Great Throughts Treasury

"God lives and is observable in the whole of history. Every deed bears witness of him, every moment proclaims his name but especially do we find it in the connecting line that runs through history."

"History [is] the record of divine manifestations imperfectly understood."

"You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was."

"Every generation is equidistant from God. "

"He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it."