History

From [age three] on out, stories will not only entertain you, they will explain you to others and to yourself.

A friend of mine, lecturing in a theological college in Kenya, introduced his students to “The Quest for the Historical Jesus.” This, he said, was a movement of thought and scholarship that in its ear...

My brother, who attended a Bible College during a smart-alecky phase in his life, enjoyed shocking groups of believers by sharing his “life verse.” After listening to others quote pious phrases from P...

By many accounts the first Muslim in America was Estevancio of Azamor, a Moroccan guide for a Spanish expedition in 1528 that landed in Florida. A couple of centuries later, as many as a third of the ...

“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.

Unexpected Circumstances Strange days,  unexpected  times: a belief-defying announcement of a pregnancy, a wearying journey to be taxed, an uncomfortable birthing bed in a hewn out cleft in the rock ...

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.