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These Christian Quotes come from:MARTIN ANGELLand were mailed to:sepschool@sepschool.orgThey are on this page for your interest only. I haven't decided yet whether they are personally relevant. |
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"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political
prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable
supports..Let us with caution indulge the supposition that
morality can be maintained without religion...Reason and
experience both forbid us to expect that National morality
can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." --George Washington |
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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." --Patrick Henry |
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"The Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis and the
source of all genuine freedom in government....I am
persuaded that no civil government of a republican form can
exist and be durable, in which the principles of
Christianity have not a controlling influence." --James Madison |
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"He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles
of Christianity will change the face of the world."
--Benjamin Franklin |
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"I am much afraid that the schools and universities will
prove to be the great gates to hell unless they diligently
labour to explain the Holy Scriptures and engrave them upon
the hearts of youth. I advise no one to send their child
where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every
institution that does not unceasingly occupy its students
with the Word of God must become corrupt." --Martin Luther, Protestant Reformation |
| "the philosophy in the classroom of this generation is the philosophy of government in the next." --Abraham Lincoln |
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"We have staked the future of American civilization upon the
capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according
to the Ten Commandments of God." --James Madison |
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"We have no government armed with power capable of
contending with human passions unbridled by morality and
religion...Our Constitution was made only for a moral and
religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government
of any other." --John Adams |
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Consider the words of Noah Webster, a founding father who
helped ratify the constitution, lawyer, politician, and the one who penned the dictionary to give us consistency in
English:
"Education: The bringing up, as of a child; instruction;
formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series
of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten
the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners
and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their
future stations. To give children a good education in
manners, arts, science, is important; to give them a
religious education is indispensable; and an immense
responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect
these duties." "The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible." "The religion which has introduced civil liberty, is the religion of Christ and his apostles, which enjoins humility, piety, and benevolence; which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights. This is genuine Christianity, and to this we owe our free constitutions of government." "Every civil government is based upon some religion or philosophy of life. Education in a nation will propagate the religion of that nation. In America, the foundational religion was Christianity. And it was sown in the hearts of Americans through the home and private and public schools for centuries. Our liberty, growth, and prosperity was the result of a Biblical philosophy of life. Our continued freedom and success is dependent on our educating the youth of America in the principles of Christianity." "In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government, ought to be instructed." |
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"Education ought everywhere to be religious
education..Parentss are bound to employ instructors who
will educate their children religiously. To commit our
children to the care of irreligious persons is to commit
lambs to the superintendency of wolves." --Timothy Dwight, president of Yale University (1795-1817). His first move as president was to fire every professor who embraced the teaching of the French Revolution which espoused that morality can be attained without God. |
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"Why may not the Bible, and especially the New
Testament...be read and taught as divine revelation in the
school--its general precepts expounded...and its glorious
principles of morality inculcated? ...Where can the purest
principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly
as from the New Testament?" --Supreme Court decision in 1844 on why the schools must continue to teach the Bible |
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"The only means of establishing and perpetuating our
republican forms of government...is the universal education
of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of
the Bible." --Benjamin Rush, youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence |
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"The free public schools of America are outgrowths of the
parochial or pastoral schools of puritan New England, which
were established by our forefathers to prepare their
children for becoming useful members of society and the
church. Nurtured in the lap of the church, these schools
soon became so necessary to society at large that the church
reluctantly relinquished her claim upon the elementary
schools, and turned them over to the care of the
commonwealths, retaining for herself the higher institutions
of learning--the academies and colleges.
Whether this was wise or not it is not our purpose
to discuss, further than to remark that, if the study of the
Bible is to be excluded from all State schools, if the
inculation of the principles of Christianity is to have no
place in the daily programme, if the worship of God is to
form no part of the general exercises of these public
elementary schools, then the good of the State would be
better served by restoring all schools to church control." |
| The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HS) says teen use of illegal drugs has more than doubled since 1992. Preliminary results from a 1995 HHS study show that 10.9 percent of the 12 - 17 year olds surveyed said they had used drugs during the previous month, as compared to 5.3 percent in 1992. Other sources concur with HHS' disappointing find: the University of Michigan recently reported that almost half of high school seniors (48.4 percent) had tried illegal drugs, up from 40.7 percent in 1992. |
| Josh McDowell in his campaign called "Right from Wrong" finds that there is statistically little to no difference between churched and unchurched youth in terms of their beliefs and value systems. What is startling conclusion that calls into question much of the effectiveness of Sunday School programs today and whether the Church must do more. |
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"Education is the most powerful ally of Humanism, and every
American public school is a school of Humanism. What can
the theistic Sunday Schools, meeting for an hour once a
week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to
stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?"
--Charles Francis Potter, a leading Humanist, in his book, Humanism: A New Religion. |
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