INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
"You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all the religion of Jesus Christ." (President George Washington to the Delaware Indian Chiefs on Aug 12, 1779) "It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God,. to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits , and humbly to implore his protection and favor… beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed" (President George Washington, Thanks giving Proclamation, October 3, 1789) "Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits... or the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed... and in general for all the great and various favors which He hath been pleased to confer upon us." (President George Washington, Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1789) "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.” — George Washington "Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God....we may...unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations... and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions, to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our...duties properly...to render our national government a blessing to all the People, by constantly being a government of wise, just and constitutional laws... and to bless them with...peace and concord...and the increase of science... and...to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best." — President George Washington (Oct. 3, 1787) The First Proclamation of a National Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer to Almighty God. "While I reiterate the professions of my dependence upon Heaven... I will observe that... no man who is profligate in his morals... can "We have...abundant reasons to thank Providence for its many favorable interpositions in our behalf. It has at times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us." — General George Washington, 1781 "Almighty God; We make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protection; that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government; and entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow citizens of the United States at large. "The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism...It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn." — George Washington “As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is, to use it as sparingly as possible . . . “The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.” — excerpts from George Washington’s Farewell Address “The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good.” (Washington, Writings (1932), Vol. XI, pp. 342-343, General Orders of May 2, 1778) George Washington, March 11, 1792, from Philadelphia in a letter to John Armstrong: “I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them . . . "It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor." (Washington, Writings (1838), Vol. XII, pp. 119-120, October 3, 1789) “Providence, to whom we are infinitely more indebted than we are to our own wisdom, or our own exertions, has always displayed its power and goodness, when clouds and thick darkness seemed ready to overwhelm us. The hour is now come when we stand much in need of another manifestation of its bounty however little we deserve it . . .” (Letter to Lund Washington, Morris-Town, May 19, 1780)
First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen, he was second to none in the humble and endearing scenes of private life. Pious, just, humane, temperate and sincere—uniform, dignified and commanding—his example was as edifying to all around him as were the effects of that example lasting. . . . Correct throughout, vice shuddered in his presence and virtue always felt his fostering hand. The purity of his private character gave effulgence to his public virtues. . . . Such was the man for whom our nation mourns. From: http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/project/exhibit/mourning/response.html President Calvin Coolidge summed up Washington’s contribution to mankind, under the Providence of God, in a speech to Congress:
(Osborn, p. iv. A facsimile of the peroration of President Coolidge’s Address to the Sixty-ninth Congress, Second Session, on Washington’s Birthday, February 22, 1927. )—From Stephen McDowell, http://nordskogpublishing.com/publisherscorner/2009/02/george-washington-instrument-in-hands.html. “As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is, to use it as sparingly as possible . . . “The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.” (excerpts from George Washington’s Farewell Address) On May 2, 1778, General George Washington issued these orders to his troops at Valley Forge: “While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.” "If freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." |
"Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way." —Ronald Reagan "The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people from religion; that amendment was written to protect religion from government tyranny. . . But now we're told our children have no right to pray in school. Nonsense. The pendulum has swung too far toward intolerance against genuine religious freedom. It is time to redress the balance." "We can't have it both ways. We can't expect God to protect us in a crisis and just leave Him over there on the shelf in our day-to-day living. I wonder if sometimes He isn't waiting for us to wake up, He isn't maybe running out of patience." "America needs God more than God needs America. If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." "There is a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts." "Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it." —Ronald Reagan 'Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.' —Ronald Reagan 'The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' —Ronald Reagan 'The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.' —Ronald Reagan 'Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. Was too strong.' —Ronald Reagan 'I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.' —Ronald Reagan 'The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.' 'Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.' 'The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.' —Ronald Reagan 'It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.' 'Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it' —Ronald Reagan 'Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.' 'No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.' 'If we ever forget that we're one nation under GOD, then we will be a nation gone under.' —Ronald Reagan "We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government." |
 “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” — President John Adams, The Works of John Adams, Vol. 9 (Liberty Fund: The Online Library of Liberty)"I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is worth more than all the means...” —John Adams "What do we mean by the American Revolution? The war? That was no part of the Revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The Revolution was in the minds of the people....a change in their religious sentiments." —John Adams |
