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The gospel is not something partial or piecemeal: it takes in the whole life, the whole of history, the whole world. It tells us about creation and the final judgment and everything in between.
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.
— Kathie Lee Gifford
In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history.
— Donald Trump
If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.
— John F. Kennedy
You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
Too often, however, we tend to read these accounts merely as biblical history without relating them to our lives and our situations. But
— Jerry Bridges
We cannot separate the history of a nation from the people of that nation.
— Jerry Bridges
God recorded in His Word specific instances of His sovereign rule over history in order that we might trust Him in the affairs of history as they unfold before us today.
— Jerry Bridges
And we should remember that God works in history from an eternal perspective, whereas we tend to view the outworking of history from a temporal perspective.
— Jerry Bridges
our innate tendency to think our country is always right. We assume that God will bless our side with victory. The Bible does not support such a view. In fact, according to biblical history, God sometimes uses an evil nation to punish another one, then in turn punishes the first nation for its sin.
— Jerry Bridges
But, in fact, because of so many black peoples' unthinking allegiance to the Democratic Party (which is absolutist on abortion and does not permit serious expressions of pro-life sentiment), black people fail to recognize the clear similarity between their history and the plight of the pre-born today, and are some of the most ardent supporters of abortion on demand.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
Are you a communist? No I am an anti-fascist For a long time? Since I have understood fascism.
— Ernest Hemingway