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“The public school bureaucracy, which is now the largest in the history of the world, has been 'vaccinating' the vast majority of America's youth for several generations against what it considers to be 'the infectious disease of absolute moral values,' our Christian heritage, and our Christian republic which was built upon these truths.”
― Marshall Foster, The American Covenant: The Untold Story

“There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior.”
― Greg L. Bahnsen, Presuppositional Apologetics: Stated and Defended

“Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.”
― Ravi Zacharias

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“Unless you see yourself standing there with the shrieking crowd, full of hostility and hatred for the holy and innocent Lamb of God, you don’t really understand the nature and depth of your sin or the necessity of the cross.”
― C.J. Mahaney, Living the Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing

“Reminding ourselves of the gospel is the most important daily habit we can establish.”
― C.J. Mahaney, The Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel The Main Thing

“The entire life and work of Jesus is one great argument why we should listen to his word. Page after page of the New Testament Gospels pile up reasons to turn off the television and listen to Jesus.”
― John Piper, What Jesus Demands from the World

“Belief in Jesus does not come by the waving of a magic wand. It comes by hearing the word of God through Jesus.”
― John Piper, What Jesus Demands from the World

“Children listen best with their eyes. What you do is what they hear.”
― Richard Carlson, The Don't Sweat Guide for Dads: Stopping Stress from Getting in the Way of What Really Matters

“Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.”
― Douglas Wilson

“Jesus came into the world with good news, not bad news. He does not call us to a willpower religion that feels only duty and no delight. He calls us to himself and to his Father. Therefore, he calls us to joy. Of course, it is not joy in things. Jesus is not preaching a health, wealth, and prosperity gospel—one of America’s most lamentable exports to the world. It is joy in God and in his Son.”
― John Piper, What Jesus Demands from the World

“We should waken to the truth that it is a treacherous sin not to pursue our fullest satisfaction in God.”
― John Piper, What Jesus Demands from the World

“From Lee’s extensive quotes of Edwards on page 152 we can gather that the reason some reject good thoughts that might order their minds aright is because of a disposition of the heart, or a “taste” for evil. The habit of a person’s mind is in accordance with his spiritual appetite, a good man’s mind will always suggest and supply good and holy thoughts to connect ideas and information to create a beautiful picture in one’s mind of God’s orderly universe (Himself at the helm) but the evil man’s mind is habitually disorganizing the things of this world or rather dis-integrating them from the knowledge of God, and so Edwards might say that his mind is not a cosmos but a chaos, or a conductor-less cacophony rather than a grand symphony.”
― Erick John Blore, The Educational Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards: An Analysis and Application of His Calvinistic Psychology

“Do not think, because you experience adversity, that the hand of the Lord is shortened. It is not our prosperity but our holiness that he seeks with all his heart. And to that end, he rules the whole world...He is a big God for little people, and we have great cause to rejoice that, unbeknownst to them, all the kings and presidents and premiers and chancellors of the world follow the sovereign decrees of our Father in heaven, that we, the children, might be conformed to the image of his Son, Jesus Christ.”
― John Piper, What Jesus Demands from the World

“If [God] has work for me to do, I cannot die.”
― Henry Martyn, Journal And Letters Of Henry Martyn

“The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.”
― John Calvin

“The magnifying of Christ in the white-hot worship of all nations is the reason the world exists.”
― John Piper, Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

“The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed law of God… then what will it be? In some form or expression it will have to be the law of man (or men) - the standard of self-law or autonomy. And when autonomous laws come to govern a commonwealth, the sword is certainly wielded in vain, for it represents simply the brute force of some men’s will against the will of other men.”
― Greg Bahnsen

“In light of our current crisis, nothing could be more spiritual than saving our children from humanism, our economy from deprivation, and our liberty from extinction.”
― Marshall Foster, The American Covenant: The Untold Story

“There is no neutral (or secular) area of life. When we set up an area or institution not acknowledging God's sovereignty we become an enemy of God and are in rebellion. The public school system in America is a good example. It is not neutral religiously. It has simply exchanged the Christian religion for that of humanism.”
― Marshall Foster, The American Covenant: The Untold Story

“A pluralistic society is just another term for a Christian nation that is on its way to becoming a humanistic society devoted to war with the Gospel.”
― Marshall Foster, The American Covenant: The Untold Story

“As goes the family, so goes the faith; as goes the faith, so goes the culture.”
― Kenneth L. Gentry Jr., The Greatness of the Great Commission: The Christian Enterprise in a Fallen World

“Some decry the law as an imposition of religion. But all law imposes religion in that law is necessarily religious, for all law is an expression of morality.”
― Kenneth L. Gentry Jr., God's Law Made Easy

“We must recall that the new covenant does not bring with it a new Law, but rather the power to keep the same Law.”
― Kenneth L. Gentry Jr., God's Law Made Easy

“All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.”
― William Bradford

“Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many...”
― William Bradford, Bradford: Of Plymouth Plantation

“Nevertheless, to keep a good conscience, and walk in such a way as God has prescribed in his word, is a thing which I must prefer before you all, and above life itself.”
― William Bradford

“Good government—Biblical government—cannot be forced from without, but rises from within the hearts of a people.”
― Marshall Foster, The American Covenant: The Untold Story

“If an historically disastrous scheme [socialism] can gain such influence, what will be the impact when millions of Americans reaffirm the American Covenant 'to the glory of God and the advancement of the Christian faith'?”
― Marshall Foster, The American Covenant: The Untold Story

“God's critical path for the rebuilding of our nation begins with the self-governing Christian. A godly nation is not simply prayed for and received. It is built 'line upon line, precept upon precept' (Is. 28:10). The self-governing Christian is God's building-block for a Christian nation.”
― Marshall Foster, The American Covenant: The Untold Story