History Quote by N. T. Wright Download Open image “All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting.” — N. T. Wright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Human beings Humans Selection
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.” — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives. — John G. D. Clark Copy Share Image
We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist.… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
“...history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
Everybody should be able to choose according to his own values and history, within a European civilization that we all belong to. — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
To a person growing up in the power of demography, it was clear that history had to do not with the powerful actions of… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Rest you well, beloved Jesus, Caesar’s Lord and Israel’s King, In the brooding of the Spirit, in the darkness of the spring — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
It is faith that looks up at the creator God and knows him to be the God of love. And it is faith that… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Justice never means "treating everybody the same way", but "treating people appropriately". — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The word "salvation" denotes rescue. Rescue? What from? Well, of course, ultimately death. And since it is sin that colludes with the forces of… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
We cannot worship the suffering God today and ignore him tomorrow. We cannot eat and drink the body and blood of the passionate and… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
If you ask people in England where does Tom Wright sit on the theological spectrum, they say, "Well he's an evangelical of course," as… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
