February 5th, 2007

"Sorrow is founded on the value of something, pessimism upon the value of nothing."
- G. K. Chesterton "As I Was Saying" (p 267)

"Hope, like character, takes years to build and minutes to shatter."
- Ravi Zacharias (www.rzim.org) A Slice of Infinity, "Something of Value"

"For with the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be."
- James 3:9-11

Question: "The problem was, and is, What is an adequate base for law? What is adequate so that the human aspiration for freedom can exist without anarchy, and yet provides a form that will not become arbitrary tyranny?"
- Francis Schaeffer "A Christian Manifesto" (p 27)

"A republic once equally poised must either preserve its virtue or lose its liberty"
- John Witherspoon

"If we are not governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants."
-William Penn