Presidents talk about God
By Tom Quiner
This great country has been formed by our Judeo-Christian beliefs.
With this being Good Friday, I’d like to share some great quotes from American presidents on the subject of religion and its importance to us individually and collectively.
George Washington: “While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.”
Barack Obama: “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam”
John Adams: “Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God … What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be.”
Barack Obama: “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world — including in my own country.”
Ronald Reagan: “The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America – our country is in need of and ready for a spiritual renewal.”
Barack Obama: “As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam.”
Thomas Jefferson: “I am a real Christian – that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ.”
Barack Obama: “Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.”
James Madison: “A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect to have our names enrolled in the Annals of Heaven.”
Barack Obama: “Islam has always been part of America.”
James Monroe: “When we view the blessings with which our country has been favored, those which we now enjoy, and the means which we possess of handing them down unimpaired to our latest posterity, our attention is irresistibly drawn to the source from whence they flow. Let us then, unite in offering our most grateful acknowledgments for these blessings to the Divine Author of All Good.”
Barack Obama: “we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities”
Andrew Jackson: “[The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.”
Barack Obama: “These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings.”
Abraham Lincoln: In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man’s welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.”
Barack Obama: “The Holy Koran tells us, ‘O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.’”
Harry Truman: “The fundamental basis of this Nation’s law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings which we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul.”
Barack Obama: “I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.”
Teddy Roosevelt: “I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.”
Barack Obama: “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation”
Franklin Roosevelt: [The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity”
Barack Obama: “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.”
Harry Truman: “This is a Christian nation.”
Barack Obama: “I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story.”
Ronald Reagan: The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers’ abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which they found implicit in the Bible’s teachings of the inherent worth and dignity of each individual. This same sense of man patterned the convictions of those who framed the English system of law inherited by our own Nation, as well as the ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.”
Great assortment of truth. Interesting how you inserted our current president in such a way.
His obsession with Islam is interesting, isn’t it?
It is most interesting. It has led to all this so called “tolerance” and political correctness” which has turned our world upside down and inside out. We are expected to be kind to those who would easily kill us to promote their religion. Heaven help us – Oh, yeh, heaven did help us! Happy Easter to you.
A solemn Good Friday and a Happy Easter to you!
How extremely disturbing. He’s totally clueless. ¯\(°_o)/¯
Well done, Tom.
God Bless you and yours, this Holy weekend.
And to yours.
Great post. May you and your loved ones be blessed beyond your expectations, as you celebrate, with the millions of Christians who still believe in the crucifixion, and resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Thank-you, and same to you!
For sure many Americans and lots of people living in the materialist capitalist world have gone far away form the truth. Lots of them do not believe in a god or the God and most of them who call themselves Christian have taken them a three-headed god, with many of them even having graven images of their god which is an abomination of the Only One True God Who is Only One and not a Trinity.
Reason why so many Christians are also fearing the Muslims and the Jews is that those people still keep worshipping One God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Who is also the god of Jesus and his apostles. Because of many of those name Christians not knowing their Holy Scriptures it is the same as with several Muslims not knowing their holy scriptures that there can come so many extremists doing things which are totally against the sayings of their holy books (like raping children and women, torturing and killing innocent people, burning the holy scriptures, damaging houses of prayer for the One and Only God, Allah, the Elohim Hashem Jehovah).
Those that love God should show their love also to others and preach the peach the sent one from God preached as well. This sent one from God, rabbi Jeshua (Jesus Christ) is the Kristos who managed to do God His Will, putting his own will aside and giving his body as a ransom for our sins. Christians should follow his example and share Jesus his love for mankind and follow up the task Jesus has given his followers, to go out in the world preaching the gospel of the coming Kingdom? Than they have no reason to be afraid that in the West we would be trampled by Islamic faith-groups, because then the Christian faith can grow also under those who do not yet believe in the One and Only True God. His son showed the way and is the way to God we have to show others.
I will simply say that I agree with your conclusion as stated in your last sentence, even if I’m not with you on everything else.
That’s fine.
Those being part of the Body of Christ should fulfil the task given by rabbi Jeshua (Jesus Christ) and as such all who call themselves Christians should proclaim the gospel of the coming Kingdom of God and show others the Way to God.
God bless.