The American Soul

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Mutual or reciprocal consent is dictated by the principle of natural equality.  If an immigrant can successfully impose himself on a political community, in violation of its laws, then the relation between the immigrant and the community is not a relationship of equals.” —Kevin Portteus, 2012 Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Many of us, indeed, have the feeling that we are living in a country where a fanatic hooligans and eccentrics have got the upper hand.”  —Sir Horace Rumbold, British Ambassador, 1933, describing Germany under the control of the Nazis Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon....

Drop us a note about the podcast. “…every society from a great nation down to a club had the right of declaring the conditions on which new members should be admitted.” — Gouverneur Morris, Founding Father  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. “Obligation, for Jefferson, is the result of free choice on the part of the individual. One is not bound to a ruler, to whom he has not given his free consent. Thus if an individual chooses to depart from the regime of his birth and to associate with a new one, he has an inherent right to do so. This is not a right of Englishmen under English law, but an inherent...

Drop us a note about the podcast. 5. That they studiously redeeme the time; observe the generall houres…diligently attend the Lectures, without any disturbance by word or gesture… —Harvard University, Rules and Precepts, 1642 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/B...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Christ said that a married man and woman are “one flesh”— they become two parts of the same whole, in the same sense that a lock and key are two parts of the same machine.” —C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity  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...

Drop us a note about the podcast. 4. That they shewing all profanation of God's name, Attributes, Word, Ordinances, and times of Worship, do studie with good conscience carefully to retaine God, and the love of his truth in their mindes, else let them know, that (notwithstanding their Learning) God may give them up to strong delusions, and in the end to a reprobate minde, 2 Thes. 2:11, 12. Ro...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “It is startling to realize that all this [Churchill’s home and manor] is less than twenty-five miles from Hyde Park corner. There men on soap- boxes tell crowds, who nod in agreement, that society is rushing toward catastrophe. In eight years it will be upon them, but here all is serene. The sound of heavy guns, the roar of hostile bomb-laden aircraft overhead ar...

Drop us a note about the podcast. 2. Let every student be well instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well, the maine end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternall life, John 17:3 and therefore to lay Christ in the bottome, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and Learning. And seeing the Lord only giveth wisedome, Let every one seriously set himsel...

Drop us a note about the podcast. Behold, O Israel! behold! It is no human One That ye have dared to crucify. What evil hath he done? It is your King, O Israel, The God-begotten Son! —Nathaniel Hawthorne  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&a...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “The man who does not reverence religion, the man who does not respect Christianity, the man who does not feel honor and reverence for the Bible, the Sabbath, and the Christian God, he is out of tune with American history.  The man who goes about this country to blaspheme Christianity is the true "little American"; and the man who is in sympathy with Ame...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “That is the way our fathers put church and school together.  When they built a church, it was for college to hold its commencements in.  When they built a college, there was always a place for the church in it.“ —W.H.P. Faunce Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Cou...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of its benevolent Institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science; and the freest expansion of the human mind.” —Thomas Jefferson, 1801 Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.bu...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “The man who loves that for which his country stands - he, and he alone, is the man who loves his country.” —W.H.P Faunce 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.buzz...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.”  ― Daniel Webster.  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...

Drop us a note about the podcast. patriotism , n. Love of one's country; the passion which aims to serve one's country, either in defending it from invasion, or protecting its rights and maintaining its laws and institutions in vigor and purity. Patriotism is the characteristic of a good citizen, the noblest passion that animates a man in the character of a citizen. —Noah Webster's...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Probably at the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration, the general, if not the universal, sentiment in America was, that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the state, so far as was not incompatible with the private rights of conscience, and the freedom of religious worship.” —Joseph Story, Supr...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “All societies of men must be governed in some way or other. The less they may have of stringent State Government, the more they must have of individual self-government. The less they rely on public law or physical force, the more they must rely on private moral restraint. Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “It may do for other countries and other governments to talk about the State supporting religion. Here, under our own free institutions, it is Religion which must support the State.” —Robert Winthrop 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-eb...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Whether this will prove a blessing or a curse, will depend upon the use our people will make of the blessings which a gracious God hath bestowed on us. If they are wise, they will be great and happy. If they are of a contrary character, they will be miserable. Righteousness alone can exalt them as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this: and in thy sphe...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." —Patrick Henry Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://w...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” —...

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...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”” —‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭15‬:‭33‬  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 apostle goes on——For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil.  Wilt thou then, not be afraid of the power?  Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same.  For he is the minister of God to thee for good…” —Mayhew, 1750 Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series...