What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.

The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context

Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.

Change is certain. Progress is not.

Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian also asks the question: Whither?

It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.

Good historians...have the future in their bones

The greatest treasures are invisible by the eye but found by the HEART. For where your treasure is, there your heart would also BE

If you can't change your mind, you can't change anything.

When we preach or teach the Scriptures, we open the door for the Holy Spirit to do His work. God has not promised to bless oratory or clever preaching. He has promised to bless His Word.

If you think that there's anything that you need to do for salvation, then you've missed the point of the Gospel. Eternal life is a gift from God!

She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of her life so strong that sometimes she is frightened of herself.

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.

One [New York] eatery is a remodeled diner that looks like what Busby Berkeley would have done if only he hadn't had the money.

God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth

The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit.

Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.