"A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?" — Abigail Adams (Mrs. John Adams) "Can he be a patriot who, by an openly vicious conduct, is undermining the very bonds of Society, corrupting the Morals of Youth, and by his bad example injuring the very Country he professes to patronize more than he can possibly compensate by intrepidity, generosity and honour?" — Abigail Adams (Mrs. John Adams) "Scriptures tell us 'righteousness exalteth a Nation.'" — Abigail Adams (Mrs. John Adams) |
"Work as if you were to live 100 years; pray as if you were to die tomorrow." — Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, May 1757 "People willing to trade freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.” - Ben Franklin "Of civil offices, or employments [civil servants], there are few; no superfluous ones, as in Europe; and it is a rule established in some of the states, that no office should be so profitable as to make it desirable. The 36th Article of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, runs expressly in these words; ‘As every freeman, to preserve his independence, … ought to have some profession, calling, trade, or farm, whereby he may honestly subsist, there can be not necessity for, nor use in, establishing offices of profit; the usual effect of which are dependence and servility…faction, contention, corruption, and disorder among the people. Wherefore, whenever an office, through increase of fees or otherwise, becomes so profitable, as to occasion many to apply for it, the profits ought to be lessened by the legislature." — Ben Franklin |
| “Religion, or the Duty which we owe our Creator, and the Manner of discharging it, can be directed only by Reason and Convictions, not by Force or Violence; and Therefore all Men are equally entitled to the free exercise of Religion, according to the Dictates of Conscience; and that it is the mutual Duty of all to practice Christian Forbearance, Love, and Charity towards each other.” - Virginia Bill of Rights |
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined." —Patrick Henry (speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 5 June 1778) |
"In regard to the Great Book, I have only to say that it is the best Book that God has given to man" —Abraham Lincoln "It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God; to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord. |
"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." —John Quincy Adams “Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?” —John Quincy Adams, 1837 |
 "We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to The Ten Commandments of God." —James Madison |
"It is my fervent prayer to that Almighty Being before whom I now stand, and who has kept us in His hands from the infancy of our Republic to the present day...that He will...inspire the hearts of my fellow-citizens that we may be preserved from danger." |
"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”— Theodore Roosevelt THEODORE ROOSEVELT, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1904, FOURTH ANNUAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS: "No Christian and civilized community can afford to show a happy-go-lucky lack of concern for the youth of today; for, if so, the community will have to pay a terrible penalty of financial burden and social degradation in the tomorrow." |
 "When you have read the Bible, you know it is the word of God, because it is the key to your heart, your own happiness and your own duty." — Woodrow Wilson |
 “There is no national security but in the nation’s humble, acknowledged dependence upon God.” — President Franklin Pierce (1853) |
 “Cultivate peace... With all nations.... In a spirit of Christian benevolence.” — President James Buchanan (1857) |
 “America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.” — President Calvin Coolidge (1925)"Settlers came here from mixed motives...Generally defined, they were seeking a broader freedom. They were intent upon establishing a Christian commonwealth in accordance to the principle of self-government... It has been said that God sifted the nations that He might send choice grain into the wilderness." ".... They had a genius for organized society on the foundations of piety, righteousness, liberty, and obedience of the law... Who can fail to see in it the hand of destiny? Who can doubt that it has been guided by a Divine Providence?" - President Calvin Coolidge (May 31, 1923 Memorial Day) “No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. — President Calvin Coolidge |
"God’s might to direct me, God’s power to protect me." — St. Patrick |
"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." — Thomas Jefferson (These words inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.) "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free -- in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." "Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. — Thomas Jefferson My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. — Thomas Jefferson No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. — Thomas Jefferson The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. — Thomas Jefferson To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.'" — Thomas Jefferson "I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." "The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as to everything respecting foreign nations.... Our general government may be reduced to a very simple organization and a very inexpensive one, a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants." —Thomas Jefferson, August 13, 1800 letter "In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." —Thomas Jefferson "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks...will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. —Thomas Jefferson |
 "If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian." — Booker T. Washington in "Up From Slavery", 1907. |
 "The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority." — Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. |
"All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible." "In some countries the common people are not permitted to read the Bible at all. In ours, it is as common as a newspaper and in schools is read with nearly the same degree of respect." "Let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for yourselves rulers, “just men who rule in the fear of God.” The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty; if the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good, so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded. If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws." "In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate — look to his character as a man of known principle, of tried integrity, and undoubted ability for the office. "It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications for political stations. But the Scriptures teach a different doctrine. They direct that rulers should be men who rule in the fear of God, able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness. But if we had no divine instruction on the subject, our own interest would demand of us a strict observance of the principle of these injunctions. . . ." |
