I haven't posted in a long while. Facebook seems to have replaced much of my musings. But on this July 4th, I just want to take a moment to remind myself how very blessed we are to live in this country, and how it is the responsibility of Christian citizens to get involved in order to preserve and protect what God has established!!
"They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society. They reared the fabrics of governments which have no model on the face of the globe. they formed the design of a great Confederacy, which it is incumbent on their successors to improve and perpetuate." -James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 14
"They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society. They reared the fabrics of governments which have no model on the face of the globe. they formed the design of a great Confederacy, which it is incumbent on their successors to improve and perpetuate." -James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 14
"As grace is at first from God, so it is continually from him, and is maintained by him, as much as light in the atmosphere is all day long from the sun." -Jonathan Edwards
"Strive to the be greatest man in your country, and you may be disappointed; strive to be the best, and you may succeed." -Benjamin Franklin
"On my arrival in the United States it was the religious aspect of the country that first struck my eye." -Alezis De Tocqueville, 1826
"Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few; it is the universal right of all God's children." -Ronald Reagan
"He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat:
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat:
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant my feet!
Our God is marching on!"
-Julia Ward Howe, published version of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" 1861
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