The republican model described in the Hebrew Scriptures reassured pious Americans that republicanism was a political system favored by God.

I contend that no book figured more prominently than the Bible in the political thought of these patriots we call the founders.

God elevates nations that behave in conformity with God's standards but he withdraws his blessings from a people who disregard those standards.

Nations, as well as individuals, must be virtuous and righteous if they desire to be stable, prosperous, and tranquil.

The true greatness of a nation lies in its character, not in its economic or military power.

Always stay young with your looks, your thoughts should speak your maturity

It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?

I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long poem.

Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals.

Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.

I think [Hillary] Clinton owes the press some thanks for going so far overboard on the emails and the Clinton Foundation over the past year.

The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.

Religion is another name for the realization of Truth. It consists in becoming and being one with the Supreme Being. Doctrines and dogmas are only details of a secondary nature.

Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy.

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.