Category: Quote of the Day

"To confess you were wrong yesterday, is only to acknowledge that you are a little wiser today." – Charles Spurgeon

"A people may want a free government; but if, from insolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it; if they will not fight for it when it is directly attacked; if they can be deluded by the artifices used to cheat them out of it; if by momentary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual they can be induced to lay their liberties at the feet of even a great man, or trust him with powers which enable him to subvert their institutions; …

“God rest you merry Gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay; Remember Christ our Saviour, Was born on Christmas-day; To save our souls from Satan’s power, Which long time had gone astray: This brings Tydings of Comfort and Joy.” – from “Three New Carols for Christmas”, Wolverhampton, printed by J. Smart, circa 1760

“And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, the the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.” – The Gospel of Luke 2:8-11 (KJV)

“Be on your guard against the ruling power; for they who exercise it draw no man near to them except for their own interests; appearing as friends when it is to their own advantage, they stand not by a man in the hour of his need.” [2:3] “Judge not your neighbor until you have come into his place.” [2:5] “In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man.” [2:6] “Let your friend’s honor be as dear to you as your own.” [2:15] – Selected quotes from “Sayings of the Fathers” in the Standard Prayer Book, a …

"Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become." – Brooke Foss Westcott

"Assessing, developing, attaining and sustaining needed emergency preparedness, response and recovery capabilities is a difficult task that requires sustained leadership… there is no silver bullet, no easy formula." – William Jenkins

“Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them..” – Nehemiah 4:9 (KJV)

"Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist – it reduces him to his fighting weight." – Josh Billings

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." – Edwin H. Chapin

"Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction." – Thomas Jefferson

"We pay too little attention to the reserve power of the people to take care of themselves. We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong." – President John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.

“One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell

“Sure I am that this day – now we are the masters of our fate; that the task which has been set us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our cause and an unconquerable will-power, salvation will not be denied us.” – Winston Churchill, addressing a joint session of the US Congress, December 26, 1941

"Just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to trust God one circumstance at a time…We honor God by choosing to trust Him when we don’t understand what He is doing or why He has allowed some adverse circumstance to occur." – Jerry Bridges