Top 1200 Religious History Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.

When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history. If you weren't self-reliant on the prairie, you wouldn't survive.

Whenever one pulls the trigger in order to rectify history's mistake, one lies. For history makes no mistakes, since it has no purpose.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

My favorite thing is talking to people about history - that's what I like doing. The sort of history I do isn't just for professional historians.

Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.

Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Williams Jennings Bryan, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King - indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history - were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. To say that men and women should not inject their "personal morality" into public policy debates is a practical absurdity.

The history of mankind is the history of money losing value.

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.

The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.

No one can write their real religious life with pen or pencil. It is written only in actions, and its seal is our character, not our orthodoxy. Whether we, our neighbor, or God is the judge, absolutely the only value of our religious life to ourselves or to anyone is what it fits us for and enables us to do.

I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds.

Religion and race belong together. German man can only assimilate religious faith and religious thought with a German mind and in a German way. We must not think we can come to God except through our Volk....Wherever our blood rises in protest we act immorally, even though others may try to prove it to be moral.

I knew nothing of American History because I didn't pay attention to American History in school. Because I did not see myself in American History in school.

[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history as lived.

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

[Read] anything but history,.. for history must be false.

That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that the true history inverts the official one.

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

History takes time. History makes memory.

I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

I want to put my name in history. I love history.

I don't like the idea of nationalism, but on the other hand, I do see that there is a difference between British art, German art and Chinese art. This is because of the history, because each country has different history and each country reads and teaches that history differently.

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.

We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

America didn't create religious liberty. Religious liberty created America.

History is so deep, especially black history, so I have a lot to learn.

I think one of the greatest losses to humanity was the domination of women. I think every religious system has found ways to be kind to them in a kind of subordinate way. Very patronizing, very colonial. But if you start looking at the fabric of society, even religious systems, they would fall apart if it wasn't for the embedded ability of the women who are involved.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

I don't have much history - I've got Rosie Perez, Jennifer Lopez, Rita Moreno. That's it. That's the history of Latin women in Hollywood, really.

Money, titles, belts - you're not going to take with you when you die. History stays forever. That's why I decided to go for history.

What's so interesting is taking kind of all these horror tropes and really finding black history and American history to layer on top of it.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

The most important history is the history we make today.

Where it is the majority religion, Islam does not recognize religious freedom, at least not as we understand it. Islam is a different culture. This doesn't mean that it's an inferior culture, but it is a culture that has yet to connect with the positive sides of our modern Western culture: religious freedom, human rights and equal rights for women.

Qatar does not have much history, it's a new emirate. So I couldn't draw on the history of the country; its history is really just being a desert. But I thought, the one thing I must learn about for this project is the Islamic faith. So I read about Islam and Islamic architecture, and the more I studied the more I realized where the best Islamic buildings were.

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.

Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to; art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the paucity of its evidence—is really too great a monstrosity to be appreciated in all its glory. Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity—a vanishing point beyond which rational discourse proves impossible.

I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

Through the years, Madam Walker has certainly become a staple of anything that has to do with black history, women's history and entrepreneurship.

We must create a history of India in living terms. Up to the present that history, as written by the English, practically begins with Warren Hastings, and crams in certain unavoidable preliminaries, which cover a few thousands of years...The history of India has yet to be written for the first time. It has to be humanized, emotionalized, made the trumpet-voice and evangel of the race that inhabit India.

Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.

Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.