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)
- James McHenry
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"[T]he Holy Scriptures.... can alone secure to society, order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability, and usefulness. In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments [defenses] around our institutions. Bibles are strong entrenchments [protections]. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses."
- James McHenry: Soldier captured and exchanged in Revolution, Military Secretary to General George Washington, member of Continental Congress, delegate to Constitutional Convention where he signed the federal Constitution, member of the State convention to ratify the federal Constitution, secretary of War under Presidents George Washington and John Adams, a founder and President of the Baltimore Bible Society.
Quoted from: Barton, David, Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion (Aledo, TX: Wallbuilder Press, 2010), 328: originally quoted from Steiner, Bernard C., One Hundred and Ten Years of Bible Society Work in Maryland, 1810-1920 (Baltimore: Maryland Bible Society, 1921), 14.
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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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