"So help me God."
- George Washington


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"It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God ..."
- George Washington

"... acknowledge the providence of Almighty God ..."
- George Washington
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"I have called on Thee for pardon and forgiveness of my sins."
- George Washington


"Thou gavest Thy Son to die for me.”
- George Washington


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"My iniquities are multiplied and my sins are very great. I confess them, O Lord ..."
- George Washington

"My iniquities are multiplied and my sins are very great."
- George Washington

Sins - "I confess them, O Lord ..."
- George Washington
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"... acknowledge our many and great obligations to Almighty God ..."
- George Washington


Schools -
"What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ."
- George Washington


"To the character of hero and patriot, this good man added that of Christian."
- George Washington


Government -
"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible."
- George Washington


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"Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God."
- George Washington

"... the rest is in the hands of God."
- George Washington
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"... we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion."
- George Washington


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Mother  - 
"I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."
- George Washington

Mother -
"I attribute all my success in life..."
- George Washington
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"... the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction."
- George Washington


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"... our grateful acknowledgment to God for the manifold blessings he has granted us ..."
- George Washington

"... acknowledgment to God for the manifold blessings ..."
- George Washington
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"... render thanks to Almighty God for his mercies ..."
- George Washington

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"... commending the Interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God ..."
- George Washington

"... our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God ..."
- George Washington
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“... that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becoming a Christian soldier, defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.”
- General George Washington, 1776

“... endeavor to live and act as becoming a Christian soldier...”
- General George Washington, 1776
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"The god who gave us life, gave us liberty."
- Thomas Jefferson


"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
- Thomas Jefferson


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"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."
- Thomas Jefferson

"... I reflect that God is just."
- Thomas Jefferson

"... I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever."
- Thomas Jefferson
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"... I have sworn upon the altar of god..."
- Thomas Jefferson


"He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be..."
- Thomas Jefferson


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"I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus."
- Thomas Jefferson

"I am a real Christian..."
- Thomas Jefferson
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"Almighty God hath created the mind free..."
- Thomas Jefferson


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“The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.”
- Thomas Jefferson

“The doctrines of Jesus ... tend to all the happiness of man.”
- Thomas Jefferson
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"I have sworn on the altar of God ..."
- Thomas Jefferson

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“ God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?"
- Benjamin Franklin

“ God governs in the affairs of man."
- Benjamin Franklin

“... if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, . . . an empire can rise without His aid?
- Benjamin Franklin
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"Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered…"
- Benjamin Franklin


"... with the blessing of God, so well succeeded ..."
- Benjamin Franklin


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"And now I speak of thanking God ..."
- Benjamin Franklin

"... I speak of thanking God ..."
- Benjamin Franklin
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"The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did."
- Benjamin Franklin


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"Him only in whose power it is to bless to us even our afflictions..."
- Benjamin Franklin

"... bless to us even our afflictions..."
- Benjamin Franklin
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"The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see."
- Benjamin Franklin

"... religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted ... is the best the world has ever seen..."
- Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin University
"a nursery of religion and learning, built on Christ, the Cornerstone."
- Benjamin Franklin

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"As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation."
- John Adams


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"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people."
- John Adams

"Our Constitution was ... for a moral and religious people."
- John Adams
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"... His blessing upon this nation and its Government..."
- John Adams


"And may that Being that is supreme over all... continue His blessing upon this nation..."
- John Adams


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"Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell."
- John Adams

"Without religion this world would be ... Hell."
- John Adams
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"... all possible success and duration consistent with the ends of His providence."
- John Adams

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Samuel Adams

"Our forefathers opened the Bible to all.”
- Samuel Adams


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“ He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all."
- Samuel Adams

“ He who made man made truths of human happiness obvious."
- Samuel Adams, paraphrased by RWHancock   ( quote - Adams)
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"... importance of educating their little boys and girls, inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity..."
- Samuel Adams

"... Impress the importance of educating children in the fear and love of the Deity..."
- Samuel Adams, paraphrased by RWHancock   ( quote - Adams)
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"and leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system.”
- Samuel Adams

"Lead children in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of Christianity.”
- Samuel Adams, paraphrased by RWHancock   ( quote - Adams)
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John Hancock

“In circumstances as dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians..."
- John Hancock


"... reposed only on that God rules in the armies of Heaven..."
- John Hancock


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"... without His whole blessing, the best human counsels are but foolishness..."
- John Hancock

"Without God, the best human counsels are foolish."
- John Hancock, paraphrased by RWHancock (quote - Hancock)
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"Resolved; …to humble themselves before God under the heavy judgments felt and feared..."
- John Hancock

