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Quotes About History

Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.
~ Peter Kreeft
By the grace of God, we won the Cold War.
~ George H. W. Bush
I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
~ Julia Ward Howe
The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe.
~ Kenneth Scott Latourette
The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs.
~ Jerome Cady
My God! My God! What will the country say?
~ Abraham Lincoln
God has never deserted our people. Through the ages Jews have had to suffer, but through the ages they've gone on living, and the centuries of suffering have only made them stronger.
~ Anne Frank
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.
~ Herbert Butterfield
God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages.
~ Jerry Falwell
Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.
~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!
~ Mason Cooley
Your requests change history because your prayers change God!
~ Max Lucado
God has a timeline. And because of Bethlehem, we have an idea where we stand on it.
~ Max Lucado
We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
[History is] the very servant of the servants of God, the drudge of all the drudges.
~ Herbert Butterfield
This notion of public-school doors being barred to God would have confounded not only the founding fathers but also those who attended American public schools as recently as the early 1960s.
~ William Murchison
God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family.
~ Margaret Clarkson
God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
~ Pliny the Elder
The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity.
~ Richard Carlile
Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour.
~ Robin Lane Fox
For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.
~ Edward Everett Hale