Where are Christian leaders who are not ashamed of God? Our Founding Fathers and those who succeeded them were not perfect, but they were also not ashamed of their faith nor were they intimidated by what others thought of their beliefs.
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."
George Washington
"The destiny of America is to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to all men everywhere."
John Adams
"Without the assistance of God, I cannot succeed. With His assistance, I cannot fail."
Abraham Lincoln
When will we hear American leaders speak that way again???
I do not know if we will. Those are great quotes with great meaning. Even so come Lord Jesus.
ReplyDeleteA few more.
ReplyDeleteTheodore Roosevelt,
“To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible."
Woodrow Wilson,
"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 Scriptures. Ladies and gentlemen, I have a very simple thing to ask of you. I as of every man and woman in this audience that from this night on they will realize that part of the destiny of America lies in their daily perusal of this great book of revelations. That if they would see America free and pure they will make their own spirits free and pure by this baptism of the Holy Scripture."
“I have a very simple thing to ask of you. I ask every man and woman in this audience that from this day on they will realize that part of the destiny of America lies in their daily perusal of this great Book (the Bible)."
Herbert Hoover,
"The study of the Bible is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience." President Herbert Hoover
Harry Truman,
"The fundamental basis of this nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teaching we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. I don't think we emphasize that enough these days. If we don't have the proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in the right for anybody except the state.
President Bush quotes
ReplyDelete"I fully understand that the job of the president is and must always be protecting the great right of people to worship or not worship as they see fit. That's what distinguishes us from the Taliban. The greatest freedom we have or one of the greatest freedoms is the right to worship the way you see fit.
"On the other hand, I don't see how you can be president at least from my perspective, how you can be president, without a relationship with the Lord."
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"What we are going to do in the second term is to make sure that the grant money is available for faith communities to bid on, to make sure these faith-based offices are staffed and open. But the key thing is, is that we do have the capacity to allow faith programs to access enormous sums of social service money, which I think is important."
--George W. Bush, January 11, 2005
"I feel like God wants me to run for President. I can't explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen... I know it won't be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it."
--George W. Bush commenting to Texas evangelist James Robinson in the run-up to his presidential campaign
Bill Clinton and President Obama have also nice quotes. I don't know that we can go by quotes. I think American's greatest quality has been and still is freedom to worship. It was in the beginning this way, and still is. I pray and hope our leaders will be saved, but their quotes are the same as those before them. Do we dare believe those before were any more or less saved?
I certainly was not implying that "the quote makes the man." I'm sure Hitler had some nice quotes, too.
ReplyDeleteI do feel that today's leaders are so scrutinized and criticized by the press and mass media that they feel they have to have multiple speech writers and advisors just to be politically correct...they seldom speak from the heart.
Quotes are often a reflection of a man's heart.
I can't say whether more early Presidents were saved or not, but I do know they talked more freely about God and the Bible, whereas many of our modern President's quotes about God are from the "National Prayer Breakfast" or from a speech before religious leaders or in a church somewhere (where it is expected).
Our current President demanded three different prayers be prayed at his inaugeration ceremonies: one Chirstian, one Jewish, one Muslim. That concerns me (among other things).
In the spiritual state our country is in today, I'm not sure that an open, professing Christian with rock solid Bible convictions could stand a chance of being elected today.
Another concern. The weird word I had to type in to post this time was "devill." Is Obama or the NSA reading my blog???
ReplyDeleteWe may here quotes that sound good. The problem is the men don't live their quotes today like they used to.
ReplyDeleteToday politicians say things to please every one and there are millions of voters that claim to be Christians.
If the Americans that Claimed to be Christians were true Bible believing, God fearing Christians, then the leaders of our nation would live their quotes because Christians would put better leaders in office.
Amen BroT...
ReplyDeleteMike Huckabee is a unique case. He was a Southern Baptist preacher and decided to run for office in Arkansas. He believed he could still continue to preach at various locations WHILE holding office. He stated in his book that he thought Christians would be supportive of a fellow Bible-believing Christian running for office. Instead, he states he lost many friends who didn't want him to go into "dirty politics." He was also accused of abandoning his call to the ministry.
Should a preacher never even consider running for office?
I have some terrible Presidential quotes - Nixon (I am not a crook) and Clinton (I did not have sexual relations with that woman). There is a great void in godly leaders who will stand up for Bible convictions.
ReplyDeleteI read an interesting book about how Clinton's Clergy failed him - did not warn him about sin.
ReplyDeleteUn-inspiring presidential quotes:
ReplyDelete"As you know, my position is clear. I'm the Commander guy." W
"I've now been in 57 states---I think one left to go." Obama in Oregon
"I'm someone who had a deep emotional attachment to Starsky and Hutch." Bill Clinton
Rarely is the question asked: "Is our children learning? W
The question is out there...Should a preacher never even consider running for office
(ex. Mike Huckabee)?
Any office or president?
ReplyDeleteAn office of town council could be a benifit the town and the preacher's ministery.
You have set the new glass ceiling for president.
Huckabee did it as govenor.
I hope some day this repressed preacher will be able to see the day that America elects a preacher to the presidency.
I don't think an active pastor could or should hold the office of president. Now a former pastor that believes God wants him to run for president, he's got my vote!
Amen Big J!!!
ReplyDeleteI don't think an ABA preacher can run for any office, because we don't have the funds to run any kind of a campaign, and usually we don't live in a place long enough to say we have that city's interests at heart and can be trusted.
ReplyDeleteSurely you're not saying, snide one, that ABA preachers are:
ReplyDelete1)poor
2)unstable
3)untrustworthy
:)
You know that if any of us were to run for public office, they would be scrutinizing our blogs. On that note, maybe I should sneak into the previous church I pastored and destroy all of those sermon tapes. Who knows what I said back in 1997???
A preacher (not pastor) can run for any office, but when people disagree with him on issues, his ministry and testimony is surely compromised. Strong Christians would likely be good public servants for awhile, until the lies, trade-offs, influence, pressures, truth-twisting would become too frustrating.