Quotes About History

Note that his enemies become his footstool while he is seated at God's right hand (where he appears after his ascension: Acts 2:33–35; 5:31; 7:56; Rom 8:34; Eph 1:20; Col 3:1; Heb 1:3, 13; 8:1; 10:12; 12:2; 1 Pet 3:22) — not after leaving that place and returning to earth at his Second Coming. Again, his victory will occur in contemporary history as Christ presently rules from heaven.

Church history begins with his legal victory at the cross-resurrection-ascension, continues progressively as he subdues all of his other enemies, and ends finally at the eschatological resurrection, which conquers the final enemy, death.

Tavernier 1925: I:105; Hambly 1982: 438–42.

My heavy heart has gone this way before.

There are only 266 words in the Gettysburg Address. The shortest sentence in the New Testament may be the most moving: "Jesus wept.

Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.

The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.

In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.

A tragedy has taken place on our land, and even though it did not take place on our watch, we are its inheritors, and the earth remembers.

For more than two decades I have tried, honestly and respectfully, to walk the difficult line between the world of Native America and the world of those of us whose people came, willingly or otherwise, to these American shores. I have done this because I believe that we, as Americans, are poorly served by our willful avoidance of the true facts of our national experience, and also because I believe that the lives and ways of the Native American peoples have much to teach us all. It

History is but a tapestry of stories, imperfectly woven.

Following the Nez Perce Trail is

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.

We can say nothing but what hath been said.

There are singular moments in history, dates that divide all that goes before from all that comes after.

No generation can escape history.

People tell me there's a difference in the way people perceive my administration and me. Again, I'm--it may be hard to believe, but I'm on the sidelines. I'm not in the middle of all of that anymore. I hope it's [viewed] kindly.... but I don't know--we're not trying to shape [history]. We're not trying to write the memoir, [or] have the seminar to point out all the wonderful things we did. I mean, I think you'll find out what I did right and what I did wrong. I think history will get it right.

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.

Once a strategic afterthought, homeland defense has become an urgent duty. For most of our history, America felt safe behind two great oceans. But with the spread of technology, distance no longer means security.

I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened.

I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is -- my point is, there's a strong will for democracy.