Quotes on Christian Heritage

The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.