History Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

“History does not record anywhere a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up…

— Robert Heinlein

History is a sacred kind of writing, because truth is essential to it, and where truth is, there God himself is, so far as…

— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

“The history of religion is the history of appalling violence, slaughter and sexual abuses, rationalised by the fairy tales of religious delusions.”

— Peter B. Lockhart

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“One of the most important things I have found is that no one school of thought has all of the answers. Sometimes history plugs…

— Lewis N. Roe

“When you find that a theology has nothing more to offer than what the world already offers, then that theology as a theology is…

— Criss Jami

Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests…

— Noah Porter

“This cannot be stated too strongly: From the very beginning, Christianity tied itself to history. The most important claims of Christianity are historical claims,…

— Kevin DeYoung

“theology is not the study of ideas about God; it is the study of the living God.”

— Michael F. Bird

“the moral and spiritual imperatives of religion are important for humanity and should not be relegated unthinkingly to the scrap heap of history in…

— Karen Armstrong

“Theology is a discipline that is at once oriented to the transcendent and thoroughly located in a particular time and place. It arises out…

— Christine Helmer

There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith…

— Boyd K. Packer