Quotes about History
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
— Albert Schweitzer
In the New Testament, myth stands over against the truth of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has ... been already cast in the New Testament opposition to myth.
— GC Berkouwer
Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
— Pope John Paul II
Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.
— Elie Wiesel
Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.
— Henry David Thoreau
The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.
— Joseph Addison
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.
— Mark Twain
It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.
— William Barclay
...oppression is as American as apple pie...
— Audre Lorde
Racism is not first and foremost a skin problem. It is a sin problem. See, when you believe that racism is a skin problem, you can take three hundred years of slavery, court decisions, marches, and the federal government involvement and still not get it fixed right.
— Tony Evans
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
— James A. Garfield
love is just a history that they may prove and when your gone ill tell them my religion is you
— Lady Gaga