Quotes about History

History is made by men and women of vision and courage. Tonight freedom is on the march.

America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety.

The past is what the present is doing now.

admire the ingenuity that goes into this but I am not at all convinced that such people have quite got the right end of the stick. Does God really want us to know, in exact detail, ancient Babylonian history? I suspect not. But I am confident that God does want us to know how people in circumstances of acute displacement, living with the fear and the anxiety of a persecuted minority, responded to a hostile state and a pagan power.

the fact that he offered his best. What they leave out of Abraham's history is dread; for to money I have no ethical obligation, but to the son the father has the highest and most sacred obligation. Dread, however, is a perilous thing for effeminate natures, hence they forget it, and in spite of that they want to talk about Abraham.

Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.

The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.

The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's evangelization hinges on prayer.

So this was all which these Pharisees and Scribes could see in the miracle of Christ's feeding the Multitude--that it had not been done according to Law! Most strange as it may seem, yet in the past history of the Church, and, perhaps, sometimes also in the present, this has been the only thing which some men have seen in the miraculous working of the Christ!

In Berlin evil came to them slowly and then all at once.

First they burned the books, then the people who wrote them, then those who read them.

I do not know if he had a name, but I called him North, an appellation I think Beck would have approved of, for it was the name the Dutch called the Hudson River when they first came here, when men set to changing the world in their image, and gave all the wild things their own names.