Jeremiah Denton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE...TORTURE...
-- Jeremiah Denton

#Voice #Messages #Conservative
A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor.
-- Jeremiah Denton

#Prayer #Men #Anchors
We are honored to have had the opportunity to serve our country under difficult circumstances. We are profoundly grateful to our Commander-in-Chief and to our nation for this day. God bless America.
-- Jeremiah Denton

#Country #Grateful #Opportunity
Founded on faith in God, the United States has been blessed as no other nation.
-- Jeremiah Denton

#Blessed #United States #Faith In God
The nation is only as strong as the collective strength of its individuals.
-- Jeremiah Denton

#Strong #Individual #Collectives
The family is the engine that drives civilization. Throughout history, those cultures that have failed to found their rules and attitudes of society on the central importance of the family unit have decayed and disintegrated.
-- Jeremiah Denton

#Attitude #Civilization #Culture
I prayed. God became more than faith. He became knowledge, and I appealed to him. Then I became ashamed. Why hadn't I embraced him so thoroughly before?
-- Jeremiah Denton

#Ashamed
Our coin bears the inscription: In God We Trust. And our Bible reassures us: The Lord is just and merciful. With the Lord thence our protector, whom or what shall we fear?
-- Jeremiah Denton

#Coins #Bears #Lord
I would be killed by an atheistic government which was trying to force me to renounce my God-fearing government. I was convinced that the next day would be my last on earth, and I felt no bitterness. God had given me a full life.
-- Jeremiah Denton

#Government #Next Day #Trying
My principal battle with the North Vietnamese was a moral one, and prayer was my prime source of strength.
-- Jeremiah Denton

#Prayer #Battle #Moral
Although I had lived a far from perfect life, my heart and soul belonged to God, country, and family long before the Navy got hold of me.
-- Jeremiah Denton

#Country #Heart #Long

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