When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
And well historically it's never been a good thing to compare yourself to biblical characters.
It is not history, theology or mythology that interest me. It is the fact that history, theology or mythology could have alternative interpretations or explanations. I try to connect the dots between the past and the present.
The historian is a prophet looking backward.
The Bible is a history book.
History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.
So often, we don't realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story.
While we read history we make history.
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.
History is a vision of God's creation on the move.