Ruben Carranza

“Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.”
― Eric Metaxas, If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

“The deeper our troubles, the louder our thanks to God, who has led us through all, and preserved us until now.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Christian Classics: Six books by Charles Spurgeon in a single collection, with active table of contents

“Oh, if ever I get to heaven, it will be because God will, and nothing else; for I never did any thing of myself, but get away from God!”
― David Brainerd, The Life and Diary of David Brainerd

“You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you’ll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.*”
― Eugene B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa