their national muskets in a most explosive state of readiness, who stopped all comers and goers,

Our morality seems to me only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

Satan, whom Paul labeled as "the god of this evil world," is so clever that he has fooled many people into thinking that he doesn't even exist—while in reality he controls their very lives.

There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy.

A lion does not earn its crown quarreling with sheep.

In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Know well that the enemy laboureth in all wise to stay thy desire in good and to make thee void of all good exercise.

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Satan loves to fish in the troubled waters of a discontented heart.

It was a witty fiction of the poets, that when Mercury had cast Argus into a sleep and with an enchanted wand closed his eyes, he then killed him. When Satan has by his witcheries lulled men asleep in sloth, then he destroys them. Some report that while the crocodile sleeps with its mouth open, the Indian rat gets into its belly and eats up its entrails. So while men sleep in security they are devoured.

They who pray that they may not be led into temptation, must not lead themselves into temptation. 2.