Quotes about History
History is a bath of blood.
- William James
The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
- Timothy Keller
We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.
- Carl Sagan
Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.
- Charles Spurgeon
History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.
- Calvin Coolidge
The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
- Samuel Johnson
God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.
- David Platt
That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn't believe this.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.
- George W. Bush
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.
- Marilyn Monroe
It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.
- Audre Lorde