Quotes about History
The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.
— Samuel Marinus Zwemer
Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.
— Pope John Paul II
It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.
— Mark Batterson
Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.
— Charles Spurgeon
Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:England hath need of thee: she is a fenOf stagnant waters.
— William Wordsworth
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
— Winston Churchill
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
— Winston Churchill
The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.
— Winston Churchill
We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.
— Winston Churchill
The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars England—he should have said Britain, of course—always wins one battle—the last.
— Winston Churchill
I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
— Winston Churchill