Quote by N.T. Wright

“C.S. Lewis is famous for many things, among them coining the phrase "chronological snobbery." The phrase refers to the all-too-common tendency among Christians to…

— Kevin DeYoung

“A new generation forgets the specters that may have tormented the old… And yet, always, to all eternity, it is the same specter assailing…

— Halldór Laxness

“[C. S. Lewis] showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by…

— John Piper

“The ages live in history through their anachronisms.”

— Oscar Wilde

It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between the community…

— Lauren Groff

“It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their…

— Bram Stoker

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

— George Saintsbury

There is one fault that I must find With the twentieth century. And I'll put it in a couple of words; Too adventury. What…

— Ogden Nash

“and here is where unsentimental history and statistical literacy can change our view of modernity, for they show that nostalgia for a peaceable past…

— Steven Pinker

The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.

— Robert Darnton

“Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from our human…

— Julian Barnes

“How many like her were out there? People to whom the twenty-first century was a foreign landscape. No bright tomorrows for this lot, they…

— Alan James Roll