Quotes about History

A spirituality that can contribute to the renewal of the church will be solidly trinitarian, as opposed to a mystical monism in which diversity in God is sacrificed to simplicity. It will also be historically oriented-rooted in concrete human history and directed to the transformation of history into eternity.

The gospel is not something partial or piecemeal: it takes in the whole life, the whole of history, the whole world. It tells us about creation and the final judgment and everything in between.

I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history.

If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.

You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.

Too often, however, we tend to read these accounts merely as biblical history without relating them to our lives and our situations. But

We cannot separate the history of a nation from the people of that nation.

God recorded in His Word specific instances of His sovereign rule over history in order that we might trust Him in the affairs of history as they unfold before us today.

And we should remember that God works in history from an eternal perspective, whereas we tend to view the outworking of history from a temporal perspective.

our innate tendency to think our country is always right. We assume that God will bless our side with victory. The Bible does not support such a view. In fact, according to biblical history, God sometimes uses an evil nation to punish another one, then in turn punishes the first nation for its sin.

My right and my privilege to stand here before you has been won—won in my lifetime—by the blood and the sweat of the innocent.