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Revivals begin with God's own people; the Holy Spirit touches their heart anew, and gives them new fervor and compassion, and zeal, new light and life, and when He has thus come to you, He next goes forth to the valley of dry bones…Oh, what responsibility this lays on the Church of God! If you grieve Him away from your...selves, or hinder His visit, then the poor perishing world suffers sorely! -Andrew Bonar-

"Close up, men, close up; push on, push on." - Stonewall Jackson

"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by
what others say about him." ~Leo Aikman~

"The Church must send or the church will end." -- Mendell Taylor

"Never take counsel of your fears." - Stonewall Jackson

"The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet." -- Unknown -

Too many people spend today living in the failures of the past and completely miss the promise of the future -AlanHarris-

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. -Zig Ziglar-

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will. - Jonathon Edwards-

"God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it."

- Daniel Webster, American statesman -

"It's time to quit playing church and start being the Church (Matt. 18:20)" - Keith Green -

'What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look' - unknown -

"Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty."
— Corrie Ten Boom

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Winston Churchill

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.
Max Lucado

"A wise and frugal government which shall leave men free to regulate their
own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned — this is the sum of good government."

— Thomas Jefferson

'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it. - Leonard Bacon (1802-1881) -Pastor First Church (Congregational) in New Haven, Connecticutt

"We can make a difference. We can change the direction of this
country simply by going before the Lord in our closets in our private time and
asking for His guidance and leadership."

— Dr. James C. Dobson, founder and chairman emeritus of Focus on the Family

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman. - George W. Bush

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. - John Wayne

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. - Herbert Hoover

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. -
John F. Kennedy

"Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country."

— President George Washington

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ. - Jimmy Carter

"If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one
of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large."

— William Wilberforce, British politician

"Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedoms of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."

— James Madison, June 16, 1788

"If the laws are to be so trampled upon, with impunity, and a minority (a small one too) is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put, at one stroke, to republican government." — George Washington

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

“This is a Christian nation. … We find everywhere a clear recognition of the same truth.” — U.S. Supreme Court, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, Feb. 29, 1892

“Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.” John Wayne

"Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character." — Horace Greeley

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." — Benjamin Franklin, 1787

"We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatsoever." — Sir Isaac Newton

The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened. By Norman Thomas 6 time Social Party Presidential Candidate 1948

"I have never yet left the enemy in command of the battlefield" General Robert E. Lee

"Each Christian, whether politically conservative or liberal, answers … a call to discipleship, to love others, and to proclaim truth, made by a Jewish carpenter almost 2,000 years ago. And He gave the marching orders: 'Go ye, therefore …...'" — Joel D. Vaughan, final words of The Rise and Fall of the Christian Coalition

"Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet

"I am appalled so-called health care reform legislation will mandate taxpayer-funded abortion coverage for nearly every insurance plan in America. The new Democratic majority is ... trying to sneak abortion coverage into their health care bill t...hat so clearly goes against what the majority of Americans want. This is unlawful and goes against the right of conscience." — U.S. Rep. Dr. Phil Roe, R-Tenn.

"God is in control, and He can bring triumph out of tragedy." —
Dr. James C. Dobson

"Can the liberties of a nation be secure, when we have removed the conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?" —Thomas Jefferson

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." President Ronald Reagan

"Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built." Dr. James Dobson

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Teddy Roosevelt

"Those who make peaceful resolution impossible will make violent resolution inevitable" - President John F. Kennedy in a speech at the White House in 1962

"Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand." — John Adams, 1776

The story we’re called to tell and live and die by is one of risk confronted, death embraced. What’s more, Jesus calls us to walk the narrow way, take up a cross with him, daily. It’s terribly risky business. Ask that bright company of martyrs th...at quite recklessly parted with goods, security, and life itself, preferring to be faithful in death rather than safe in life. - William Willimon

"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." — David Hume, Scottish historian

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no court, no law can save it." — Learned Hand, The Spirit of Liberty, 1944

Men of strong courage and moral character will not always do what is right in the court of popular public opinion but will instead follow the conviction of their consciences - Pastor Alan Harris

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” -Jimmy Dean

"there is nothing un-American about disagreements. In fact, our great nation was founded on speaking our minds." - Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there,
no constitution, no court, no law can save it."

— Learned Hand, The Spirit of Liberty, 1944

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

Martin Luther

"Well done is better than well said."

Benjamin Franklin

Every time we pray, our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don’t pray more. - Oswald Chambers