Quotes about History
All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world.
— John Piper
The only person in history who did not deserve to suffer, suffered most.
— John Piper
Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment.
— John Piper
The one thing God is doing in all of redemptive history is to show forth his mercy in such a way that the greatest number of people will throughout eternity delight in him with all their heart, strength, and mind.
— John Piper
Christmas split history. Foretastes of the future abound. Drink deeply on what he achieved for us. And be filled with hope for all that is coming.
— John Piper
There is no portrait of Jesus in the New Testament as a merely human teacher of ethics. There is only the Lord of glory. The fulfiller of history. The judge of the universe.
— John Piper
Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.
— John Polkinghorne
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
— John Quincy Adams
This house will bear witness to his piety; this town, his birthplace, to his munificence; history to his patriotism; posterity to the depth and compass of his mind.
— John Quincy Adams
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
— John Quincy Adams
Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.
— John Quincy Adams
The papacy is just what prophecy declared that she would be, the apostasy of the latter times.
— Ellen White