Truth is more important, freedom is more complex, and Jesus is more liberating than you think.

And if anyone tries to say that the good news is not about all these things—about freeing slaves, about helping the poor, about reconciling warring factions, ethnic groupings, and whole nations, about looking after the blessed world we live on and in—but instead is only about coming to faith in the present and going to heaven in the future, then we must reply that something has gone very, very wrong in their thinking.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity

A truly free society protects all faiths, and true faith protects a free society.

We must be free or die, who speak the tongueThat Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals holdWhich Milton held.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.