Daily Dose

Romans 15:7

Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.

George Washington

“We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our won Country’s Honor, all call upon us for vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions.”

Obama’s Promises

Ephesians 4:29

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

John Quincy Adams

“[America’s] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice.”

And The Award Goes To: The Moderates

Philippians 2:3-4

3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

James Madison

“How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation?”

Operation No Boots?

Ephesians 5:1

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children.

The Constitution

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Not Inept?

James 3:13

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

Alexander Hamilton

“War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.”

ISIS a Regional Threat?

1 John 4:16

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

Ronald Reagan

“Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.”

Destroy ‘Em

Philippians 4:4

Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.

John Witherspoon

“Is it reasonable to expect wisdom from the ignorant? Fidelity from the profligate? Assiduity and application to public business from men of a dissipated life? Is it reasonable to commit the management of public revenue to one who has wasted his own patrimony? Those, therefore, who pay no regard to religion and sobriety in the persons whom they send to the legislature of any State are guilty of the greatest absurdity and will soon pay dear for their folly.”

The Islamic State is Not Islamic

Psalm 121:1-2

1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

2 My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.

Ronald Reagan

“America’s best days lie ahead. You ain’t seen nothing yet.”

Remember

Titus 2:2

That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

George Washington

“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.”

Political Theater

Psalm 143:10

Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

James Madison

“It will not be denied that power is of encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.”

Our Own Backyard