"America wasn't founded as a theocracy. America was founded by people trying to escape theocracies. Never in history have we had a Christian theocracy where it wasn't bloody and barbaric. That's why our Constitution wisely put in a separation of church and state."

-- Gregory A. Boyd

#Christian Quotes #America Quotes #People Quotes

“You take that leap of faith. You have to be willing to follow, blindly, wherever it takes you. If you know where you're going beforehand, you're not going to end up with anything worth knowing.”
“I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.”
“The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors.”
“The whole life story of Jesus, on the human side, is the life story of One who lived by faith.”
“When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.”
“Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other.”
“There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.”
“Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others”

Source : Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.403

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