There is Something of Moses in Each of Us

Charlton Heston, 1963 (source)

“To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.  He was a man of immense ability, immense emotions, immense humanness and immense dedication.  There is something of Moses in each of us – the more there is, the better we are.

“It is interesting to note that once Moses climbs Mt. Sinai and talks to God there is never contentment for him again.  That is the way it is with us.  Once we talk to God, once we get his commission to us for our lives we cannot be again content.  We are happier.  We are busier.  But we are not content because then we have a mission – a commission, rather.”

– Charlton Heston (October 4th, 1923 – April 5th, 2008),
Los Angeles Times interview, October 1956

The Hope of a Happy Nation

George Washington’s signature (source)

“I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.”

– George Washington,
“Circular to the States”, 1783

 

 

Belief In A God All Powerful

This post has been republished on A Home and a Country.

Intoxication and Self-Sufficiency

“Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!”

– Abraham Lincoln
March 30, 1863

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