Top 1200 Religious History Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

We have history as a guide, and history suggests that this brand of comprehensive reform ... is a recipe for failure.

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

Christianity does not claim to convey merely religious truth, but truth about all reality. This vision of reality is radically different from a secularist vision that wants Christianity to scuttle into the corner of the hearth by the coal shovel, conveniently out of the way of anything but private religious concerns

Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.

The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The person who uncritically embraces any party line is guilty of an idolatrous surrender of her core identity as Abba's Child. Neither liberal fairy dust nor conservative hardball addresses our ragged human dignity.

If you are religious, you believe that your religion is the 'right' one—and, in many cases, all others will be sent to hell. Similarly, a nationalist believes his or her nation is better or more advanced—and a racist believes that an inherent difference between each race make his or her ethnicity superior. All of these ideologies spawn the hate, philosophical disagreements, and prejudices that have been the catalysts for various atrocious acts throughout history.

If you look at my history, my history is that of forming bands rather than joining them.

I don't care if religious people consider me amoral because I lack their beliefs in God. I do however care deeply about efforts to turn religious beliefs into law and those efforts benefit greatly from the conviction that individually and collectively we cannot be good without God.

The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements.

The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind.

What happened last week doesn't matter. That's history. You have to make history every day.

The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my views in light of new evidence, but someone of a religious faith will just stick their fingers in the ears and say: 'I'm not listening, there's nothing you can say that will make me change my mind.

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.

The word of God is definitely above culture, in terms of what or who should have authority in our lives. However, we must remember that we are within culture, and our calling in Christ is to play our part in the redemption and transformation of individuals and cultures. I believe the recent history of the religious subculture teaches all too clearly that unless we are moving forward in seeking the genuine transformation of culture, then we are standing still and it is transforming us.

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.

It's down to schools to educate children about their history, especially black history.

Barack Obama is the President of the United States, a politician in America, a very religious country, so I understand why he has to pretend to be a religious person himself. I say pretend because, I can only hope that someone as bright as he, wouldn't really believe that people can walk on water and ride a winged horse and rain frogs and you can change water into wine.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness

I was a young woman who had grown up in the mountains of Montana as a Protestant Methodist in a pretty good social gospel tradition. I became fascinated with the religious lives of others who seemed also to be very religious, yet in ways that were quite different from my own. That fascination led to relationships, in India and elsewhere, with families of Hindus, of Muslims, of Sikhs, and a lot of study.

The function of traditional history is to create a citizenry that looks to the top - the president, Congress, the Supreme Court - to make the important decisions. That's what traditional history is all about: the laws that were passed, the decisions made by the court. So much of history is built around "the great men." All of that is very anti-democratic.

Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim that ours is the era of individualism. Ours is merely a more poignant repetition of the phenomenon of all history: every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass. Today, as ever, the few are misunderstood, hounded, imprisoned, tortured, and killed.

Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental.

We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.

So the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can do to earn love, and even more startling, that there is also nothing one can do to unlearn it, or to keep oneself from being loved. This is a religious awakening that is utterly different from any other religious experience, no matter how profoundly spiritual it may seem.

United are special because of their history. They have so much history on a world level.

I think there is unnecessary conflict right now between the vehemently religious and the LGBT community. The extremes of religion I think and the LGBT community have an issue and because a lot of black families in America are more religious, I think that is where the conflict comes into play.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

I'm a history buff, so I've been reading lots of books on Irish and American history.

I'm trying to make history. I've always put history above money.

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

My mom was a history teacher when I was a kid, so I hated history out of rebellion.

A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

Real Madrid is like Manchester United or Liverpool or Bayern Munich. There is so much history, and you need to play and win against that history. It's difficult to play against them because you fight against everything - the history, the players - but because of that, the motivation is always so high.

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families. The Amor Patriae love of ones country is both a moral duty and a religious duty. It comprehends not only the love of our neighbors but of millions of our fellow creatures, not only of the present but of future generations. This virtue we find constitutes a part of the first characters of history.

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious and reflective person realizes, I think, that the religious element in his nature must be recognized and cultivated if all the powers of the human soul are to act together in perfect balance and harmony. And indeed it was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls

It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.

The Royal Rumble is rich with history and one of the most popular events in WWE history.

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves

As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the "human religious ideal" inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the "christian religious ideal".

When I was a kid, I loved history because history to me was a big story.

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

The 'religious spirit,' it's demonic, and it attempts to substitute a demonic power or a fleshly power for the power of the Holy Spirit. And the 'religious spirit' is more concerned with what we look like than what we really are.

. If you believe that your nation is divinely ordained to rule Europe, and you must struggle to establish its supremacy, is that a religious doctrine or a nationalist one? In Germany especially, the whole super-nationalist ideology of the post-1871 empire is heavily imbued with religious teaching, chiefly Lutheran, and frankly viewing the new empire as the germ of the kingdom of God on Earth.

I'm a huge history buff. It was no hardship to read history textbooks for homework.

Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, Thou shalt make no graven image.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.