Top 1200 Religious History Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

At the University of California at Berkeley, my interests broadened from military history to diplomatic history and other disciplines.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.

Daddy loved our country, he loved our history. He was always talking about American history and telling us stories from American history, and loved our most treasured values of freedom, democracy, justice.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

In Afghanistan, we have had a history of very strong women, and we need to reclaim that history and talk about it.

I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all.

I do belong to the club which doesn't see a distinction between academic history and popular history.

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

Because the bill in reserving a certain parcel of land in the United States for the use of said Baptist Church comprises a principle and a precedent for the appropriation of funds of the United States for the use and support of religious societies, contrary to the article of the Constitution which declares that "Congress shall make no law respecting a religious establishment."

The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.

Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.

Remember the lessons of history - if we don't learn from history, we're bound to repeat it.

Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.

It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of religious self-righteousness this article deplores is precisely the spirit in which it is written. Of course he's right about many things, one of them being the destructive potency of religious self-righteousness. (p. 146)

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

It's always good to be somewhere with some history, maybe that's England, which has a long history.

History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.

History will record that the Citizens United decision is one of the worst in the history of our country.

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

Black history is part of American history, and it should be treated as such.

[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.

The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

I've always been fascinated with the history of the Plains Indians and the history of the American Indian Movement in the '70s.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

Sometimes I feel that in religious content, religious drama, it's almost told like a tale, like an account of facts, and in 'A.D. The Bible Continues,' it's drama, it's real drama that we like to see on TV today, seeing the characters struggle and doubt and be completely in conflict with each other, kind of like 'House of Cards.'

I can probably go down in history as the best backup point guard ever in NBA history.

The history of Oregon is partially the history of a state that legislated not wanting black people around.

I love things that have one foot in history - I was going to be a history professor before I sold out and went into TV.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.

God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family.

You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself.

I'm not against knowing the history of white people in the U.S. - that's not the point. The point is that there's so much greater history. We don't know about Native Americans. Very basically, we don't know that much about African American history, except that they were enslaved. You only get bits and pieces.

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery...

You ought not to accept the claim that this is a religious practice. I think that's, frankly, problematic for Islam, for well-intentioned Liberals like you to say that this is a religious practice when the overwhelming consensus of Islamic scholars around the world, and the overwhelming majority of Canadian Muslims, believe this has absolutely - that the niqab as face covering, that this symbol of misogyny has nothing to do with Islam.

Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.