This principled stand has allowed More to be portrayed as a martyr, a man who died for his principles. Hmm. More lied to Parliament, lied to the public, tortured his opponents and reintroduced the burning of heretics. For which he was canonised and made the patron saint of politicians and statesmen. You couldn't make it .- Up A nearly infallible history of the Reformation by Nick Page Page 251
"William Penn (1644-1718) had expressed ... "If we are not governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants." This consensus was as natural as breathing in the United States at that time. We must not forget that many of those who came to America from Europe came for religious purposes. As they arrived, most of them established their own individual civil governments based upon the Bible. It is, therefore, totally foreign to the basic nature of America at the time of the writing of the Constitution to argue a separation doctrine that implies a secular state."- Dr. Francis Schaeffer, A Christian Manifesto.
Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits, aflame with righteousness, did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
~Alexis de Tocqueville
Moses spent 40 years thinking he was somebody; 40 learning he was nobody; and 40 discovering what God can do with a nobody.— D. L. Moody
In times of adversity believers comfort themselves with the solace that they suffer nothing except by God's ordinance and command. - John Calvin
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