Many if not most of the parenting principles that we champion are based upon biblical truths. We have always thought it important to weave elements of America’s Christian heritage into our instruction at home with our kids because they will rarely hear this perspective in the public schools. This page contains a few of the quotations that we have shared with our kids and our classes over the years.
Patrick Henry
“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!”
Patrick Henry
John Jay
“Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers. And it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest, of a Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.”
John Jay, 1st Supreme Court Chief Justice
In 1844 in Philadelphia, a school took an unprecedented position: it would teach its students morality, but not Christianity. The Court ruled it could not do so–the Bible and Christianity must be included: “Why may not the Bible, and especially the New Testament … be read and taught as a divine revelation in the [schools]–its general precepts expounded. . . and its glorious principles of morality inculcated? Where can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?”
Vidal v. Girard’ s Executors, 1844
Thomas Jefferson
“I have never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.”
“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.”
“Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from His lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christian.”
Thomas Jefferson
