Quotes about History
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
- Victor Hugo
Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?
- KP Yohannan
The greatest and most momentous fact which the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth.
- Charles Spurgeon
And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.
- Adrian Rogers
All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.
- Carl Jung
Grace can and does have a history.
- Karl Rahner
Whatever I am today is a product of that conviction that victory through Christ is victory indeed. The rest is history.
- TB Joshua
History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
- George Bernard Shaw
He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.
- Edmund Burke
In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.
- Carl Jung
In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel