Top 1200 Religious History Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

We can't let extremists on any side hijack or rewrite history because those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.

Black history is a series of missing chapters from British history. I'm trying to put those bits back in.

Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.

Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.

I was very interested in history, but I also thought, you know, history is not that interesting sometimes, and it can feel a bit medicinal.

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

I've known a lot of very religious people. My mother is very religious, but she was also very - is very private about it. She - when I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. So I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue.

If you must believe in anything, believe in yourselves, in your senses, in your minds. To accept a religious creed is to accept another mind in place of your own and generally contrary to your own. When religious belief comes in brains go out

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.

Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.

If all the evidence put forward for the authenticity of religious teachings originates in the past, it is natural to look round and see whether the present, about which it is easier to form judgements, may not also be able to furnish evidence of the sort. If by this means we could succeed in clearing even a single portion of the religious system from doubt, the whole of it would gain enormously in credibility.

Jesus proclaimed, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. .. He is saying that a whole new order is about to enter history, and if you want to be a part of it, you will need a change so fundamental that the Gospel of John would later refer to it as a "new birth". Being born again was not meant to be a private religious experience that is hard to communicate. .. but rather the prerequisite for joining a new and very public movement - the Jesus and kingdom of God movement.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

I think history has less of an impact on current times than the stories that we tell ourselves about that history [do].

I think that spirituality is important for all people to develop. I don't mean there necessarily has to be a religious aspect to spirituality. Some people are spiritual in a religious way, other people are spiritual in their work and in their art and in their treatment of other people.

Susannah Heschel's The Aryan Jesus is a brilliant and erudite investigation of the convergence between major trends in German Protestantism and Nazi racial anti-Semitism. By concentrating on the history of the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life, Heschel describes in forceful detail the Nazification of all aspects of Protestant theology, including the Aryanization of Jesus himself. This is a highly original and important contribution to our understanding of the Third Reich.

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the lathe of the past.

The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.

I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history

Drag racing has played a big role in In-N-Out's history, and it is also an important part of my family history.

Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.

History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. It is the key to the whole mission problem. All human means are secondary.

Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan.

Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology thus includes natural history, and much else besides.

History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

History happens as soon as I pick up my coffee cup - it happened 30 seconds ago. It's history.

The United States didn't create religious liberty. Religious liberty created the United States of America. It's the reason we are here today. This is an essential freedom and an essential right and I don't think you give up this right by simply taking a job.

American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.

It is difficult to generalize about Islam. To begin with, the word itself is commonly used with two related but distinct meanings, as the equivalents both of Christianity, and Christendom. In the one sense, it denotes a religion, as system of beliefs and worship; in the other, the civilization that grew up and flourished under the aegis of that religion. The word Islam thus denotes more than fourteen centuries of history, a billion and a third people, and a religious and cultural tradition of enormous diversity.

Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history.

The underlying foundation of all religion is performance - whether it's a tribal dance around a campfire to satisfy the fire god, or a dead religious activity performed week after week by an evangelical Christian with the intent of impressing his God. It's all religious performance, and God isn't impressed by our performance. What impresses Him is faith.

Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.

One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.

To learn the history of the banjo is to recover the actual history of America.

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

Who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can with other varieties of melancholy, happiness, and trance, than by refusing to consider their place in any more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether?

Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually, much of human history is up for grabs. The further back you go, the more that the history that's taught in the schools and universities begins to look like some kind of faerie story.

If you are posing as religious and are not living the life as stressed by God, you should wake up. It is wrong to be insincere. The best time to begin a religious life is when you are youthful and well. If you have a short time to live, you must work harder at it. And if you have along time to live, you should not waste that precious opportunity.

She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

Right now, culturally, we're seeing a really interesting evolution in ideas about spirituality and the world, right? The number of people who consider themselves to be religious and going to services is dropping, and the number of people who consider themselves to be spiritual but not religious is increasing.

History is our guide, and without a knowledge of history, we are lost!

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

This whole process of education is to be religious, and not only religious, but Christian. And as Christianity is the only true religion, and God in Christ the only true God, the only possible means of profitable education is the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit.

You have to be closer to religious origins -- the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew its theology and its varieties of religious experience. We are post-secular, inventing new faiths, without any sense of organizing truths. The truths we accept are so multiple that honesty becomes little more than a strategy by which you manage your tendencies toward duplicity.