Tag Archives: Patriotism
America, a Sanctuary
The Reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety.
The Star Spangled Banner
America Needs God
America needs God more than God needs America. If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under.
Ronald Wilson Reagan, Aug. 23, 1984, Address at an ecumenical prayer breakfast in Dallas, TX
The Real Purpose of the First Amendment
To those who cite the First Amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and every-day life, may I just say: The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny.
Ronald Wilson Reagan, Mar. 15, 1982, Address to the Alabama State Legislature
The Envy of the World
It’s said that prayer can move mountains. Well, it’s certainly moved the hearts and minds of Americans in their times of trial and helped them to achieve a society that, for all its imperfections, is still the envy of the world and the last, best hope of mankind.
Ronald Wilson Reagan, Sep. 18, 1982, in a radio address to the nation
All We Can Do Is Remember
It is, in a way, an odd thing to honor those who died in defense of our country in wars far away. The imagination plays a trick. We see these soldiers in our mind as old and wise. We see them as something like the Founding Fathers, grave and gray-haired. But most of them were boys when they died, they gave up two lives — the one they were living and the one they would have lived. When they died, they gave up their chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers. They gave up their chance to be revered old men. They gave up everything for their county, for us. All we can do is remember.
Ronald Wilson Reagan, Remarks at Veteran’s Day ceremony, Arlington National Cemetery Arlington, Virginia, November 11, 1985
Worship & Politics: Salt and Light
Believers are commanded to be the salt and the light to this world. The political arena in America has never been so tasteless and dark as we see it today. It is time to gather the shakers and beacons from the church pantry and do what we are told [in God’s Word].
Voting Is Worship
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
John Quincy Adams (1767 – 1848)
A. W. Tozer on American Theology
All things else being equal, the destiny of a man or nation may safely be predicted from the idea of God which that man or nation holds. No nation can rise higher than its conception of God.
A. W. Tozer, The Set of the Sail, p. 38
Life Is Worship 