"Thus suffering, too, becomes a token of victory, because it leads one in the footprints of Christ." —Herman Ridderbos
"No one can live without joy. That is why when one is deprived of spiritual joy one becomes addicted to worldly pleasures." Thomas Aquinas
"Joys are always on the way to us. They are always traveling to us through the darkness of the night. There is never a night when they are not coming."Amy Carmichael, reflecting on Psalm 30:5
"The Christian should be an alleluia from head to foot."Augustine of Hippo
Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
God has a way of standing before the nations with justice and it seems I can hear God saying to America "You are too arrogant, and if you don't change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I will place it in the hands of a nation that doesn't even know my name." --Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)(In a speech at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; August 16, 1967.)
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