Cal Thomas famous quotes

We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void.
-- Cal Thomas

#Christian #Biblical #Enlightenment

If life is not a continuum, from conception to natural death, then all of us are potential victims if we fall out of favor with a ruling elite.
-- Cal Thomas

#Fall #Favors #Life Is

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
-- Cal Thomas

#Hate #Objectivity #People

No matter how good a public school teacher, he or she will always be required to teach the state's values and the state's perspective on subjects from sex to history and biology.
-- Cal Thomas

#Teacher #Sex #School

It is now possible to live a "christian life" without doing the things that Jesus commanded us to do. We have hired people to go into all the world, to visit those in prison, to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to care for widows and orphans. The average Christian doesn't have to do it.
-- Cal Thomas

#Christian #Jesus #Average

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
-- Cal Thomas

#Change #Reflection #Government

The kingdom of God is not going to arrive on Air Force One.
-- Cal Thomas

#Air #Kingdoms #Force

People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.
-- Cal Thomas

#Running #Adversity #People

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
-- Cal Thomas

#Gun #Government #People

Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.
-- Cal Thomas

#Giving Up #Humorous #Blood

People for the American Way says it has yet to find anyone who has made a stronger case against the proposed school prayer Constitutional amendment... What kind of prayer would we use?
-- Cal Thomas

#Prayer #School #People

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
-- Cal Thomas

#Home #Character #Law

If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.
-- Cal Thomas

#Business #People #Society

Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
-- Cal Thomas

#Country #Power #Morality

Welfare mostly subsidizes people in poverty, helping few escape from it. In their hearts, most people who are poor would like to be rich, or at least self-sustaining, but this president never talks about how they might achieve that goal. Instead, he criticizes those who made the right choices and now enjoy the fruits of their labor. Rather than use successful people as examples for the poor to follow, the president seeks to punish the rich with higher taxes and more regulations on their businesses.
-- Cal Thomas

#Heart #Successful #Self

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
-- Cal Thomas

#Government #People #Institutions

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
-- Cal Thomas

#Government #People #Parent

But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.
-- Cal Thomas

#Heart #Soul #Prosperity

The courts demand that every religious person must accommodate a single atheist who might be 'offended' at the favorable mention of God's name. But no atheist can be forced to accommodate a single religious person who might be offended by the atheist's unbelief, or who wants to be part of the pluralism and diversity about which liberals regularly speak, but which is not broad enough to embrace people who believe in God.
-- Cal Thomas

#Religious #Atheist #Believe

Another question a biblically literate reporter might have asked is, "Why are you proclaiming the Ten Commandments when you believe no one can live up to all of them?"
-- Cal Thomas

#Believe #Atheism #Might

Not to remember 9/11, is to forget what brought it about.
-- Cal Thomas

#Remember #Forget

The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.
-- Cal Thomas

#Sports #Team #Differences

Republicans should save the clip of Jonathan Gruber and run it over and over again in the run-up to the 2016 election. This attitude that government is better at making decisions than you are because you are too stupid to know what is good for you is a hallmark of patronizing, arrogant and condescending liberalism.
-- Cal Thomas

#Running #Attitude #Stupid

Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends his son to die for you.
-- Cal Thomas

#Christian #Son #Islam

We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act that seems beyond comprehension. Remove societal restraints on some evils and one can expect the demons to be freed to conduct other evil acts.
-- Cal Thomas

#Evil #Demon #Restraint

The high-minded definition of politics is: 'the art or science of government; the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy.' It is only when you keep reading in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary that you get closer to the truth: 'political activities characterized by artful and often dishonest practices'.
-- Cal Thomas

#Art #Reading #Government

As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.
-- Cal Thomas

#Elderly #Ease #Pressure

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
-- Cal Thomas

#Organization #America #Political

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.
-- Cal Thomas

#Government #People #Soul

Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
-- Cal Thomas

#Lonely #Honor #Battle

So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum created by your retreat from popular culture.
-- Cal Thomas

#Christian #Energy #Vacuums

If the pro abortionists were not in control of the press, I am convinced that not only would the debate on abortion be over by now (have we really even had a national debate?), but the Pro-Life side would be victorious because we would have seen the pictures every night on television of what is taking place behind the doors of the abortion clinics and hospitals.
-- Cal Thomas

#Night #Doors #Pro Life