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." - Alexis de Tocqueville (in Democracy in America) |
 William Shakespeare died the same day the Pilgrims landed in America at Plymouth Rock, April 23, 1616. Four years earlier he wrote in his Will: "I commend my soul into the hands of God, my Creator, hoping and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ, my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting." |
 "But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has always been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?" — Charles Darwin, personal letter to W. Graham, July 3, 1881 (Francis Darwin, ed., The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin. New York: Basic, 1959, 1:285) "Civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate the savage races throughout the world. . . The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla." — Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871) |
 "The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our prevalent notions of the character of God, the great moral governor of the universe. On its doctrines are founded the peculiarities of our free institutions." —William McGuffey, author of the McGuffey Reader. |
 "If we want to keep these freedoms, we may have to fight again. God forbid, but if we do, let's always fight to win...Face the flag, son... and thank God it's still there." —John Wayne, 1977 |
"God of our Fathers...may it be ever understood that our Liberty is under God and... to the extent that America honors Thee, wilt Thou bless America." —Peter Marshall, U.S. Senate Chaplain 1947 "May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right."—Peter Marshall, jr |
 “The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.” —Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson |
 “Let us cherish these sentiments, and extend this influence still more widely; in the full conviction, that that is the happiest society which partakes in the highest degree of the mild and peaceful spirit of Christianity.” —Daniel Webster, regarding the Pilgrims, 1820 |
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"Human law must rest its authority, ultimately, upon the authority of that law, which is divine." —James Wilson (Lectures on Law, 1789-91) |
 "Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."—Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
"Last and not least, they cherished a great hope and inward zeal of laying good foundations...for the propagation and advance of the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in the remote parts of the world." (1621) |
"A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction." — Fisher Ames (1805) "We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more textbooks into our schools...containing fables and moral lessons... We are spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools. The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other man made book." — Fisher Ames (1789) |
 "The American population is entirely Christian, and with us Christianity and Religion are identified. It would be strange indeed,
if with such a people, our institutions did not presuppose Christianity and did not often refer to it and exhibit relations with it." — Chief Justice John Marshall (1833) |
 "The religion I have is to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can, do as little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest."— Daniel Boone (1816) |
 "All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others."— George Mason (his suggested wording while deliberating re: the Bill of Rights, for the First Amendment, which was revised) "[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, - who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia." — George Mason, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 14 June 1778 |
 "Lastly, whereas you are become a body politic, using amongst yourselves civil government, and are not furnished with any persons of special eminence above the rest, to be chosen by you into office of government, let your wisdom and godliness appear, not only in choosing such persons as do entirely love and will promote the common good, but also in yielding unto them all due honor and obedience in their lawful administrations; not beholding in them the ordinariness of their persons, but God's ordinance for your good, not being like the foolish multitude who more honor the gay coat, than either the virtuous mind of the man, or glorious ordinance of the Lord. But you know better things, and that the image of the Lord's power and authority which the magistrate beareth, is honourable, in how mean persons soever. And this duty you both may the more willingly and ought the more conscionably to perform..."— William Bradford, History of Plymouth Plantation |
 "Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond, and blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary to maintain the kingdom of Christ." — John Calvin |
"It is true that you cannot legislate evil out of the world, but by an impartial, rigorous justice you can make it too costly to practice... and by wise and Christian legislation you may limit its reach and remove its temptations and for this, in its most perfect measure, and to our utmost ability, the God of righteousness holds every man responsible. "What our country needs in its leaders and legislators are the purest Christian principles, the loftiest personal character, the highest and most unselfish political aims; that they may be men who no gold can buy, no adulation of the people can mislead, and no spirit of ambition can pervert." — Rev. S.W. Foljambe, 1876 |
 "I am much afraid that schools will prove to be the great gates of hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth." — Martin Luther (he posted his 95 thesis on the Wittenberg Church door, 10/31/1517 to begin the Christian Protestant Reformation)“I’d rather see heaven crash from the skies than one grain of God’s truth die.” - Martin Luther |
 "If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering. But if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity." — Daniel Webster |
 "Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time." They therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure and which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments." — Charles Carroll (Founding Father - U.S. Senator) |
 "A man with God is always in the majority." — John Knox (1572) |
"Christianity... is a religion you could not have guessed... It is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have." — C.S. Lewis |
 "Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence."— J.S. Bach |
