I still can hardly believe it. I, with shriveled, bent fingers, atrophied muscles, gnarled knees, and no feeling from the shoulders down, will one day have a new body, light, bright, and clothed in righteousness--powerful and dazzling. Can you imagine the hope this gives someone spinal-cord injured like me? Or someone who is cerebral palsied, brain-injured, or who has multiple sclerosis? Imagine the hope this gives someone who is manic-depressive. No other religion, no other philosophy promises new bodies, hearts, and minds. Only in the Gospel of Christ do hurting people find such incredible hope.-Joni Eareckson-Tada (1949- )_Heaven: Your Real Home_ [1995], Chapter 3
Heaven will be deeply appreciated by the disabled, who will be liberated from ravaged bodies and minds, and by the sick and elderly who will be free from their pains and restrictions. They will walk and run and see and hear, some for the first time. Hymn writer Fanny Crosby said, "Don't pity me for my blindness, for the first face I ever see will be the face of my Lord Jesus." -Randy Alcorn (1954- ) _Money, Possessions, And Eternity_ [2003]
No free government now exists in the world, unless where Christianity is acknowledged, and is the religion of the country. Christianity is part of the common law of this state. It is not proclaimed by the commanding voice of any human superior, but expressed in the calm and mild accents of the common law of the State. Its foundations are broad, and strong, and deep: they are laid in the authority, the interest, the affections of the people. Waiving all questions of hereafter, it is the purest system of morality, the firmest auxiliary, and only stable support of all human laws.-The State Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 1824. Updegraph v. Commonwealth; 11 Serg. & R. 393, 406 (Sup.Ct. Penn. 1824)
The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men. -Samuel Adams (1722 -1803), letter to James Warren, November 4, 1775. Quotation marks were used by Adams.
The statement was first used by James Burgh (1714-1775) in his Political Disquisitions (published in three volumes in 1774-1775).
"When you can't trace His hand, you must learn to trust His heart" - Spurgeon
No comments:
Post a Comment