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4/28/2019 ~ Presidential Quotes 21


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Darkness has a mysterious absence of all.
Chiming throughout the ages is the cry for love.

28. Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)

“Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.”

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”

“Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.”

In God I have put my trust; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
~ Psalms 56:11


“It does not become America that within her borders,
where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience,
men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that
is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.”

... note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to
the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them. ... ~ Romans 16:17-18


“War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.”

“It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the
most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in
the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight
for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.”

“Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there
any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in
the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?”

... who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish
and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction ... ~ 1st Timothy 6:9-10


“We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own
forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There
are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much
excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose.
We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and
do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves.”

"By your patience possess your souls." ~ Luke 21:19

“For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad
thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing
and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more
dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.”

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light,
and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, ... ~ Isaiah 5:20


“Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president
of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal
or mortals could have prevented this.”

Let every soul be subject ... For there is no authority except from God,
and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. ~ Romans 13:1


“The masters of the government of the United States are
the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.”

“Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.”

“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.
A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system
of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our
activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the
worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated
Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by
free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote
of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress
of a small group of dominant men.”

"How can you say, 'We are wise, And the law of the LORD is with us'? Look,
the false pen of the scribe certainly works falsehood." ~ Jeremiah 8:8


“A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own,
have rendered the great government of the United States
helpless and contemptible.”

“There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience
of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as
well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals.
That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search
of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.”

"Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads
to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. ... ~ Matthew 7:13-15


“The way to stop financial joyriding is to
arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.”

“Government ought to be all outside and no inside. ... Everybody knows
that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and
we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.”

“The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis.
It is living in the open.”

“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come
from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history
of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation
of governmental power, not the increase of it.”

“I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than
to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.”

... do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but
through love serve one another. ~ Galatians 5:13


“The truth is we are all caught in a great
economic system which is heartless.”

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America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision,
to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

“My urgent advice to you would be, not only always to think first of
America, but always, also, to think first of humanity. You do not love
humanity if you seek to divide humanity into jealous camps. Humanity can
be welded together only by love, by sympathy, by justice, not by jealousy
and hatred. I am sorry for the man who seeks to make personal capital
out of the passions of his fellowmen. He has lost touch with the ideal
of America. For America was created to unite mankind.”

Citizens love of country establishes unity
GODLY UNGODLY

Think first of America
Think first of Humanity
Welded by Love
By Sympathy
By Justice


Not love humanity
Divide Humanity
Jealous Camps
By Jealousy and hatred
Lost touch with the ideal


For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion
and every evil thing are there. ~ James 3:16


“A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know
what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing
if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.”

"... show yourselves men; Recall to mind, O you transgressors.
Remember the former things of old, For I am God, ..." ~ Isaiah 46:8-9


All hearts ache to know
Recall to mind = Wisdom

“America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our
greatness is built upon our freedom - is moral, not material. We have a
great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.”

“You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of
allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless it be God. Certainly
not of allegiance to those who temporarily represent this great
government. You have taken an oath of allegiance to a great ideal,
to a great body of principles, to a great hope of the human race.”

But Peter and the other apostles answered and said:
"We ought to obey God rather than men." ~ Acts 5:29


“America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that
devotion to the elements of righteousness, which are derived from Holy
Scripture. Ladies and gentlemen, I have a very simple thing to ask of you.
I ask 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. (The Bible) That if they would
see America free and pure they will make their own spirits free
and pure by the baptism of Holy Scripture.”

... received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures
daily to find out whether these things were so. ~ Acts 17:11


“If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take
the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms
upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.”

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

... since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own
steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; ... ~ 2nd Peter 3:17


“There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life.
That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels
that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that
are difficult to stand against.”

“The seed of revolution is repression.”

“Business underlies everything in our national life,
including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer,
the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God
or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.”

“Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and
all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.”

“The fewer the desires, the more peace.”

Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come
from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? ~ James 4:1


“This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between
equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.”

“It must be a peace without victory ... Victory would mean peace
forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished.
It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable
sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory
upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only
as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last.”

“The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive
materially unless it be redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by
becoming permeated with the Spirit of Christ, and being made free and
happy by practices which spring out of that spirit. Only thus can discontent
be driven out and all shadows lifted from the road ahead. ”

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching
us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly,
righteously, and godly in the present age, ... ~ Titus 2:11-14


“A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.”

“You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest,
most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence,
my admiration for you, you have increased in one evening as I should
have thought only a lifetime of intimate, loving association could have
increased them. You are more wonderful and lovely in my eyes than
you ever were before; and my pride and joy and gratitude that you
should love me with such a perfect love are beyond all expression,
except in some great poem which I cannot write.”

... perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But
he who fears has not been made perfect in love. ~ 1st John 4:18


“I firmly believe in Divine Providence. Without belief in Providence I think I
should go crazy. Without God the world would be a maze without a clue.”


To find assurance fears must be buried below the vision of hilltops.
In this glory He holds souls above the mundane. Mean spirited souls
may cause temporary sorrows yet the call from above has an eternal
anchor. The times carry woeful weariness for the loveless lacking
mercy among the nations that pierces the peace between all men.


Devotion to God improves all social order
Friendship is what holds peoples together
With God there is no fear of what man can do
War among men is not declared by God, but by men
Ignorance of God deepens the persistence of sin
Only individuals by themselves can find God
Darkness hides in the halls of men’s perceived power
Freedom is held in bondage by the greedy
Forgetting original ideals leaves no good foundation
Allegiance should be to God over man
Sympathy for sinners can lead to sin’s acceptance
The fewer the desires, the more peace
Without God the shadows of man bring destruction
Love cannot find extent of expression in its’ pure gift

Torturous conditions carry us
in the land of His mercy.

Darkness comes from an endless lone zone.




 

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