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Jean-Henri Merle dAubigne Quotes

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

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.

Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigne
Christian, Jesus, Keys
Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1843). “History of the Great Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in Germany, Switzerland, Etc”, p.341

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.

Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigne
Rocks, Ideas, Water

A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God destines him, but he is never its creator.

Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigne
Greatness, Men, May

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