Quotes about History

Everyone knows that there are thirteen stripes to represent the original thirteen colonies and fifty stars, each representing one of the fifty states. But what you may not know is that red represents hardness and valor. White represents purity and innocence. And blue represents perseverance, vigilance, and justice.

Only through the careful study of historical documents can we prevent the distortion of where we came from and who we are as a nation.

God does not save us to make us forget our heritage, but to complete it.

powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past.

A powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past.

We're too flawed and too challenged by history, circumstance, and chemistry to hoard grace for long.

The notion that the mind and body are actually different sides of the same coin goes all the way back to the origins of medicine. For most of its history, the practice was not separated from other aspects of human activity.

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.

Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox - a true church with sound fundamental doctrines as well as significant error.

How else account this usage, that enemies of yore may, by the passage of years alone, become friends?

Memoirs of the North Africa campaign attest that, fierce and brutal as much of the fighting was, relations between individual enemies retained a quality of forbearance that seems, today, almost impossible to imagine. This

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.