Quotes and Realities
- God's Loving Response To Our Sin
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"Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. But your iniquities [sin, evil] have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. For your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters wicked things. No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case with integrity. They rely on empty arguments and speak lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.... ...so his own arm worked salvation for him, and his own righteousness sustained him...." [To Read about God's Redemption and Good News, click here]
- Isaiah 59:1-4, 16b (NIV)
- Benjamin Rush
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"I cannot help remarking in this place, that [C]hristianity exerts the most friendly influence upon science, as well as upon the morals and manners of mankind. ... I believe that the greatest discoveries in science have been made by [C]hristian philosophers, and that there is the most knowledge in those countries where there is the most [C]hristianity. If this remark be well founded, then those philosophers who reject [C]hristianity, and those [C]hristians, whether parents or school-masters, who neglect the religious instruction of their children and pupils, reject and neglect the most effectual means of promoting knowledge in our country." [Note: Emphasis is Dr. Rush's]
- Benjamin Rush: Educator; Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Surgeon-General of the Continental Army, co-founder of Dickinson College, influential delegate to Pennsylvania state convention for the ratification of the U. S. Federal Constitution, co-author of the Pennsylvania Constitution, Treasurer of the U.S. Mint, Founder and Vice-President of the Philadelphia Bible Society, Founder and President of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, member of the Abolition Society.
Quoted from: Rush, Benjamin, Essays Literary, Moral, Philosophical: Thoughts Upon Female Education, Accommodated to the Present State of Society, Manners, and Government, in the United States Of America (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Thomas and William Bradford, 1806), 83-84.
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Have you ever read the Constitution and wondered “what were the Founders intentions behind this or that phrase?” The US Constitution in the Resources section contains online references to the Federalist Papers – an early work by three founding fathers on the intention of each section of the US Constitution. But, if you are looking for something more lively, you could turn to the records of the continental congress link in the Resources section, under Congressional Records, or Elliot's or Farrand's records of the debates, or read about the intentions in the more personalized correspondence, writings and letters of the founders.
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