William Mackergo Taylor: Quotes about history

William Mackergo Taylor was American theologian. Explore interesting quotes on history.
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“The great moral lesson which Saul's history leaves for the instruction of mankind is this: That without true piety the finest qualities of character and the highest position in society will utterly fail to make a true and noble man. If Saul's heart had been true to God, he would have been one of the grandest specimens of humanity; but, lacking this true obedience to God, he made his life an utter failure, and his character amoral wreck.”

William Mackergo Taylor

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 453.

Life , God , History , Failure

“The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.”

William Mackergo Taylor

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 427.

History

“Palestine was the West Point and Annapolis for the world. In that little country God was training up a people out of whom, when the fullness of the time should come, His gospel cadets should emerge, fitted by all the training of all their national history for going out among the heathen and proclaiming the unsearchable riches of Christ.”

William Mackergo Taylor

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 417.

God , People , World , History