Quotes About History

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.

The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.

If prayers worked, Hitler would have been stopped at the border of Poland by angels with swords of fire.

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

The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book.

The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in 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.

For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth.

Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then

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.

Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies.

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.

Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there was not an emotional relationship.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

A love relationship has always been shaped by the context and times we live in.

Those who remember only that the Roosevelts served hot dogs to the royals will be fascinated by this well-researched account of an historic and ennobling relationship - a great story!

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

A lover's quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime – to set an example – and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as leader, and the greatness of his ultimate achievement - all argue his fundamental integrity. To suppose Muhammad an impostor raises more problems than it solves. Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

The sword of Mohammad, and the Kor'än, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and Truth which the world has yet known.

Seaford goes so far as to suggest that the money economy influenced Platonic and Aristotelian notions of the individual.