Quotes 2002
January - 2002
"Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded empires; but upon what do these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love; and to this very day millions would die for Him." - Napoleon Bonaparte
February - 2002
"If we will not be governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants." - William Penn
March - 2002
"It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom." - Horace Greeley
April - 2002
"We can preach the Gospel of Christ no further than we have experienced the power of it in our own hearts." - George Whitefield
May - 2002
"I sought for the greatness of the United States in her commodious harbors, her ample rivers, her fertile fields, and boundless forests - and it was not there. I sought for it in her rich mines, her vast world commerce, her public schools system and in her institutions of higher leaning - and it was not there. I looked for it in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution - and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great!" - Alexis de Tocqueville, The Democracy of the United States
June - 2002
"Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final." - Charles Sumner
July - 2002
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." - George Washington
August - 2002
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." - C. S. Lewis
September - 2002
"The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father." - C. H. Spurgeon
October - 2002
"If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything. Things can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is false, but nothing can be irrelevant to the proposition that Christianity is true." - G. K. Chesterton
November - 2002
"The believer can also know that Christ is the goal of History... We do not know what will come. But we know who will come. And if the last hour belongs to us, we need not fear the next minute." - Helmut Thielicke, The Silence of God
December - 2002
"The Bible is no mere book, but it's a living creature with a power that conquers all who oppose it." - Napoleon Bonaparte