GOOD ATTITUDE

Remember Scott Hamilton, the olympic gold medalist ice skater?
He's been through some really tough times and comes through it all with a good attitude.
From the article, How Olympic Gold Medalist Scott Hamilton Found Jesus, Scott says,"I just learned that the only true disability in life is a bad attitude."

You know, I think he's right.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/how-olympic-gold-medalist-scott-hamilton-found-jesus-68160/

Repost

This quote from John Bunyan (1628-1688) is so good, I just had to repost it, even though I posted it on September 27th.

It just makes me want to say, "HALLELUJAH, WHAT A SAVIOR!"

"He cannot, after he has come to the soul as a Spirit of adoption, come again as a Spirit of bondage, to put the soul into its first fear, to wit, a fear of eternal damnation, because he cannot say and unsay, do and undo. As a Spirit of adoption he told me that my sins were forgiven me, that I was included in the covenant of grace, that God was my Father through Christ, that I was under the promise of salvation, and that this calling and gift of God to me is permanent, and without repentance. And do you think, that after he has told me this, and sealed up the truth of it to my precious soul, that he will come to me, and tell me that I am yet in my sins, under the curse of the law and the eternal wrath of God? No, no; the word of the gospel is not yea, yea; nay, nay; it is only yea, and amen; it is so, as God is true (2 Cor.1:17, 20)."

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Five star General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964):

"History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster."

First Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Jay (1745-1829):

"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."

Did you know that Benjamin Franklin opposed salaries for officers of government, inluding the executive branch:

"I think I see inconveniences in the appointment of salaries; I see none in refusing them, but on the contrary, great advantages.

Sir, there are two passions which have a powerful influence on the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice; the love of power, and the love of money. Seperately each of these has great force in prompting men to action; but when united in view of the same object, they have in many minds the most violent effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

And of what kind are the men that will strive for this profitable pre-eminence, through all the bustle of cabal, the heat of contention, the infinite mutual abuse of parties, tearing to pieces the best of characters? It will not be the wise and moderate; the lovers of peace and good order, the men fittest for the trust. It will be the bold and the violent, the men of strong passions and indefatigable activity in their selfish pursuits.. These will thrust themselves into your Government and be your rulers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Besides these evils, Sir, though we may set out in the beginning with moderate salaries, we shall find that such will not be of long continuance. Reasons will never be wanting for proposed augmentations. And there will always be a party for giving more to the rulers. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Hence, as all history informs us, there has been in every State and Kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the governing and governed: the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less. . . . . . . . .

Generally indeed the ruling power carries its point, the revenues of princes constantly in want of more. The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes; the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partizans and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure.

There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh, get first all the peoples money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants for ever."

HOW PROPHETIC!

But then again, the founding fathers of our country studied and learned from history and they also new the sin nature of man, experiencing tyranny fisrthand.

Of course, how can anyone know the truth about history, let alone learn from it, when it is rivised and falsified to feed to the masses of sheep (Pharaoh's servants) sent to the slaughtering houses called public schools.

I believe we are reaping what has been sowed.

A QUOTE FROM REV. JOHN WITHERSPOON, 1776

"There is not a single instance in history in which civil liberty was lost, and religious liberty preserved entire. If therefore we yield up our temporal property, we at the same time deliver the conscience into bondage."

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Progressivism= Punishing the successful and rewarding the lazy.

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds"

-Samuel Adams

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."

-James Madison

QUOTES

"When bureaucrats force you to fear your government, it is no longer your government."

Author unknown

"Every tax imposed, diminishes our freedom."

Author unknown

"Rebellion To Tyrants, is Obedience To God."

Thomas Jefferson

"....We ought to obey God rather than men."

Acts 5:29

"Man will either be governed by God or ruled by tyrants."

William Penn

"Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. the object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"

George Orwell, from his novel, 1984

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

George Washington 

"The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it."

John Hay, 1872

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When we get piled
upon one another in large cities, as in Europe,
we shall become as corrupt as Europe .
Thomas Jefferson


The democracy will cease to exist
when you take away from those
who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson


It is incumbent on every
generation to pay its own debts as it goes.
A principle which if acted on would save
one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson


I predict future happiness for
Americans if they can prevent the government
from wasting the labors of the people under the
pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson


My reading of history convinces me
that most bad government results from too much
government.
Thomas Jefferson


No free man shall ever be debarred
the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson


The strongest reason for the
people to retain the right to keep and bear arms
is, as a last resort, to protect themselves
against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson


The tree of liberty must be
refreshed from time to time with the blood of
patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson


To compel a man to subsidize with
his taxes the propagation of ideas which he
disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson


Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
'I believe that
banking institutions are more dangerous to
our liberties than standing armies.
If the American people ever allow
private banks to control the issue of their
currency, first by inflation, then by
deflation, the banks and corporations that will
grow up around the banks will deprive the people
of all property - until their children
wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers
conquered.'

QUOTES AND RAMBLINGS

"The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists."

- J. Edgar Hoover


“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”

- Samuel Adams

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Some would like to think that the Constitution is a living document (which it's not), i.e., the meaning of the Constitution can change according to the whims of society.

Just think what would happen if they said that about the Bible!

You would have moral relativism, doing what's right in our own eyes, moral decay, no absolutes, the church would be apostate, the church would not be teaching sound doctrine.

OH WAIT!

Come to think of it, people do say that about the Bible.

Proverbs 14:12

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

QUOTE

"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." ~ Thomas Jefferson

Quotes

“ . . .Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, – That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter it or to abolish it . . . it is (not only) their right it is their duty . . .”

Thomas Jefferson, 1776
The Declaration of Independence

democracy is nothing more than mob rule where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the forty-nine.

Thomas Jefferson

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.

Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America

An interesting link: http://ltdgov.com/