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"righteousness exalteth a nation but sin is a reproach to any people" Proverbs 14:34

"It behooves us then to humble ouselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness..." Abraham Lincoln, 1863

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justistice cannot sleep forever." Thomas Jefferson, 1871

"The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained." George Washington, 1789

"I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning...." Ben Franklin, 1787

'The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible', "In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths." George Washington Carver, 1939

"God in his providence, has given us a Book of His revealed will to be with us at the commencement of our career in thisl ife and at its termination; and to accompany us during all chances and changes of this trying and fitful progress,to control the passions , to enlighten the judgement, to guide the conscience, to teach us what we ought to do here, and what we shall be hereafter." Lewis Cass, 1846

"The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be pratically universal in our country." Calvin Coolidge, 1923

"I was a young man with unformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them." Charles Darwin's comment regarding Evolution
"Christ Jesus and his salvation. Is not that the best theme?" Charles Darwin's comment regarding Christianity

"We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come." Samuel Adams at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, 1776

"God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing." C.S. Lewis, 1952

"I just want to do God's will . And He's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land." Martin Luther King, 1968

"The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth." George Mason, 1776

"There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion; no orations equal to those of the prophets; and no polotics like those which the Scriptures teach." John Milton

"It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and chold-like faith, has suffered and died for me, andthat He will look on me in love and compassion." Wolfgang Mozart, 1778

"If you(General Bertrand)do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you a general." Napoleaon Bonaparte 1, 1816

"The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Into his tiniest creatures, God has placed extraordinary properties that turn them into agents of destruction of dead matter." Louis Pasteur,

"It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowleged dependence upon God and His overruling providence." Franklin Pierce, 1853

"Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience...without God there is a coarsening of the society; without God democracy will not and cannot long endure...If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." Ronald Reagan, 1984

"A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian church had a heavy account to answer. Not by combining together, to protect injusjustice and cruelty, and making a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved, but by repentance justice and mercy." Harriet B. Stowe, 1852

"I am glad I am blind, because the first face I will see, will be the face of Christ." Fanny Crosby

References:
America's God and Country, Encyclopedia of Quotations
New World History and Geography, A Beka Book

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