"Perhaps, by finding perfect expression for a passion, I had exhausted the passion itself."