History Quote by Lynn Picknett

“It is essential to realize that the Christian community in the past was not a pious ideal, but a juridical fact which underlay the…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

“A legacy is not what is recorded in history books or repeated in song, but what is woven into the souls of those who…

— Adrian G. Hilder

“There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical Christianity's dialogue with modernity. The Christian intellect has…

— Anonymous

“Through the life and death of Jesus Christ, history becomes not the transient bearer of eternal values but, for the first time, thoroughly temporal.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“One of them, the wide clear current of Christianity, has provided the smooth underlying stream of history for nineteen hundred years, and nations and…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

“For the normative self-understanding of modernity, Christianity has functioned as more than just a precursor or catalyst. Universalistic egalitarianism, from which sprang the ideals…

— Jürgen Habermas

“The truth that there is an infinite, eternal, and personal mind behind the realities of the universe that can be detected through human reflection…

— Kenneth Samples

“Which is probably one of the reasons those of us who love contemporary fiction love it as we do. We’re alone with it. It…

— Michael Cunningham

“Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of ancient mythologists, accomodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and yet it remains to…

— Thomas Paine

Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin…

— Anonymous

“Many of today's most obstreperous critics of Christianity know nothing more of Christendom's two millennia than a few childish images of bloodthirsty crusaders and…

— David Bentley Hart