There is no use crying about it. Cousin America has run off with a Presbyterian parson, and that is the end of it. - Horace Walpole, referring to John Witherspoon, president of Princeton University (the "seminary of sedition"), and the only minister to sign the Declaration of Independence. Witherspoon was not only one of the founding fathers, he was the instructor of the founding fathers. Nine of the 55 delegates at the Constitutional Convention had been students of Witherspoon.

The Revolution of 1776, so far as it was affected by religion, was a Presbyterian measure. It was the natural outgrowth of the principles which the Presbyterianism of the Old World planted in her sons, the English Puritans, the Scotch Covenanters, the French Huguenots, the Dutch Calvinists, and the Presbyterians of Ulster. ~ George Bancroft

As man cannot keep all the commandments, it must be done for him by surety. Christ not only obeyed all the commandments on behalf of man, but he also bore the penalty of death. But though we are freed from the penalty of death, we are still bound to obey the law. Yet that obedience is not to gain acceptance with God, but rather it is an expression of gratitude to God for our deliverance from death. Are we, then, freed from obedience? Yes. We are free from obeying the law in our own strength, and we are freed from obeying it in order to obtain everlasting life.- John Owen, Communion with God

Does God love His people while they are sinning? Yes! He loves his people but does not love their sinning. Doesn't God's love change towards them? Not the purpose of His will to love them, but the working out of His gracious acts and disciplines towards them is changed. He rebukes them, disciplines them, hides His face from them, smites them, fills them with a sense with His indignation, but woe to us if He should change His love, or take away His kindness from us.- John Owen

Man was never made to live independently from God. Eyes are beautiful and useful, but if they try to see without light, their beauty and power will be of no use and the eyes might even be damaged. And if the unconverted mind tries to see spiritual things without the help of the Holy Spirit of God, it will only end up destroying itself. - John Owen