Historians can "point out twistings and falsifications and other mistakes and shortcomings in this or that kind of historical representation...[because] the purpose of history is the reduction of untruth."
- John Lucaks, Historically Speaking III, 2002.
"How shall we labour with any effect to build up the Church, if we have no thorough knowledge of her history, or fail to apprehend it from the proper point of observation? History is, and must ever continue to be, next to God's word, the richest fountain of wisdom, and the surest guide to all successful practical activity."
-Philip Schaaf, What is Church History, 1846.
"The principle [of historical events] is God's sovereign providential control of history. God is history's unifying and directing force. God's gracious, redemptive plan in history gives it purpose and ultimate meaning. History's highest goal and ultimate outworking is the fulfillment of God's will to his glory."
-Clyde P. Greer, "Reflecting Honestly on History," 2003.
"Why are you here now? You may answer: 'because I wanted to come'; or you may say: 'because a railway-train carried me here'; or you may say: 'because it is the will of God'; and all these things may be true at the same time - true on different levels. So with history..."
- Herbert Butterfield
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