Quotes about History

I've done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I've done it, it's been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

We've got to move from membership to discipleship to being full-time Christians, not part-time saints. That means operating comprehensively on the value system of Heaven as we move about in history.

Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.

I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.

There's never been a presidency that's done so much in such a short period of time, and we haven't even started the big work yet.

Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors.

We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the history. Harmony takes work.

Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed.

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.