Quotes about History

There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. It is the key to the whole mission problem. All human means are secondary.

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.

Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.

It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.

If you are not open to the unprecedented, you will repeat history. If you are open to the unprecedented, you will change history. The difference is prayer.

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:England hath need of thee: she is a fenOf stagnant waters.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.