Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion or something as inane as our flicks.
There is only one religion though there are a hundred versions of it.
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
Every relationship probably has at its inception a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.
Tonight we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers or the power of our military or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
Once every five hundred years or so a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago when books of poems were best-sellers.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.