We Hold These Truths QUOTES

1 " He will provide you with what you need. He is your heavenly Father – you are his child. God is the provider, He has already anticipated your need and made provisions. You will be given an opportunity to understand fatherhood. And then, your relationship with Him can be restored. "

― Skip Coryell , We Hold These Truths

2 " What is he going to do?” Richard shook his head in frustration. “He has a nuclear bomb and an airplane. What do you think he’s going to do?” Lance nodded in agreement at the unspoken fear. “He’ll kill as many people as he can, as soon as he can. That’s his nature. His fatwa. This is jihad.” Richard turned to look him in the eye. “That’s right. Chicago is the second largest city in the country, and all he has to do is fly straight down the coast a few hundred miles. "

― Skip Coryell , We Hold These Truths

3 " Because of his fanatical dedication to the cause and his own insatiable penchant for violence, he had quickly risen through the ranks of Al-Qaeda, eventually surpassing even many native Arabs. This had been unusual, since Muslims from third-world countries, though they comprised the majority of the Moslem population, were considered to be of a lower class than Moslems of Middle-Eastern descent. "

― Skip Coryell , We Hold These Truths

4 " Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name. And they’re always glad you came. You wanna go where people know, your troubles are all the same. You wanna go where everybody knows your name. "

― Skip Coryell , We Hold These Truths

5 " there was compassion and courage in her southern-fried voice. “It was just life, child. Just life. Few things we got are predictable. Mostly it’s outta are control. Ya just gotta close yer eyes and hang on fer the ride sometimes. But there’s this one thing I know over all my years. I stay close to God, and I never regret a friendship, if’n it’s a man or a woman or a child; they’re all so special in their own way. And sometimes they hurt, and sometimes they’re happy, but I done learned never to regret ‘em. The only regrets I have are the times when I got scared and took the safe way, even when God told me not to. I did it a few times, and I always knew it was a mistake afterwards. And, eventually, I learned not to let my fears make my decisions for me. Cuz every time I did it, for the rest of my born days, I always wondered what might of been – what could of been, if I’d of been strong instead of weak. "

― Skip Coryell , We Hold These Truths

6 " wondered if God was working now, through him. Was it possible. He heard his father’s voice again. “God will not call you and then abandon you. Never will I leave thee. Never will I forsake thee.” Richard believed those words now for the first time in his life. He’d heard it said that the end of man was the beginning of God. He was at his own end, and it was time for God to take over. He closed his eyes and prayed. “Dear Jehovah, my provider, provide a way for me to escape and stop this man of evil.” And then the oddest thing happened. He felt a strange, relaxing, peaceful balm spread over his whole body. It warmed him despite the wind and cold raging outside him, filling him with hope, and strength and determination. One thought came to his mind: God allows nothing to happen outside His will. God leaves nothing to chance. There is no such thing as chance. If that were true, then everything that had happened to him so far, was the act of God. In the light of this new perspective, Richard once again took stock of his assets and liabilities. "

― Skip Coryell , We Hold These Truths

7 " The liabilities were easy: He was locked in a trunk, bound and gagged; he had a nuclear bomb for a head rest, and there was a dead body lying beside him. The assets were a little more difficult. And then it hit him. If nothing occurred without God’s approval, and he left nothing to chance, then everything that happened to him was part of God’s larger plan. He thought about it. If all that were true, and God loved His creation, then . . . his liabilities were also his assets. "

― Skip Coryell , We Hold These Truths

8 " And we beseech thee, O mighty and righteous God, to pour the wealth of your mercy, though it be undeserved, onto the pour, lowly sinners of Lansing, Michigan. We implore thee, all powerful God, all knowing God, ever present and uncontainable God, we pray the magnanimousity of your love and grace. "

― Skip Coryell , We Hold These Truths

9 " that they had been ready for death, in fact, always had been. His father had lived life close to his God, in full submission and obedience to all of God’s laws and ways. His father was, or had been, a good Jew. Richard didn’t know where he was now. He didn’t even want to think about it anymore. If he didn’t free himself, then he would soon freeze to death, or worse yet, Momin would return to finish the job personally. "

― Skip Coryell , We Hold These Truths

10 " I urge you now, as we stand in the shadowy dusk of our independence, to remember and ponder the blood of our ancestors, the blood of those who fought and died so that we might live free. Do not cheapen its memory with apathy. Do not devalue its worth with passivity. Our founding fathers may have lived long ago, but there are natural powers which bind us together even beyond death, powers which transcend space and time, spiritual powers of the heart and soul of humanity. This bond cannot be denied or stripped from us. It is the irrevocable law of God and Nature. It is not a physical bond. It is a spiritual bond. A bond of the deepest, strongest kind - a bond of unseen blood! "

― Skip Coryell , We Hold These Truths

11 " In a few moments, I must leave you. My friend is outside holding back the hordes of evil that would possess your soul, but that will not last for long. So let me just leave you with these final words. The creator loves you. He wishes to take you home to Him. He wishes to wrap His arms around you as a father to a son. But the choice must be yours. If you choose Father God, the Creator, then all will be forgiven, and you will enter into your new life – heart pure – white as snow – free to choose and serve the creator who loves you. "

― Skip Coryell , We Hold These Truths

12 " Every man, woman, and child is a story. We are all books waiting to be written. And inside the cover of each man, beneath the surface, we discover what makes him laugh and cry. Sometimes it’s best to hold off on first impressions. That’s what I’ve done with you. "

― Skip Coryell , We Hold These Truths

13 " You say what’s on your mind, and for the most part you have integrity. But there’s just one thing that bothers me. Sometimes you think you’re better than other people. You feel superior to all these dumb farmers and rednecks around here. And that one thing is what keeps you from becoming a great reporter and a great writer, because it keeps you from seeing the value of those around you. The people in this little hick town are some of the most interesting on earth. You just don’t see it because you already have them stereotyped. And I guess I recognize it in you, because I used to be the same way. But I have to tell you straight from the hip, that I’ve learned more from these lowly rednecks in the past 10 years than all my stay in the ivy league. Harvard teaches books, but Freidham Ridge teaches life! "

― Skip Coryell , We Hold These Truths

14 " If tomorrow all the things were gone, I’d worked for all my life, and I had to start again, with just my children and my wife. I’d thank my lucky stars to be living here today, cuz the flag still stands for freedom, and you can’t take that away. "

― Skip Coryell , We Hold These Truths

15 " But we must go on. We must! It’s what God wants us to do. It’s what he demands of us, what He has always demanded of his servants since the creation of time. And He just wants us to trust His judgment, have faith that a new day will dawn, and He never ever, ever, wants us to give up the fight. Because my friends, it is a battle of the spirit. It’s black and white. It’s good and evil - right and wrong - us against them. But this one event is just a small part of all that is pure terror and unholy evil. There’s no other explanation for it. We are at war my people, at war with Satan and all his fallen ones, and none of us will rest until Jesus Christ has returned and defeated him in that one, final and decisive battle. "

― Skip Coryell , We Hold These Truths

16 " I’ve never been much for political correctness myself. Yep. As far as I’m concerned, politically correct is just another name for brain dead. "

― Skip Coryell , We Hold These Truths

17 " In I Corinthians 12:10, it talked about those who could discern the evil in another’s spirit. She quoted it inside her head now and the words brought her comfort. ‘To one there is given through the spirit, the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same spirit, to another faith by the same spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits. . . .’ And right now, Louise was distinguishing evil and falsehood inside this man. Something about him just didn’t feel right. "

― Skip Coryell , We Hold These Truths

18 " As the good book says, ‘For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. "

― Skip Coryell , We Hold These Truths

19 " Can you smell that black dirt over there Hank?” Hank tested the wind and nodded as Rock continued on. “Yeah. Me too. Just plowed it yesterday. You can’t smell that in the city. There are roots in that dirt. Roots that run deep and strong. I grew up in the country surrounded by dirt like that, and after I retired, well, it just felt natural to get back out into the real America, back into the heartland where real people live and breathe and can smell the rich, black dirt of the earth. "

― Skip Coryell , We Hold These Truths

20 " They understood that the Second Amendment is not so much about guns as it is about accountability, and politeness, and the basic freedom of self defense. People who live around dirt are very simple folk and they look at the world through simple eyes, untainted by political correctness or liberal ideology. And because they live around dirt, they remain close to their roots, and the simple things that city people don’t understand are just plain common sense to them. "

― Skip Coryell , We Hold These Truths