Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Quotes of the Week

Understanding the difference between the Abrahamic Covenant, which is unconditional and illustrates our salvation, and the Mosaic Covenant, which is conditional and deals with our worship, is the starting place for understanding our dual responsibilities toward God (salvation) and man (worship). - Marshall Wicks

The Mosaic Covenant was intended as the vehicle through which the Jewish people would experience the riches of God's blessings. Never intended to be the means of their salvation, it was designed to be the guide for their stewardship as children and subjects of the Most High God, so that He might bless them. - Richard D. Emmons

Making excuses means you want to do what you want instead of doing what God told you to do. - Josh McDowell

America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scripture. - Woodrow Wilson

It was for the love of the truths of this great Book [the Bible] that our fathers abandoned their native shores for the wilderness. Animated by its lofty principles they toiled and suffered till the desert blossomed as the rose. The same truths sustained them in their resolutions to become a free nation; and guided by the wisdom of this Book they founded a government under which we have grown from three millions to more than twenty millions of people, and from being but a stock on the borders of this Continent we have spread from the Atlantic to the Pacific. - Zachary Taylor

There must be a book, and that Book is the Bible. I have never met any situation yet for which it has not had the answer. - Lee Roberson

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