Go to the Scriptures…the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.

—Andrew Jackson

The choice before us is plain, Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as American citizens. The time is come, it now is, when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America’s future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God’s government.

—Peter Marshall

I have lived, Sir, a long time; and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this Truth, That God governs in the Affairs of Men! —And if a Sparrow cannot fall to the Grounds without His Notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without His Aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that “except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it.” I firmly believe this, —and I also believe that without His concurring Aid we shall succeed in this political Building no better than the Builders of Babel.

I am much afraid that schools will prove to be great gates of hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not increasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt.

—Martin Luther