March 3, 1997

"I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect. For, after all, they could be my people."

-- James A. Michener

March 4, 1997

"It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are held accountable.

-- Moliere *

March 5, 1997

"If any man stands before God, he'd better have a good lawyer."

-- Peter Marshall

March 6, 1997

"We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness."

-- Bern Williams

March 8, 1997

"Justification by faith alone! This is that doctrine which broke the shackles from the soul of Martin Luther and set him free, exulting in God and glorifying in the mercy of Jesus Christ."

-- D. James Kennedy

March 9, 1997

"I'd like to challenge you with one closing question: If your parents died tomorrow, would you have any regrets?"

-- Adapted from The Tribute, by Dennis Rainey with David Boehi, Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1994.

March 10, 1997

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."

-- Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back

March 11, 1997

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

-- Helen Keller *

March 14, 1997

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."

-- Robert Orben

March 23, 1997

"The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words."

-- David Macintosh

March 29,1997

"I've been on a diet for two weeks, and all I've lost is two weeks."

-- Totie Fields

May 31, 1997

"My children are the chalkboard upon which God is teaching me the servanthood of Christ."

-- Kate Worley, HomeLife Magazine (May 1997), "In Pursuit of Ordinary Greatness,", p. 13

June 20, 1997

"The fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. I don't think we emphasize that enough these days. If we don't have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State !"

-- President Harry S Truman (1884-1972), 33rd President of the U.S.A.

July 24, 1997

In 1832, Noah Webster published his "History of the United States", in which he wrote:

"The brief exposition of the constitution of the United States, will unfold to young persons the principles of republican government; and it is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the Bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.

August 19, 1997

"Had the people, during the Revolution, had a suspicion of any attempt to war against Christianity, that Revolution would have been strangled in its cradle. At the time of the adoption of the Constitution and the amendments, the universal sentiment was that Christianity should be encouraged, not any one sect...In this age there can be no substitute for Christianity: that, in its general principles, is the great conservative element on which we must rely for the purity and permanence of free institutions."

--House Judiciary Committee, 1854

August 23, 1997

"To see God in everything makes life the greatest adventure of all."

(Excerpt from "Life's Little Book of Virtues")

August 31, 1997

"Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor."

-- J.D. Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961)
An American journalist who had formerly been a Communist agent, but recanted and defected to the West.

May 12, 1998

"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much."

-- Jackie Kennedy Onassis

June 16, 1998

""The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man therefore who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that book may be accessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer."

-- Noah Webster (1758-1843)

Statesman, educator, lexicographer and the author of Webster's Dictionary. Known as the "Schoolmaster of the Nation," and largely responsible for Article 1, Sec. 8 of the U.S. Constitution.

June 17, 1998

"A man's best fortune or his worst is his wife."

March 26, 1999

"Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat, and taking the tartar sauce with you."

-- Zig Zigler

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* Special thanks to The University of Virginia and La page Moliere for the sketch of Moliere.

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