A Worthy Quote

[airIam2worship]

 
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies; for the hardest victory is victory over self. --Aristotle

[airIam2worship]

 
If any lift of mine may ease the burden of another, God give me love and care and strength to help my ailing brother. -Anonymous

[nChrist]

"An informed patriotism is what we want. And are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world? Those of us who are over thirty-five or so years of age grew up in a different America. We were taught, very directly, what it means to be an American. And we absorbed, almost in the air, a love of country and an appreciation of its institutions. If you didn't get these things from your family, you got them from the neighborhood, from the father down the street who fought in Korea or the family who lost someone at Anzio. Or you could get a sense of patriotism from school. And if all else failed, you could get a sense of patriotism from the popular culture. The movies celebrated democratic values and implicitly reinforced the idea that America was special." — Ronald Reagan

(My Note: This was even more true regarding the Things of GOD, respect for GOD, reverence for GOD, and the diligent teaching of the things of GOD to children before they could even talk. This upsets me much more than patriotism, but I must add that GOD was also a big part of patriotism.)

[Shammu]

What shall I give you, Lord, in return for all Your kindness?

Glory to You for Your love.
Glory to You for Your mercy.
Glory to You for Your patience.
Glory to You for forgiving us all our sins.
Glory to You for coming to save our souls.
Glory to You for Your incarnation in the virgin's womb.
Glory to You for Your bonds.
Glory to You for receiving the cut of the lash.
Glory to You for accepting mockery.
Glory to You for Your crucifixion.
Glory to You for Your burial.
Glory to You for Your resurrection.
Glory to You who were preached to men and women.
Glory to You in whom they believed.
Glory to You who were taken up into heaven.
Glory to You who sit in great glory at the Father's right hand.
Glory to You whose will it is that the sinner should be saved through Your great mercy and compassion.

Ephraem of Syria (ca. 306-373)

[airIam2worship]

Amen and Amen!! Glory to God in the highest.

[nChrist]

The Patriot Post
Founders' Quote Daily

"The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time;
the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."

-- Thomas Jefferson (Rights of British America, 1774)

Reference: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Lipscomb and Bergh,

[nChrist]

The Patriot Post
Founders' Quote Daily

"Remember, my Eliza, you are a Christian."

-- Alexander Hamilton (speaking to his grieving wife, 7/12/1804)

Reference: Facts and Documments..., Editor of the Evening Post,
ed. (23); original letter from David Hosack, August 17, 1804

[Shammu]

If we exalt money, status, or sex above the Word of God, we are living in idolatry. Every time we inwardly submit to the strongholds of fear, bitterness, and pride, we are bowing to the rulers of darkness. Each of these idols must be smashed, splintered, and obliterated from the landscape of our hearts. - Francis Frangipane


From a heart overflowing with gratitude, we will want to honour and glorify God by gratefully offering back to Him the many good gifts He has bestowed on us. We will not go to church to be entertained, to see "what we can get out of it" for our own private gratification, but rather to praise and worship the triune God of grace and glory - Anonymous


When we go through trials and troubles we can always rely on God and know that He will be with us and will help us through. Clouds and rain can help make your roots strong and give you stability if you let God work through them. David in Psalms 124:1 - 8 expressed the same idea. So let us rejoice in our clouds and rain and know that God is still in control even when we can't see Him. - David Vincent

[Soldier4Christ]

"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution,are worth defending at all hazards and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors;
they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood."
... Samuel Adams, 1771


"Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in that field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? 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

[Soldier4Christ]

C. S. Lewis

A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.


Thomas Paine

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.

[Soldier4Christ]

"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a patriot." -- Mark Twain

[Soldier4Christ]

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson


God enters by a private door into every individual. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Soldier4Christ]

Dwight Lyman Moody (1837–1899)


Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and
my purposes, and bend his government according to my foolish,
silly, and sometimes sinful notions. Prayer means that I am to be
raised up into feeling, into union and design with him; that I am
to enter into his counsel and carry out his purpose fully.




Salvation is worth working for. It is worth a man's going round the
world on his hands and knees, climbing its mountains, crossing its
valleys, swimming its rivers, going through all manner of hardship in
order to attain it. But we do not get it in that way. It is to him who
believes.

[nChrist]

The Patriot Post
Founders' Quote Daily

"It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive
in it [the Constitution] a finger of that Almighty hand which
has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in
the critical stages of the revolution."

-- James Madison (Federalist No. 37, 11 January 1788 )

[nChrist]

"There is a terrible lot of us who don't think that we come from a monkey, but if there are some people who think that they do, why, it's not our business to rob them of what little pleasure they might get out of imagining it." — Will Rogers

(My Note:    )