"Resolved; …to humble themselves before God..."
- John Hancock
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"...we desire to thank Almighty God..."
- John Hancock

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“ We’ve staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all of our heart.”
- James Madison

“ Our future depends on following the Ten Commandments.”
- James Madison, paraphrased by RWHancock (quote - Madison)
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"We’ve staked the future of all our political institutions upon our capacity…to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.”
- James Madison

"We’ve staked the future…to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.”
- James Madison

"We’ve staked the future to sustain America by the Ten Commandments.”
- James Madison, paraphrased by RWHancock (quote - Madison)
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Branches of U.S. Gov.  -
“For the LORD is our judge,
the LORD is our lawgiver,
the LORD is our king; (He will save us.)"   - Is. 33:22
- James Madison, reading of the Perfect Governor in Isaiah.

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James Mc Henry

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"Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures."
- James Mc Henry

"Public utility pleads ... general distribution of the Holy Scriptures."
- James Mc Henry
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"In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions. Bibles are strong entrenchments."
- James Mc Henry

"In vain, without the Bible, we ... draw entrenchments around our institutions."
- James Mc Henry

"Bibles are strong entrenchments."
- James Mc Henry
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"To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys..."
- Jedediah Morse

"To the influence of Christianity we owe civil freedom."
- Jedediah Morse, edited shorter by RWHancock. (quote - Morse)
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"Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all blessings which flow from them, must fall with them."
- Jedediah Morse

"Should Christianity fall, our government will also fall.
- Jedediah Morse, edited shorter by RWHancock. (quote - Morse)
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1000 + Original Sayings by the PoetPatriot

"... for all the principles of science are of divine origin."
- Thomas Paine


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"Instead of looking through the works of creation to the Creator himself, they stop short, and employ the knowledge they acquire to create doubts of his existence."
- Thomas Paine

"... through the works of creation to the Creator himself..."
- Thomas Paine
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"Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us."
- Thomas Paine

"Character is what God and the angels know of us."
- Thomas Paine
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1000 + Original Sayings by the PoetPatriot

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“ Be religiously careful in our choice of all public officers . . . and judge of the tree by its fruits.”
- Charles Boudinot

“ Be religiously careful  . . . and judge of the tree by its fruits.”
- Charles Boudinot
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"We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!"
- John Adams and John Hancock

"We have no sovereign but God. No King but Jesus!"
- John Adams and John Hancock, paraphrased by RWHancock (quote -Adams & Hancock)
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"To be like Christ is to be a Christian."
- Daniel Webster


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"Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart."
- Washington Irving

"Christmas is the season for kindling the . . . charity in the heart."
- Washington Irving

"Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality..."
- Washington Irving
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"To be like Christ is to be a Christian."
- Daniel Webster

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"Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits."
- Daniel Webster

"Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment."
- Daniel Webster

"Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle..."
- Daniel Webster

"... nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits."
- Daniel Webster
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"Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do."
- James Hudson Taylor


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“The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.”
- Alexander Hamilton

“The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion.”
- Alexander Hamilton, Condensed

“Christian Constitutional Society, is to support Christianity then our Constitution."
- Alexander Hamilton, paraphrased by RWHancock   ( quote - Hamilton)
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Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow."
- Theodore Epp


"Salvation is a work of God for man, rather than a work of man for God."
Lewis Sperry Chafer (1871-1952)


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"The Law and the Gospel are two keys. The Law is the key that shutteth up all men under condemnation, and the Gospel is the key which opens the door and lets them out."
- William Tyndale

"The Law and the Gospel are two keys."
- William Tyndale

"The Gospel is the key which opens the door and lets them out."
- William Tyndale
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"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?"
- Corrie Ten Boom


"No pit is so deep, that God's love is not deeper still."
- Corrie Ten Boom


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"Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well."
- Reformer Martin Luther

"Spare the rod and spoil the child - Give an apple when he has done well."
- Reformer Martin Luther, paraphrased by PoetPatriot.com
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1000 + Original Sayings by the PoetPatriot

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"Balancing the budget is like going to heaven. Everybody wants to do it. They just don’t want to do what you have to do to make the trip."
- Senator Phil Gramm


"True passion for Jesus is born out of anguish."
- David Wilkerson


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"Do you need help today? Lift up your hands to the Lord in supplication and in expectation, and soon you will lift up your hands in jubilation and celebration."
- Warren W. Wiersbe

"Lift up your hands in supplication and you will lift up your hands in jubilation."
- Warren W. Wiersbe, condensed.

