The American Soul

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature.” —President...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” —John Jay, First Supreme Court Chief Justice, 12 October 1816 Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Se...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “The Scriptures teach... that rulers should be men who rule in the fear of God, able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness [Exodus 18:21]. ... It is to the neglect of this rule of conduct in our citizens that we must ascribe the multiplied frauds, breaches of trust, peculations, and embezzlements of public property which astonish even ourselves!...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even to the very forms of monarchy, and many of its precepts have for their obiects republican liberty and equality as well as simplicity, integrity, and economy in government. It is only necessary for republicanism to ally itself to t...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure; and every one of these will soon mold itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities -all the powers of wealth, I beauty, wit, and...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Blessed, forever blessed, be the name of God!” —John Quincy Adams, 1844 Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Countryside-Book-J-T-Cope-IV-ebook/dp/B00MPIXOB2   America's Christian Heritage Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/2622483

Drop us a note about the podcast. “It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great mass of those who have risen to eminence by their profound wisdom and integrity have recognized and reverenced Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of the living God.” —John Quincy Adams Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzspr...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the World, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day… Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity…”...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.” —John Quincy Adams, 4 July 1821 Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Countryside-Book-J-T-Cope-IV-ebo...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “But the Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ... You think it blasphemous that the omnipotent Creator could be crucified. God is a spirit. The spirit was not crucified. The body of Jesus of Nazareth was crucified.” —John Quincy Adams  Suppo...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “These duties are to God, to your fellow-creatures, and to yourself. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength, and thy neighbor as thy self." On these two commandments, Jesus Christ expressly says, "hang all the law and the prophets…”” —John Quincy Adams Support th...

Drop us a note about the podcast. "It is not necessary in New England (where everybody reads the Bible and is acquainted with Scripture phrases) that I should note the Bible references from which I take them, but I have observed in England as well as in France that verses and expressions taken from the Sacred Writings (and not known to be such) appear very strange and awkward to some readers....

Drop us a note about the podcast. “In battle and in the face of danger and death, he discloses those divine attributes which his Maker gave when He created man in His own image.” —General Douglas MacArthur, 1962 Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Countryside-Book-J-T-Cope-IV-ebook/dp/B00MPIXOB2   Am...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “The sum of the whole is that the blessing of God is only to be looked for by those who are not wanting in the discharge of their own duty.” —JOHN WITHERSPOON, SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Countryside-Book-J-T-Cope-IV-ebook/dp/B00MPIX...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “All that the best men can do is to persevere in doing their duty… and leave the consequences to Him who made it their duty…” —John Jay, First Supreme Court Chief Justice  Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Countryside-Book-J-T-Cope-IV-ebook/dp/B00MPIXOB2   America&...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “In the language of the Holy Writ, there is a time for all things. There is a time to preach and a time to fight. And now is the time to fight.” —John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, 1775 Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Countryside-Book-J-T-Cope-IV-ebook/dp/B00MPIXOB2...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Religious liberty is peculiarly friendly to fair and generous disquisition. Here, Deism will have its full chance; nor need Libertines more to complain of being overcome by any weapons but the gentle, the powerful ones of argument and of truth. Revelation [the Bible] will be found to stand the test to the ten-thousandth examination.” —Ezra Stiles Support the show...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “You do not have to be a Christian in order to be an American… but we will not have freedom and liberty in our republic without a people who follow the teachings of Christ.” Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Countryside-Book-J-T-Cope-IV-ebook/dp/B00MPIXOB2   Americ...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure, than they have it now, they may change their Rulers and the form...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “The great Author of our faith [Hebrews 12:21], Whose life should be the constant object of our imitation (as far as it is not inimitable), always showed the greatest compassion and regard for the sick…” —Benjamin Franklin, 1751 Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Co...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not only of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under free governments and in all the combinations of human society.” —John Adams, 1811 Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Countryside-Book-J-...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “The same law shall apply to the native as to the stranger who sojourns among you.” —Exodus 12:49 Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Countryside-Book-J-T-Cope-IV-ebook/dp/B00MPIXOB2   America's Christian Heritage Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/2622483

Drop us a note about the podcast. “The Christian religion is, above all the Religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of Wisdom, Virtue, Equity, and Humanity.” —John Adams, 1796 Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Countryside-Book-J-T-Cope-IV-ebook/dp/B00MPIXOB...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “The general principles, on which the Fathers achieved independence, were the only Principles in which that beautiful Assembly of young Gentlemen could Unite....And what were these general Principles? I answer, the general Principles of Christianity, in which all these Sects were United…” —John Adams, 1813 Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buz...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “These were not wild eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: ‘For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes,...