There are two “cities” in which men on earth may live. They must in fact live in one or the other. —Roderick Campbell, Israel and the New Covenant (1954) By night and alone Nehemiah surveyed the broken walls of Jerusalem. He saw that his task was...
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know/What I was walling in or walling out . . . —Robert Frost, “Mending Wall” (1914) One mark of a free society is that strangers can flourish economically. —Gary North, Inheritance and Dominion (1999) The Nature...
Ora et labora. —a Benedictine proverb No, my friend, there is no contradiction between the sovereign decrees of God and fervent, believing prayer. —John Reisinger, The Sovereignty of God and Prayer (2002) The Moment Of Crisis It was a calculated...
Ezra was a model reformer in that what he taught he had first lived, and what he lived he had first made sure of in the Scriptures. —Derek Kidner, Ezra & Nehemiah (1979) “Come, the New Jerusalem!” The true story of freedom is the history of...
With an economy of words, the story-teller transports his listeners to a fabulous oriental world, and to a time when the Persian Empire was still young. —Joyce Baldwin, Esther (1984) Prelude to Genocide The king of Persian declared a sixth month...
In a unique way Zechariah is one of the most important books in the Old Testament. —Charlie Brown, Peanuts (1994) All areas of life will be consecrated to the Lord: even the horses’ bells will contain the inscription written on the High Priest’s...
The clouds ye so much dread / Are big with mercy. . . —William Cowper, “God Moves in a Mysterious Way” (1774) Men are always prone to put religion off with scraps and leavings, and serve God with what costs them nothing. —T. V. Moore, Commentary...
My position is this—I repeat it—I will maintain it to my last hour, —taxation and representation are inseparable. —Lord Camden, speech in Parliament (1767) The covenant idea is nothing but the expression of the representative principle...
But at this seat of government there must be a fitting memorial to the God who made us all. . . . It should be a center of prayer, open to all men of all faiths at all times. —President Lyndon B. Johnson, Presidential Prayer Breakfast (1964)...
The Restoration was actually a far more glorious time than ever before, in terms of spiritual power, though not in terms of outward glory and splendor. —James Jordan, Through New Eyes (1988) Cyrus took the prophecy of Isaiah to heart and so...
Covenant was to be a lasting theme in Scottish Reformation and its aftermath, one in which they would go far beyond Calvin. —Douglas Kelly, The Emergence of Liberty in the Modern World (1992) Scotland became Europe’s first modern literate...
A long time ago in Ireland there lived a man named Columba who loved books. —Jean Fritz, The Man Who Loved Books (1981) My son, I tell thee soothfastlie;/ No gift is like libertie;/ Then never live in slaverie. —a translated precept from...
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