Quotes About History

The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontent(ment ) is - a questioning of the goodness of God.

A powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past.

Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up until the day God created the Red Sox.

Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!

God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.

I don't believe in God and all that. But I am Jewish, and very proud to be so, very proud of the culture.

Dinosaur fossils were placed in rocks by prankster God just to make human beings think the world is older than it is.

The fact that Abraham Lincoln ever, ever became President is either a freak accident of history... or destiny; God's providence to America.

I'm glad to know that we do have political leaders that believe in God, and that has been true from the days of George Washington.

The cavalries charged and the Indians died, oh the country was young with God on its side.

Jesus Christ, being 2000 years old and some change, is a relatively "new" god of the older god category - and has done quite well for himself, in terms of worship.

The bible is not a religious experience for me. This book bundles together the entire culture of Judaism: our language, our history, our geography. God is merely a byproduct of the bible.

Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

History is the revelation of Providence.

All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!

From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties.

Either God must be unjust, or you, Jews, wicked and ungodly. You have been, about fifteen hundred years, a race rejected of God.

I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.

Virtually all of the civil laws in all of the world's societies are based on what humanity, in the earliest days, believed to be God's Law.

George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.

The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they're going to do and guarantees them victory; that's why they're fanatic.

Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal' or they will unmake our world.

Then why can't I bully you into procreating? (Wulf) See! I'm the only human in history to have Viking yenta of his very own. God, how I wish my father had been a fertile man. (Chris)