History Quote by Peter Enns Download Open image ““Christ is the ultimate example of how God enters the messiness of history to save his people.”” — Peter Enns ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“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 Copy Share Image
“Hard as it may sound, no god has saved anything or anyone in human history. It is the humans who have done so.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than what has taken place in your past.” — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
“Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than whatever has taken place in your past.” — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“So we must continue to ransom the time, to restore all things in Christ.” — Scott Hahn Copy Share Image
“Jesus changes our history from a random series of sad incidents and accidents into a constant opportunity for a change of heart.” — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“From the garden, to Abraham and his descendants, to Israel, to the church, to the New Jerusalem, God has always worked to save a… — Michael Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Christ is my model of leadership because he faced similar challenges we also face on earth today, but through it all He was victorious.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“I find it strangely comforting that walking the path of Christian faith means being confronted moment by moment with what is counterintuitive and ultimately… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
“No attempt should be made to "reconcile" Yahweh's hardening of Pharaoh's heart (plagues 6,8,9,10) with statements in the other plagues that Pharaoh hardened his… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
“The Bible isn’t a cookbook—deviate from the recipe and the soufflé falls flat. It’s not an owner’s manual—with detailed and complicated step-by-step instructions for… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
“Ours is a historical faith, and to uproot the Bible from its historical contexts is self-contradictory.” — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
“Doubt is God’s instrument, will arrive in God’s time, and will come from unexpected places—places out of your control. And when it does, resist… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
“I’VE BEEN ON A JOURNEY of rediscovering the Bible and the God behind it for over thirty years and I don’t see that journey… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
“[The Lord's Supper teaches that] Rituals are good, and they are instituted and used by God to 'connect' his people with him. We learn… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
“Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something it’s not meant to be, isn’t a pious… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
“The bottom line is that for Wellhausen and many other biblical scholars before and since, the Pentateuch as we know it (an important qualification)… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
“judging by how the Bible actually behaves—God did not design scripture to be a hushed afternoon in an oak-paneled library. Instead, God has invited… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
If you are expecting Paul to read the Bible like it was set in stone, you will find yourself getting pretty nervous. For Paul,… — Peter Enns Copy Share Image
“This is extremely significant. Knowing something of when the Pentateuch came to be, even generally, affects our understanding of why it was produced in… — Peter Enns 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