"Lift up your hands to the Lord in expectation, and you will lift up your hands in celebration."
- Warren W. Wiersbe, condensed.
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"Unknown soldier, known to God"
- Grave marker

"When you were at your lowest, hardest times in life, when you only saw one set of footprints, that was when I carried you."
- Footprints poem


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"Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence."
- A.W. Tozer

"Order your religious activities to have time to cultivate the fruits of solitude."
- A.W. Tozer, condensed.
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" If absence makes the heart grow fonder, how some folks must love the Church! "
- Gerald I. Teague

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"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book."
- President Abraham Lincoln

"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man."
- President Abraham Lincoln
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"Our faith should be our steering wheel, not our spare tire."
 - C. L. Wheeler

Satan trembles when he sees, The weakest saint upon his knees.
- William Cowper (1731 - 1800)


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"The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts."
- John Jay - 1st Chief-Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

"The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God..."
- John Jay - condensed
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"How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?"
- Oscar Wilde


Who being loved is poor?
- Oscar Wilde


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"Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America’s basic text book in all fields. God’s Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct."
- Noah Webster (1758-1843) -- "The Schoolmaster of the Nation."

"Education is useless without the Bible."
- Noah Webster

"The Bible was America’s basic text book in all fields."
- Noah Webster

"God’s Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct."
- Noah Webster

"God’s Word has furnished all necessary rules."
- Noah Webster, condensed
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"Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants."
- William Penn (1644-1718), founder of Pennsylvania


"The entire plan for the future has its key in the resurrection."
- Billy Graham


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"He lives exalted at God's right hand, and He 'saves to the uttermost all who come to God by Him.'"
- H.A. Ironside

"He lives exalted at God's right hand..."
- H.A. Ironside
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"The Bible is the Only Book That Can Make Us Wise unto Salvation."
- George F. Pentecost

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"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship."
- Patrick Henry

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded. . . on the gospel of Jesus Christ."
- Patrick Henry
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"By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion... ."
- Samuel Chase, Chief Justice of the State of Maryland, 1799

“We are a Christian people, and the morality of the country is deeply engrafted upon Christianity.”
- US Supreme Court, 1892

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"We are a Christian people, according to one another the equal right of religious freedom and acknowledge with reverence the duty of obedience to the will of God."
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1931, U.S. v. McIntosh

"We are a Christian people, according to one another the equal right of religious freedom..."
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1931, U.S. v. McIntosh

"We are a Christian people..."
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1931, U.S. v. McIntosh

"... acknowledge with reverence the duty of obedience to the will of God."
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1931, U.S. v. McIntosh
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"It is also said, and truly that the Christian religion is a part of the common law... ."
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Story, 1844 Vidal v. Girard's Executors.

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"From the day of the Declaration...they were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledge as the rules of their conduct"
- President John Quincy Adams.

"From the day of the Declaration... they were bound by the laws of God... "
- President John Quincy Adams.
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"The great vital and conservative element in our system is the belief of our people in the pure doctrines and divine truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ."
- U.S. House of Congress, 1854, report of the Senate Judiciary committee then in a Joint Resolution.


" ...add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian Nation... "
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1890 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints v United States)


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"Whereas the Bible, the Word of God, has made a unique contribution in shaping the United States as a distinctive and blessed nation and people; ..."
- Joint Resolution of Congress declaring 1983 as the Year of the Bible.

"...deeply held religious convictions springing from the Holy scriptures led to the early settlement of our Nation; ..."
- Joint Resolution of Congress declaring 1983 as the Year of the Bible.

"...Biblical teachings inspired concepts of civil government that are contained in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States...."
- Joint Resolution of Congress declaring 1983 as the Year of the Bible.

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"....designate 1983 as a national 'Year of the Bible' in recognition of both the formative influence the Bible has been for our Nation, and our national need to study and apply the teachings of the Holy Scriptures."
- Joint Resolution of Congress declaring 1983 as the Year of the Bible.

"....designate 1983 as a national 'Year of the Bible' ..."
- Joint Resolution of Congress declaring 1983 as the Year of the Bible.

".... in recognition of both the formative influence the Bible has been for our Nation ... "
- Joint Resolution of Congress declaring 1983 as the Year of the Bible.

".... our national need to study and apply the teachings of the Holy Scriptures."
- Joint Resolution of Congress declaring 1983 as the Year of the Bible.
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"There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it hardly become us to talk about the rest of us."
- E.W. Koch


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