Quotes About History

In the West, we have deliberately excluded religion from political life and regard faith as an essentially private activity. But this is a modern development, dating only to the eighteenth century, and would have been incomprehensible to both Jesus and Paul.

The more deeply he entered the gentile world, the more Paul's Christos parted company with the historical Jesus, which had never really interested him in the first place. Far more important to Paul was Jesus's death and resurrection, the cosmic events that had transformed history and changed the fate of all peoples, regardless of their beliefs or ethnicity.

the moral and spiritual imperatives of religion are important for humanity and should not be relegated unthinkingly to the scrap heap of history in the interests of an unfettered rationalism.

A man doesn't have to be alive to start the fires of revolution.

We see the world in terms of history, not money. That's the main difference between us and the rest of the world - we appreciate man's foibles, passions, and beliefs, while the rest of the world appreciates their coins.

An oft-told story is like a photograph in a family album; eventually, it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.

There are moments when history and memory seem like a mist, as if what really happened matters less than what should have happened.

The only way to make any sense of the United States Congress, our father told me once, is to view it as a two-hundred-year-long primate study.

in Chinese, the character for woman was a man on his knees

There are moments when history and memory seem like a mist, as if what really happened matters less than what should have happened. The mist lifts and suddenly there we are, my good parents and their good children, their grateful children who phone for no reason but to talk, say their good-nights with a kiss, and look forward to home on the holidays. I see how, in a family like mine, love doesn't have to be earned and it can't be lost.

Have you ever noticed," Rosalie asks, "that the coloreds are always singing of the coming glory and the Irish are always singing of the glory lost?

Kig-Yar didn't think like humans, though. They'd tried imperial culture once and decided it wasn't for them. Maybe they were right: humans were constantly in denial about their ape-sized social circles, always pretending they could think on a global scale when history proved every time that they really couldn't.

Broken: Never underestimate the power of a shared history.

You sowed enough wild oats before we were married to qualify for farm subsidies.

Trust me, sweetheart, there is a reason centuries of fathers have fought brutal wars to protect the concept

you cannot fight a man's history.

That's how it's been happening since Jesus lost his sandals.

Just about every gang in America had started as a group of minorities, be they Irish, Jewish, Italian, or other, banding together for survival. It generally took a couple of years before they started doing worse than was done to them.

That's how it's been happening since Jesus lost his sandals.

tutor in the computer lab. Claire was an art history major. She had never been good at math. Or at least she'd never tried to be, which was the same thing. She could vividly remember the first time she'd sat down with Paul and gone over one of her assignments.

Dementia was nothing if not a stroll through the many skeletons lining the family closet.

In Jesus Christ there is no isolation of man from God or of God from man. Rather, in Him we encounter the history, the dialogue, in which God and man meet together and are together, the reality of the covenant MUTUALLY contracted, preserved, and fulfilled by them. Jesus Christ is in His one Person, as true GOD, MAN'S loyal partner, and as true MAN, GOD'S. He is the Lord humbled for communion with man and likewise the Servant exalted to communion with God.

Concerning the Investigation of Super-History' (Urgeschichte) (pp. 20–8)

For 'historical' means 'subject to time' (p. 242).