“Hard work and earning a living are the ethics of past generations that are slowly being ground to dust in the flurry to socialize  America and re-distribute wealth.  Having succeeded and having money is now thought of as a crime not far behind rape and arson.”  Mark Grant

 Jeremy Myers wrote a post entitled The Worldwide Threat of Christian Moderates in which he said,

I believe that many of us Christians needlessly endanger the lives of other people simply by the way we live.

“The threat is not from those who see what is wrong with the world and try to do something about it. The threat is from those who do not care to know what is going on the world. It is apathy, not activism, which threatens nations and destroys lives, because when we haven’t a care in the world we tend not to care for those in the world either.”

“Being a Christian … is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast. … The Bible is a book worth more than all the other books that were ever printed. … This is all the inheritance I can give to my dear family. The religion of Christ can give them one, which will make them rich indeed.” –Patrick Henry

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“Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.” -Mollie Marti

“For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.” –Patrick Henry

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human  passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or  gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes  through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious  people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.” – John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798 in  an Address to the military

The words of Thomas Paine in 1776 ring just as true today: “The summer soldier and sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country.” There are no fair-weather soldiers among our ranks.

A year later, just before the brutal Winter at Valley Forge, George Washington wrote, “We should never despair. … If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times.”