"Prayer, it must be noted, does involve at times a confession of guilt and a supplication of pardon, but a routine and formal confession in all prayers reduces praying to a meaningless routine. Thanksgiving too is essential to prayer, but not mere...
Read MoreThe state, deriving all its powers from God, both rulers and subjects being bound to do God's will, and its chief magistrate being emphatically God's minister, ought to be, and in an impotant sense is, a religious institution.?????????Hiram Bingham, A R...
Read MoreThe ministry of religion and the ministry of the state each has its duties; but each in its own order and place, and both for the glory of the same Master, in accordance with the Divine will.?????????Hiram Bingham, A Residence of Twenty-One Years, pg. 278
Read MoreThis council [of regent, chiefs and missionaries] being conducted in a amicable and Christian manner, unlike the councils of heathenism and infidelity, bowed before the God of heaven and earth, acknowledging his smiles and rich gifts, and implorin...
Read More[C]onversion brings the subjects of it not only to worship God in truth, and to love his law, but makes those kind and liberal-hearted who were before naturally and habitually covetous, and enlists oppressors in the noble business of seeking the b...
Read MoreThe haughty [Hawaiian] queen bowed her knees before the King of heaven, and confessed her sins, and in impressive language poured forth her earnest prayer... The missionaries had been slow to give her credit for any interest at heart in the concer...
Read MoreThat uncivilized heathen nations should first be civilized, and then Christianized, is a sentiment of the past. Now it is coming more and more to be acknowledged, that the Bible is the great civilizer of the nations.?????????Stephen R. Riggs, Takoo Waka...
Read MoreAs belief of Christianity gained ground in the minds of the [Hawaiian] rulers, we were happy to see a corresponding desire to do what seemed to them proper to do, towards enlightening and reforming the people. When we urged them to undertake this,...
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You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.?????????II Peter 3:17 (ESV) My Thesis: Men must stand steadfast upon the Scriptures as the Law of God ...
Read MoreThe social consequences of debt include a covetous and inflationary society. When men spend prospective and still future earnings in the present, then, as the present passes, they are chained to their past spending by debt. Debt becomes a form of ...
Read MoreEvery academic pursuit and every thought must be related to Jesus Christ, for Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. (John 14:6) To avoid Christ in your thought at any point, then, is to be misled, untruthful, and spiritually dead.?????????Dr. Greg ...
Read MoreTruth alone, found in the Word of God alone, is supreme. If the church silences the Word of God and forbids her members to hear and heed the Word of God alone, then unity with such an institution...is unity with the anti-Word, the anti-Christ.?????????D...
Read MoreErrors abound...but they shall abound still the more if each man is left to his own opinions. Errors can never be uprooted from human hearts until true knowledge of God is planted therin.?????????Douglas Bond, The Betrayal, pg. 181
Read MoreBoldness for truth...is ever commendable.?????????Douglas Bond, The Betrayal, pg. 211
Read More[T]hat what a man hath honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.?????????John Adams, The True Sentiments of America, pg. 62
Read MoreOnly representatives who are themselves taxed will be sensible of the real burden that their taxation imposes upon the property of others.?????????Daniel Ford, Liberty and Property, pg. 158
Read MoreNothing expressed the sentiments?????????nothing shaped the sentiments?????????of eighteenth-century colonial Americans more than their preachers.... Americans certainly read newspapers for news, and kept track of the latest innovations in science, industry, ...
Read MoreTyranny is exercised, when men in power, without law, invade the liberties and properties of the subjects; and thereby oppress them.?????????Samuel Willard, A Complete Body of Divinity, pg. 650
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