Quotes about History

Anglo-Saxons have a view that history is ordered and chronological, and I think that fed into the development of the realist middle-class novel. You know, the ones you read on your sofa with a nice cup of tea.

many pagans harbored ill feelings about Christians and widely believed them to be antisocial, contrary, incompliant, intolerant, narrow-minded, nonconformist, inflexible, obstinate, and uncompromising. That means if many Christians today feel like they take the brunt of hostility from an unbelieving world, they can rest assured that this has been felt by myriads of believers in times past.

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.

No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.

Well, Jem was to be a soldier and see a greater battle than had ever been fought in the world; but that was as yet far in the future; and the mother, whose first-born son he was, was wont to look on her boys and thank God that the brave days of old

big house to the slave quarters was nothing short of miraculous as far as

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

The prophets never taught that God and history are one, or that whatever happens below reflects the will of God above. Their vision is of man defying God, and God seeking man to reconcile with Him.