Quotes and Realities
- Trust In God - He Is Our Refuge
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"My salvation and my honor depend on God; he is my mighty rock, my refuge. Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge. Selah [possibly meaning reflect or consider] Lowborn men are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie; if weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath. Do not trust in extortion or take pride in stolen goods; though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them. One thing God has spoken, two things have I heard: that you, O God, are strong, and that you O Lord, are loving...."
- Psalm 62:7-11a (NIV)
- Patrick Henry
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"[T]he rising greatness of our country... is greatly tarnished by the general prevalence of deism which, with me, is but another name for vice and depravity.... I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of their number; and indeed that some good people think I am no Christian. This thought gives me much more pain than the appellation of Tory [being called a traitor], because I think religion of infinitely higher importance than politics.... [B]eing a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast."
- Patrick Henry: Attorney; member of House of Burgesses, member of Continental Congress, member of State Assembly where he gave his famous “Give me liberty, or give me death” speech; Governor of Virginia, member of State convention that ratified the U.S. Constitution.
Quoted from: Barton, David, Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion (Aledo, TX: Wallbuilder Press, 2010), 151: originally quoted from Arnold, S.G., The Life of Patrick Henry of Virginia (Auburn: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1854), 249-250.
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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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