If the enemy can destroy the Christian's passion for America,

then he has won the major battle for the soul of this nation.

Words of wisdom:

GEORGE WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS:

"Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to policitcal prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.  In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens....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."

DANIEL WEBSTER "To preserve the government we must also preserve morals.  Morality rests on religion; if you destroy the foundation, the superstructure must fall.  When the public mind becomes vitiated and corrupt, laws are nullity and constitutions are waste paper."

 JOHN ADAMS  "Statesmen...may plan and speculate for liberty but it is Religion and Morality alone which can establish the principles upon which Freedom can securely stand."

BENJAMIN RUSH " The only foundation for..a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.  Christianity is the only true and perfect religion."

 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN  "Only a viruous people are capable of freedom.  As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."

DANIEL WEBSTER  "The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws...All the miseries and evils which men suffer from, vice, crime, ambiiton, injustice, oppression, slavery and war proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible." 

 JAMES WILSON "Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is Divine...Far from being rivals or enemies, religion and law are twin sisters, friends and mutual assistants."

JOHN ADAMS  "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

HARVARD-first university founded in America by the Puritans "Christ is the only foundation for all sound knowledge and learning"  Motto then: "Truth for Christ and the Church" Motto now: Truth

PRINCETON 1746 Founding statement: "Cursed is all learning that is contrary to the Cross of Christ."

GOUVERNOUR MORRIS "Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion and the duties of man toward God."

 BENJAMIN RUSH (Signed the Declaration of Independence) " In contemplating the political institutions of the US, I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them.  We profess to be republican and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican form of government, that is, the universal education or our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible."

Revelation 2:5 "Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first...If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place."

Hosea 13:6

When I fed them, they were satisfied;

When they were satisfied, they became proud;

Then they forgot me.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN "We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven.  We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity.  We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten GOD. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.  Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!

 Remember, repent and return. Darkness does not overtake light.

Pray everyday and seek God's face!

GOD BLESS AMERICA

AND

IN GOD WE TRUST!

Read the "New England Primer"- the original 1st grade text book

Confederate Soldier's Prayer

I asked God for strength, that I might achieve,
I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey.

I asked God for health, that I might do greater things,
I was given infirmity, that I might do better things.

I asked for riches, that I might be happy,
I was given poverty, that I might be wise.

I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men,
I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God.

I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life,
I was given life, that I might enjoy all things.

I got nothing that I asked for
- but everything I had hoped for.

Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered.
I am among men, most richly blessed.

Found on the body of a Southern soldier
1861-1865