Whatever we ask on the basis of Christ’s work, in line with Christ’s character, consistent with Christ’s promises, for the glory of Christ’s Father, Christ will certainly do for us. Story of the Word: Meditations on the Narrative of Scripture - Jonathan Leeman(Wipf and Stock, 2017).(89)
We are a nation whose ideals were founded on the Bible. Also it is quite impossible to understand our literature without grasping this fact That is the strong practical case for ensuring that children at school are given adequate instruction in the part which the Judaeo-Christian tradition has played in moulding our laws manners and institutions. How can you make sense of Shakespeare and Sir Walter Scott or the constitutional conflicts of the 17th century in both Scotland and England, without such fundamental knowledge? But I would go further than this. The truths of the Judaeo-Christian tradition are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long .there is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves. Political structures, state institutions, collective ideals are not enough ... (democracy requires) the life of faith as much to the temporal masters as to the spiritual welfare of the nation. - Margaret Thatcher, speech 1988, quoted in Vishal Mangalwadi, The book that made your World, p 162
The Bible has had a literary influence upon English literature not because it has been considered as literature, but because it is has been considered as the report of the Word of God-TS Eliot, Selected Essays, quoted in Vishal Mangalwadi, The book that made your World, p 183
England with all my faults I love the still. - William Cowper, England. - quoted in Vishal Mangalwadi, The book that made your World, p 174
Russia, a superpower, was reduced in bankruptcy because the state deliberately rejected one of the 10 Commandments, 'You shall not steal'. In the name of collectivisation it took away citizens property. They had to work not for themselves or their children, but for their secular God the state.- Vishal Mangalwadi, The book that made your World, p 326
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