God's M.O., he reflected, is to transmute evil into good. If He is active here, He is doing that now, although our eyes can't perceive it; the process lies hidden beneath the surface of reality, and emerges only later. To, perhaps, our waiting heirs....
In spring, 1937, of course, families still rode the rails because of the Depression, which everyone said was already in the history books as the worst ever. The jobs still couldn’t be found, at least for most people. Everett itself—the smaller, p...
If you want to know what we are, look at the men reading books, searching in the dark pages of history for the lost word, the key to the mystery of the living peace. We are factory hands, field hands, mill hands, searching, building and molding struc...
Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another two hundred thousand titles to this stack each year. This means that at the current publishing rate, ten million new books will be added in the next fif...
Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment.
Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.
To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
Whenever a woman strengthens the faith of a child, she contributes to the strength of a family - now and in the future.
Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.
Is numerical equality (forced by the use of specific physical units) the same as conceptual equality? Of course NOT!
The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.
You are not your virginity. You are a human being. The state of your hymen has nothing to do with your worth.
Suicide isn't something people do to hurt other people. It's something people do to release themselves from pain.
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.
Julian recognized that the strength of the orthodox Church rested to a great extent on the imperial discrimination in its favour. According to Ammianus, he tried to atomize the Church by ending the system:
He [Augustine] admitted: 'I am the sort of man who writes because he has made progress, and who makes progress by writing.'
It is then he realises that certain things loom larger than forgiveness and reconciliation: memory, for one, and history, bloody history.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.
[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning;
I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.
