Fundamentalists Quote by Mary R. Habeck

“Because they have learned not to get caught in notions or representations, they do not speak as though they alone hold the truth, and…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.

— Kenneth M. Stampp

“Religion is concerned not with genuine history, but with sacred history, which does not course through time like a river. Rather, sacred history is…

— Reza Aslan

“if the belief or practice is ancient, foreign, and preferably Eastern, it has immediate authority and wisdom.”

— Karen Stollznow

“I am writing this as a profession of faith: I believe in a divine providence; I also believe in God's wisdom and goodness; I…

— Albert Speer

“However superficially appealing, the idea that a religious tradition could be saved from crisis because a group of intellectuals radically reinterpreted its sacred texts…

— Ross Douthat

“...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.”

— Brian Friel

“The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and past humanity…

— Frank Kermode

“Historical accuracy often fell victim when it came to matters of political or religious convenience.”

— H. L. Tinsley

“It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever possible. And then use them against each other.”

— Geoff Ryman

“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

“Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?”

— Thomas Mann