Inspiring Quotes
from the Prayer Brigade
Pope Leo XIII - "Libertas Praestantissimum"
Many there are who follow in the footsteps of Lucifer, and adopt as their own rebellious cry, 'I will not serve,' and consequently substitute true liberty for what is sheer and most foolish license. Such, for instance, are the men belonging to that widely spread and powerful organization who, usurping the name of liberty, style themselves liberals.
Daniel Webster:
I have lived, Sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men.
Abraham Lincoln:
Those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
George Washington:
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.
William Penn:
If we will not be governed by God, we must be governed by tyrants.
Alexis de Tocqueville:
Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the greatness and genius of America. America is good. And if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
Thomas Jefferson:
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
Benjamin Franklin:
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
John Adams:
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion...Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Noah Webster:
The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and law... All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
Thomas Jefferson:
All men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil liberties.
Noah Webster:
Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the Christian religion.
George Washington:
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
George Washington:
It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor.
Benjamin Rush, Founding Father:
I have alternatively been called an Aristocrat or a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat!
John Adams:
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence for the illumination of the ignorant, and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
Mother Teresa:
What you are doing I may not be able to do....What I am doing you may not be able to do.... But all of us together are doing something beautiful for God.
Lord Alfred Tennyson:
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
Jonathan Edwards - 1742:
I have often said it would be a thing very desirable, and very likely to be followed with a great blessing, if there could be some contrivance, that there should be an agreement of all God's people in America... to keep a Day of Fasting and Prayer to God; wherein, we should all unite on the same day... It seems to me, it would mightily encourage and animate God's saints, in humbly and earnestly seeking God, for such blessings which concerns them all; and that it would be much for the rejoicing of all, to think, that at the same time such multitudes of God's dear children, far and near, were sending up their cries to the same common Father for the same motives.
Benjamin Franklin:
He who shall introduce into the public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
Thomas Jefferson:
And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis - a conviction in the minds of people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.
James Madison:
We have staked the whole future of America's civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions ...upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.
President John Adams:
The highest story of the American Revolution is this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
Pius XI in the Encyclical on the Kingship of Jesus Christ:
When once men recognize, both in private and public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessing of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.
Patrick Henry:
It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.
President George Washington, September 17th, 1796:
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
United States Supreme Court, 1844:
Why may not the Bible, and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in the school? Where can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?
Noah Webster, History of the United States, 1832, public school textbook:
The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His Apostles.... This is genuine Christianity and to this we owe our free constitutions of government.
First Chief Justice of Supreme Court John Jay:
Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers. And it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest, of a Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.
President Andrew Jackson:
The Bible is the Rock on which this Republic rests.
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