life on planet earth on History

“In historical time, Christmas happened over two thousand years ago in Bethlehem; in theological time, Christmas happens now, in the mystery of God choosing to dwell within humankind, a mystery that t...

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.

History, n. an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Today is Yesterday's Pupil.

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, bu...

We Americans seem to know everything about the last twenty-four hours but very little of the past sixty centuries or the last sixty years.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Theaim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included in that community as its prime sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.

“When you see a thing like that, a thing that becomes a newsreel, you begin to feel you are a carrier of some solemn scrap of history.”

A people with no memory of its past is like a mature man who has lost all recollection of his youth.

Christianity appeals to history, and to history it must go.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant...

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living hand to mouth.

All great historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice ... the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

And history with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

To comprehend modern times well, it is necessary to comprehend ancient times well.

Most historical characters worth studying are so because they held mindsets that formed significant variations on the parent worldview.

History shows that when the church uses the tools of the world's kingdom, it becomes as ineffectual, or as tyrannical, as any other power structure. And whenever the church has intermingled with t...

One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentious, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for...

History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes.

Decay of libraries is like Alzheimer's in the nation brain.