The Founders on Religion: A Book of QuotationsJames H. Hutson Princeton University Press, 2009 M11 10 - 288 páginas What did the founders of America think about religion? Until now, there has been no reliable and impartial compendium of the founders' own remarks on religious matters that clearly answers the question. This book fills that gap. A lively collection of quotations on everything from the relationship between church and state to the status of women, it is the most comprehensive and trustworthy resource available on this timely topic. |
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... divine economy, and many others. That the Founders had much to say about these topics should come as no surprise. With a few exceptions, Benjamin Franklin being the most conspicuous one, they were regular churchgoers, many active in the ...
... divine. I believe in God and in his Wisdom and Benevolence; and I cannot conceive that such a Being could make such a Species as the human merely to live and die on. Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, May 10, 1817. Adams Papers ...
... Divine Providence, your forefathers removed to the wilds and wilderness of America. By their industry they made it a fruitful, and by their virtue a happy country. And we should still have enjoyed the blessings of peace and plenty, if ...
... Divine over-ruling hand, in that it was brought about and perfected against all human reasoning, and apparently against all human hope. . . . Divine Providence, throughout the government of this world, appears to have impressed many ...
... divine providence, in the appointed order of things, the protectors of unborn ages, whose fate depends upon your virtue. John Dickinson, Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies. Paul H. Ford, ed ...