*Our nation was founded as an experiment in human liberty. Its institutions reflect the belief of our founders that men had their origin and destiny in God; that they were endowed by Him with inalienable rights and had duties prescribed by moral law, and that human institutions ought primarily to help men develop their God-given possibilities. ~ John Foster Dulles
We are too inclined to think of law as something merely restrictive—-something hemming us in, We sometimes think of law as the opposite to liberty. But this is a false conception. . . . God does not contradict Himself. He did not create man and then, as an afterthought, impose upon him a set of arbitrary, irritating, restrictive, rules. He made man free—-and then gave him commandments to keep him free. . . . We cannot break the Ten Commandments. We can only break ourselves against them—-or else by keeping them, rise through them to a fullness of freedom under God. God means us to be free. With divine daring, He gave us the power of choice. ~ Cecil B. DeMille
(It’s not by divine daring that we have the power to choose for ourselves. Our God’s deliberate / excellent plan has given us a path of endless growth for our good and His names glory. He has provided this way through choices we make to change and increase in humble [… not self-serving] usefulness, engaged in His divine purposes. k)
