Category: Quote of the Day

“The state is a soulless machine. It can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“For Christians to influence the world with the truth of God’s Word requires the recovery of the great Reformation doctrine of vocation. Christians are called to God’s service not only in church professions but also in every secular calling. The task of restoring truth to the culture depends largely on our laypeople.” – J. Gresham Machen

“To progress, man must re-make himself, and he cannot re-make himself without suffering. For he is both the marble and the sculptor.” – Albert Einstein

“Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.” – James 1:12(KJV)

“Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.” Psalm 130:7-8 (KJV)

“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.” – Robert Heinlein

“I preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and am ready to give a defense of my doctrine and faith to all men, and at any time it is demanded of me. And if there be any priest, monk, or any other, whosoever he be, who can prove to me that I have taught anything contrary to the Word of God, I ask not only that you drive me out as a menace to your city, but also that you punish me with such severity that no man dare preach who is not well addured of his doctrine.” – Pierre Viret

“The true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients.” – Edmund Burke

“War is the most regrettable proving ground. Those who rush to launch it, and those who seek to create heroes from it, should remember its legacy. You have to be there to appreciate its horrors – and die to forget them.” – Vernon J. Baker, U.S. Army, Medal of Honor

“The common denominator in all government activity is the use of force: Government either forces you to do things, forces you not to do things, or forces you to pay for things.” – Doug Newman

“We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.” – Romans 15:1 (KJV)

“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.” – Psalm 119:105 & 106 (KJV)

“It took about 150 years, starting with a Bill of Rights that reserved to the states and the people all powers not explicitly delegated to the federal government, to produce a Supreme Court willing to rule that growing corn to feed to your own hogs is interstate commerce and can therefore be regulated by Congress.” – David Friedman

“Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” John Locke