Our Nation's Christian Heritage - Quotes from our Founding Fathers
This entry was posted on Thursday, May 31. 2007 and is filed under Social Issues.
A number of people have asked if the quotes from last weekend's video,
Sure Foundations, were available online anywhere. Here you go!
It’s been said that it’s easy to lose touch with who you really are when you forget where it is you have come from.
"I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man." – Alexander Hamilton
"The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded." – James Madison
"The reason that Christianity is the best friend of the government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart." – Thomas Jefferson
"The Bible is the rock upon which this Republic stands." – Andrew Jackson
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians. Not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faith have been afforded asylum, prosperity and freedom of worship here." – Patrick Henry
"If we abide by the principals in the Bible our country will go on prospering and to prosper, but if we and our prosperity neglect its instruction and authority, no man can tell how suddenly a catastrophe can overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity." – Daniel Webster
"America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness, which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scriptures… That if they would see America free and pure, they will make their own spirits free and pure, by this baptism of the Holy Spirit." – Woodrow Wilson
