The European Reformations Quotes

“Human life without knowledge of history is nothing other than a perpetual childhood, nay, a permanent obscurity and darkness. -Philip Melanchthon”
― Carter Lindberg, The European Reformations

“If memory is the thread of personal identity, history is the thread of community identity.”
― Carter Lindberg, The European Reformations

“We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were from death to renewed life." -Peter of Blois (d. 1212).”
― Carter Lindberg, The European Reformations

“Lord Acton stated this elegantly: “History must be our deliverer not only from the undue influence of other times, but from the undue influence of our own, from the tyranny of environment and the pressure of the air we breathe. It requires”
― Carter Lindberg, The European Reformations