Practical Quotations » God

John Jay

John Jay — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:56:16 +0000

The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:35:08 +0000

God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God?

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:32:19 +0000

Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever…

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:07:41 +0000

The practice of morality being necessary for the well being of society, He [God] has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain.

Charles Carroll

Charles Carroll — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:18:52 +0000

I, Charles Carroll. . . . give and bequeath my soul to God who gave it, my body to the earth, hoping that through and by the merits, sufferings, and mediation of my only Savior and Jesus Christ, I may be admitted into the Kingdom prepared by God.

George Washington

George Washington — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:07:46 +0000

I now make it my earnest prayer that God would… most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of the mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion.

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:54:10 +0000

There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second is the immortality of the human soul; and the third is a future state of rewards and punishments. Suppose it possible for a man to disbelieve either of these three articles of faith and that man will have no conscience, he will have no other law than that of the tiger or the shark.

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:48:48 +0000

And may the associated distribution of the Bible proceed and prosper till the Lord shall have made “bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God” [Isaiah 52:10].

John Adams

John Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:30:44 +0000

The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.