 "When peace, like a river, attendeth my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll; Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say, It is well, it is well, with my soul." — Horatio Spafford (after losing 4 daughters in shipwreck, 1873) |
 “God calls us not to be successful but to be faithful.”— Mother Teresa |
"It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." —Samuel Adams "Let each citizen remember that at the time he is offering his vote that he is ... offering one of the most solemn trusts in society for which he is accountable to God and his country." — Samuel Adams |
 little town of Bethlehem! How still we see thee lie;Above thy deep and dreamless sleep, The silent stars go by; Yet in thy dark streets shineth, The everlasting Light; — Phillips Brooks (Bishop of the Episcopal Church in MA after the Civil War) The hopes and fears of all the years, Are met in thee tonight. |
They are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law." Cecil B. DeMille, 1956 (opening of The Ten Commandments) |
 "For all its peculiarities and unevenness, the Bible has a simple story. God made man. Man rejected God. God won't give up until he wins him back. God will whisper. He will shout. He will touch and tug. He will take away our burdens; he'll even take away our blessings. If there are a thousand steps between us and him, he will take all but one. But he will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours. Please understand. His goal is not to make you happy. His goal is to make you His. His goal is not to get you what you want; it is to get you what you need." — from, A Gentle Thunder by Max Lucado |
 "It must be understood that there are no nominal, halfhearted, lukewarm Christians in Russia or China. The price Christians pay is far too great. The next point to remember is that persecution has always produced a better Christian - a witnessing Christian, a soul-winning Christian. Communist persecution has backfired and produced serious, dedicated Christians such as are rarely seen in free lands. These people cannot understand how anyone can be a Christian and not want to win every soul they meet." —Richard Wurmbrand in his book "Tortured for Christ" |
Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue |
“Christian Reconstruction is living by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4). What we must keep in mind is that the Word of God is creative and is therefore given to us for the purpose of rebuilding — or creating — Christian civilization.” “Is a man living by that creative word? Then he is at work establishing godly institutions, not in looking for fresh disgust. Those who have no creative word hate those who live by it... The godly man who, in terms of the creative word, is actively engaged in godly reconstruction.” - Dr. R.J. Rushdoony (Roots of Reconstruction) |
 “As we prepare to enter a new era in politics..keep something in mind: WE WIN! …[I]n the end those that remain faithful to Jesus Christ win the war…We may have to fight many battles outnumbered and even despised and looked upon as criminals and outcasts by a society that is unraveling and degenerating into something no one could have imagined. What matters is that we run the race to the finish line and fight the good fight. Don't 'go with the flow'…More than ever we shall have to be strong in the faith…Many saints will be forged in the crucible of the coming years. Make sure you are among them."— Fr. John Corapi |
Read this warning from Scots Historian Professor Alexander Tyler, circa 1787, Re: the fall of the Athenian Republic. "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse (generous gifts) from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasure, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship." "The average age of the world's greatest civilization has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence. From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency; from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back into bondage." |
 "While there is a drunkard left, while there is a lost girl upon the streets, where there remains one dark soul without the light of God-I'll fight! I'll fight to the very end." — William Booth (founder of Salvation Army) |
"For as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honors that we are fighting, but for freedom — for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself." — From the Declaration of Arbroath |
"Unless God is the source of all law, including moral law, man and the state will be the source of law and of morality."— Rushdoony, Roots of Reconstruction, p. 573 "The world is suffering for one reason: it's built upon the law of man rather than the law of God. Whether economics, education, or the family, when man establishes himself upon the sinking sand of his own mind, it is only a matter of time before his house is wrecked."—Chalcedon Foundation, April 2009 newsletter. |
"To live our lives and miss that great purpose we were designed to accomplish is truly a sin. It is inconceivable that we could be bored in a world with so much wrong to tackle, so much ignorance to reach and so much misery we could alleviate" - William Wilberforce - Real Christianity |
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—Theologian Alister McGrath (Understanding Doctrine: What It Is--and Why It Matters, p. 2) |
 "I was taught to respect everyone for the simple reason that we're all God's children. I was taught, in the words of Martin Luther King, to judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.And I was taught that character is simply doing what's right when nobody's looking." — Former Congressman J.C. Watts (In response to the President's 1997 State of the Union Address) |
 "What we do today will determine whether the America we love will survive as a free and moral nation. And I, for one, believe that we must stand and fight before it's too late."— John W. Whitehead, Stand and Fight (2009) |
| “The liberties of the American citizen depend upon the existence of established and known rules of limiting the authority and discretion of men wielding the power of the government.” — Richard Perry |
 "All societies of men must be governed in some way or other. The less they may have of stringent State Government, the more they must have of individual self-government. The less they rely on public law or physical force, the more they must rely on private moral restraint. Men in a word, must necessarily be controlled either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible or by the bayonet." — Robert Winthrop |
 "Courage, then, my countrymen; our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty." — Samuel Adams |
| Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc-ra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers. — Anonymous |
 "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will" — Vince Lombardi |
 "We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction." — Harry Ironside |
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"Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection..." 
