“Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack’d, and never well mended.”
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1750
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Afraid of being laughed at
“Christians are afraid to speak of God — they run down with the stream; if they come into worldly company, they will talk of the world as if they were in their element; … The time has been when you had something to say for your dear Lord; but now you can go into company and hear others speaking about the world bold enough, and you are afraid of being laughed at if you speak for Jesus Christ.”
George Whitefield
The Collected Sermons of George Whitefield.
“The Method of Grace” (Jeremiah 6:14)
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The Last Bipartisan Trait
“… our leaders are cowards, and the cowardice runs across both parties. It may be the last bipartisan trait.”
Alex Berenson
From his Free Newsletter
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If Destruction Be Our Lot
Abraham Lincoln
“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
Abraham Lincoln
A speech at the Springfield Young Men’s Lyceum in January 1838.
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Two Books
“There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error: first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.”
Francis Bacon, father of the scientific method
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Clint Morey 