Pastoral Resources

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.

Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.

That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.

I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.