Upon receiving the news of Washington's death, Congress selected Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee to deliver a eulogy on behalf of the nation. Lee, a former Continental army officer, a Virginia congressman, and a close associate of Washington for many years, delivered his speech on December 26, 1799. His words have endured for two hundred years:
"America needs God more than God needs America. If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under” “We can’t have it both ways. We can’t expect God to protect us in a crisis and just leave Him over there on the shelf in our day-to-day living. I wonder if sometimes He isn’t waiting for us to wake up, He isn’t maybe running out of patience." —President Ronald Reagan (1984 & 1982)
“A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” — Ben Franklin
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" —Patrick Henry
"In regard to this Great Book (The Bible), I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book. But for it, we would not know right from wrong." —President Abraham Lincoln (farewell at Springfield, II, February 11, 1861)
"The Bible carries with it the history of the creation, the fall and redemption of man, and discloses to him, in the infant born at Bethlehem, the legislator and savior of the world." —John Quincy Adams, addressing the American Bible Society
"That book, sir, is the rock on which our republic rests." —Andrew Jackson on his deathbed referring to the Bible.
"Almost every man who by his life's work added to the sum of human achievement of which the race is proud has based his life work largely upon the teachings of the Bible..." — Theodore Roosevelt
"Experience has shown, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." — Thomas Jefferson
"In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people." 
"Christianity has therefore retained a strong hold on the public mind in America... In the United States... Christianity itself is a fact so irresistibly established, that no one undertakes either to attack or to defend it." — Alexis de Tocqueville, in Book Two of Democracy in America, 1835.
"The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights... The time is come... to hear about responsibilities... America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government." —Peter Marshall, U.S. Senate Chaplain 1947
"I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour." 
"Law...communicated to us by reason and conscience...has been called natural; as promulgated by the Holy Scriptures, it has been called revealed... But it should always be remembered, that this law, natural or revealed... flows from the same divine source; it is the law of God."
"Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element." (1620)
"The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the...ignorant believe to be liberty." 
"All that we call human history - money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery - is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy." 
"Go on, then, in your generous enterprise with gratitude to Heaven for past success, and confidence of it in the future. For my own part, I ask no greater blessing than to share with you the common danger and common glory ... That these American States may never cease to be free and independent." — Samuel Adams
"Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai...but he has never improved on God's law... 
“Truth has within it the seeds of its own victory; 
“The world is not changed by futile rage nor by protests, but only as men, by the grace of God, reconstruct their lives, their calling, and the world around them in terms of God’s law-word. It is time to rebuild.” 
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.
Christianity is not a set of wooly and ill-defined (but vaguely benevolent) attitudes to the world in general and other human beings in particular. It is not an unstructured assortment of emotions or feelings. Rather, it centers on beliefs about Jesus Christ, which give rise to specific religious and moral attitudes to God, other human beings, and the world. Jesus Christ is the beginning, the center and the end of the Christian message of hope. At the heart of the Christian faith stands a person, not a doctrine—but a person who gives rise to doctrine the moment we begin to wrestle with the question, 'Who is Jesus Christ?' The idea that we can somehow worship, adore or imitate Jesus Christ without developing doctrines about him is indefensible.
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