Monday, August 10, 2009
Posted by: Joshua Alcorn
Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God…What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be.
Diary Entry of John Adams, later the 2nd president of the United States, on February 22, 1756
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Friday, July 17, 2009
Posted by: Joshua Alcorn
The Rules and Precepts of Harvard University, 1642.
2. Let every Student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies, is to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life (John 17:3) and therefore to lay Christ in the bottom as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning….Let everyone seriously set himself by prayer in secret.
3. Everyone one shall so exercise himself in reading the Scriptures twice a day, that he shall be ready to give an account of his proficiency therein.
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Monday, June 15, 2009
Posted by: Joshua Alcorn
“Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.”
-John Jay, co-author of the Federalist Papers and first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
October 12, 1816
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Posted by: Joshua Alcorn
“To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys…. All efforts to destroy the foundations of our holy religion, ultimately tend to the subversion also of our political freedom and happiness. Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present … forms of government, and all the blessings which flow from them, must fall with them.”
-Jedediah Morse, “The Father of American Geography”
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Friday, April 17, 2009
Posted by: Joshua Alcorn
“And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
-George Washington, Farewell Speech on September 19, 1796
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Posted by: Joshua Alcorn
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion….Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
-John Adams, 1798
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Thursday, July 03, 2008
Posted by: Joshua Alcorn
“We have staked the future of all of 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,
chief architect of the Constitution
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Posted by: Joshua Alcorn
I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord’s side.
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Friday, March 07, 2008
Posted by: Joshua Alcorn
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
From the day of the Declaration…they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledge as the rules of their conduct.
John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the US.
July 4, 1821
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
Posted by: Joshua Alcorn
“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 their fellow citizens of the United States at large…Grant our supplication, we beseech Thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen”
-George Washington
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Posted by: Bill Lewis
We want to wish you a very Merry Christmas! We hope you enjoy the celebration of our Savior’s birth.
As families and friends gather to celebrate Christmas, we remember all the blessings that fill our lives, beginning with the great blessing that came on a holy night in Bethlehem. For Christians around the world, the birth of Jesus is a central religious event; an example of God’s profound love for humanity; and the pathway to hope and to new life. Today, the Christmas story still speaks to every generation.
George W. Bush, Christmas Message 2003
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Monday, December 03, 2007
Posted by: Bill Lewis
Having just celebrated Thanksgiving, I’m struck afresh by the covenant the Pilgrims made with the Lord and one another before they landed at Plymouth Rock. The Mayflower Compact paved the way for representative democracy in America.
In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign Lord King James by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, Ireland, King, Defender of the faith, etc.
Having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith, and Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and of one another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid;
and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
In witness whereof we have hereunder inscribed our names at Cape Cod, the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini 1620.
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Monday, November 19, 2007
Posted by: Joshua Alcorn
To some generations much is given. To others much is demanded, this generation has a rendezvous with destiny.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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