Quote Archives

  • "Free government is founded in jealousy, not confidence. It is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind those we are obliged to trust with power.... In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."

    - Thomas Jefferson

  • "The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first."

    - Thomas Jefferson

  • "The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."

    - Patrick Henry

  • "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

    - Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • "Perhaps believers in general have regarded intercession as just some form of rather intensified prayer. It is, so long as there is great emphasis o the word 'intensified'; for there are three things to be seen in an intercessor which are not necessarily found in ordinary prayer: identification, agony and authority."

    - Norman Grubb, Rees Howells Intercessor

  • "We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience. It was an army that would move but not maul. It was an army that would sing but not slay. It was an army that would flank but not falter. It was an army to storm bastions of hatred, to lay siege to the fortresses of segregation, to surround symbols of discrimination. It was an army whose allegiance was to God and whose strategy and intelligence were the eloquently simple dictates of conscience."

    - Martin Luther King, Jr

  • "To be sure, dreamers need to share their dreams. A dream received seems to ache for expression."

    - Mark Rutland

  • "Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

    - Martin Luther King Jr.

  • "We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job."

    - Sir Winston Churchill

  • "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

    - Thomas Jefferson

  • "Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

    - Sir Winston Churchill

  • "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts."

    - Abraham Lincoln

  • "All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

    - Sir Winston Churchill

  • "Our Lord God could not but hear me; I threw the sack down before his door. I rubbed God's ear with all his promises about hearing prayer."

    - Martin Luther

  • "The State of Israel faces an attack of international hypocrisy…it is our right and obligation to prevent arms from reaching Gaza. This was not a “Love Boat” it was a hate boat."

    - Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu

  • "Intercession is spiritual defiance of what is, in the name of what God has promised."

    - Walter Wink

  • "Consciously or unconsciously, one lives not only one's life, but the life of one's time...Are our dreams, for example, to some degree facets of a larger, mass dream that is beginning to happen in the world? And if so, what is this mass dream telling us? To put it another way, when God wants to initiate a new movement in history, God does not intervene directly, but sends us dreams and visions that can, if attended to, initiate the process."

    - Walter Wink

  • Some writers have mistakenly assumed that true faith is an enemy to patriotism. If patriotism is defined in such a way that it is really nationalism-that is, the use of all available power and resources to impose the will of one nation on another-then surely authentic faith is the enemy. But if patriotism is a love for one's country and the desire to see justice, peace and good will toward all men prevail, then faith is not the enemy but the best friend of such patriotism.

    - William Wilberforce

  • "Some writers have mistakenly assumed that true faith is an enemy to patiotism. If patriotism is defined in such a way that it is really nationalism-that is, the use of all available power and resources to impose the will of one nation on another-then surely authentic faith is the enemy. But if patriotism is a love for one's country and the desire to see justice, peace and good will toward all men prevail, then faith is not the enemy but the best friend of such patriotism."

    - William Wilberforce

  • "So we come to one of the crying evils of these times, maybe of all times–little or no praying. Of these two evils, perhaps little praying is worse than no praying. Little praying is a kind of make-believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce, and a delusion."

    - E.M. Bounds

  • "No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack."

    - E.M. Bounds

  • "Our seasons of fasting and prayer at the tabernacle have been high days indeed; never has heaven's gate stood wider; never have our hearts been nearer the central glory."

    - Charles Spurgeon

  • "Prayer to God is the noblest exercise, the loftiest effort of man, the most real thing!"

    - E.M. Bounds