Quotes about History

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

I'd never imagined I had the opportunity to play with Tom Brady, the greatest athlete in sports history.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ.

The history of the church has been largely a history of "believers" refusing to believe in the way of the crucified Nazarene and instead giving in to the very temptations he resisted--power, relevancy, spectacle.

the church was an international institution long before globalization.

It was the cry of grace, of agonizing, scandalous love. Those same words would be heard over and over from the mouths of martyrs and Christians throughout history. They

Many of us have learned history by studying wars and violence; we organize it by the reigns of kings and presidents. But in Jesus, we reorder history. We date it from his visit to earth and examine it through a new lens — identifying with the tortured, the displaced, the refugee, and remembering the nonviolent revolutions on the margins of empires.

The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history.

There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.

The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.