What They Said

"Religion begat prosperity and the daughter devoured the mother."

"The gospel is not an announcement that God has relaxed his justice or lowered the standard of His holiness."

"All Christians should make their houses and families a schoolhouse of a godly life."

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

“Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner”

"Sin and grace may stand together, but not love of sin and grace."

"The source of sovereign authority is found in God alone and not in the will of the people nor in human law. "

"There is no death of sin without the death of Christ."

“Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of”

“Many think they repent when it is not the offence, but the penalty which troubles them; not the treason, but the bloody axe. They think they repent when they shed a few tears; but though this ice begins to melt a little, it freezeth again; they go on still in sin.”

"I see from the number of physicians that you think my condition dangerous, but I thank God, if it is His will, that I am ready to go."  

“It is impossible for men by their own strength and natural ability to become Christians, but it is possible for God to make them Christians.”

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." 

"The lives of Christians are the transcripts of their doctrine."

"The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh."

"Christ will be all in all, or nothing at all."

"I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did."

"As the heart is, so will the service be."

"As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low."

"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; 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. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men."

“In a strict sense, there is no little sin, because there is no little God to sin against “

“I consider the difference between a system founded on
the legislatures only, and one founded on the people, to be the true difference between a league or treaty and a constitution.”

“Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those solid, lively, heavenly treatises which best expound and apply the scriptures, and next, credible histories, especially of the Church … but take heed of false teachers who would corrupt your understandings.”

God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm.

Deep in unfathomable mines
Of never failing skill
He treasures up His bright designs
And works His sovereign will.

Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take;
The clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercy and shall break
In blessings on your head.

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust Him for His grace;
Behind a frowning providence
He hides a smiling face.

His purposes will ripen fast,
Unfolding every hour;
The bud may have a bitter taste,
But sweet will be the flower.

Blind unbelief is sure to err
And scan His work in vain;
God is His own interpreter,
And He will make it plain.

"The government is best which governs least."

“…, having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid;..”

“The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted”

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."