"Obama is the best gun salesman we could find.”
-Scott Hornsby, store manager at Carolina Rod and Gun in Charleston, S.C., on how concerns about potential bans on weapons and bullets have sparked a massive increase in sales since President Obama's inauguration.
Excerpt from World Magazine: Read more here
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
“I am much afraid that schools will prove to be the great gates of hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth.” - Martin Luther
“... when the manners of a nation are pure, when true religion and internal principles maintain their vigor, the attempts of the most powerful enemies to oppress them are commonly baffled and disappointed. This will be found equally certain, whether we consider the great principles of God's moral government, or the operation and influence of natural causes.” - John Witherspoon, “The Dominion of Providence over the Passions of Men” 1776
“At that moment, he fell in love with her. He actually did, and could fix the time almost to a second. At a quarter past nine, he merely thought her a very charming young person; at twenty minutes past, he considered her the loveliest woman he ever beheld; at five and twenty minutes past, she was an angel singing his soul away; and at half after nine he was a lost man, floating over a delicious sea to that temporary heaven on earth where lovers usually land after the first rapturous plunge…”
-Louisa May Alcott
I had to laugh when I read this excerpt from the book “Rose in Bloom”. How often do we feel so perfectly enraptured by the sight of someone as Archie was toward the perfectly lovely and angelic Phebe? This book is wonderfully written and a pleasant getaway, but ladies, don’t expect to have men falling at your feet in perfect adoration. And guys, I have to break it to you… no woman is ever that beautiful and perfect in real life, though we sure can try.
Love at first sight? I’ll believe in it when I get to heaven.
“Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.”
- Bernard Baruch
Isn’t it amazing how little strength we have to do what’s right while in the midst of a crowd doing wrong? Deciding to do what is right in God’s eyes and sticking with our beliefs in a culture that encourages following the crowd is the ultimate test of our strength and character. It is a tremendous struggle to stand out so starkly in front of our friends, and yet better to be un-popular than a blockhead.
God give us the strength and conviction to follow You, despite those crowding around us!
"We may safely assert... that no civil rulers are to be obeyed when they enjoin things that are inconsistent with the commands of God. All commands running counter to the declared will of the supreme legislator of heaven and earth, are null and void; and therefore disobedience to them is a duty, not a crime. "
- Clergyman Jonathan Mayhew, 1750
No higher authority, not government or politics or any leaders on earth, can force us to do something that we feel is biblically questionable. Our first duty is to Christ, and therefore any actions, no matter how enforced, cannot become our ultimate goal, and we must be on our guard to recognize when is the time to disobey a law. Men are so far from perfection, that we cannot expect the laws leaders are constantly creating to be completely rational and reasonable.
Something to chew on...
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