Life: August 16, 1794 - October 21, 1872
Birthday: August 16
Death: October 21
The introduction of the Christian religion into the world has produced an incalculable change in history. There had previously been only a history of nations--there is now a history of mankind; and the idea of an education of human nature as a whole.--an education the work of Jesus Christ Himself--is become like a compass for the historian, the key of history, and the hope of nations.
source: - Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1843). “History of the Great Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in Germany, Switzerland, Etc”, p.341
Topics: Christian, Jesus, Keys, Changes In History
Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains upon which they rest.
Topics: Rocks, Ideas, Water, Alps
A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God destines him, but he is never its creator.
Topics: Greatness, Men, May, Personification