To be counted……

As I was thinking about the past reactions to the voting and election results, it got me thinking about how we make choices and the privileges of being able to even have an influence of choice.  The saying: If we know and don’t act, it is the same as not knowing at all, is so true.  Webster says wisdom is the ability to look at each situation with discernment and good judgment.  What is even more important is using the knowledge we have and seeking out those who would wisely instruct us on information we don’t have.  As I watched the voting signs go up, the overwhelming feeling of deciding who to vote for; that would do the best job; and who was truly telling the truth became a job in itself.  The ads and radio commentaries of each view of candidates and issues seemed to contradict rather help make a ‘wise’ choice.   Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote:  Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.  To be honest I am glad this season is over.

 Now I am listening to the news commentators give their interpretations on past presidents and other founding fathers  their anti God/Christian view points, I would wonder what they would be thinking if they had the opportunity to share their thoughts? 

So, I have searched for a few quotes for you so maybe you can get another view on the theories and foundations our Constitution and governmental principles where based from.  Think about it……..

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
George Washington

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

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore Roosevelt

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
John Adams

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
John Quincy Adams

It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.
James K. Polk

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
Abraham Lincoln

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
Patrick Henry

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
Patrick Henry

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
Fisher Ames

e most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
Daniel Webster

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
Daniel Webster

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Abraham Lincoln

Something to truly think about!