I had always believed in a power greater than myself. I had often pondered these things. I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this Universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushed nowhere.
Christian Libertarian Quotes
"Being a lover of freedom, when the [Nazi] revolution came, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but no, the universities were immediately silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers, whose flaming editorials in days gone had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks...
"Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing the truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration for it because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual and moral freedom. I am forced to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly." --Albert Einstein
"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." --Patrick Henry
We must repudiate one of the two, either Christianity with its love of God and one's neighbor, or the state and its armies and wars. --Leo Tolstoy, Address to the Swedish Peace Conference, 1909
My idea of God was not an authority whom I obeyed like a monarch but a principle of good as laid down by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, which I interpreted in day by day decisions as the forces of the state came in conflict with those ideals. --Ammon Hennecy, Autobiography of a Catholic Anarchist
If we move government out of the way, then I believe we can be more effective in delivering God’s message of salvation to a lost and dying world. Too many Christians look to the government for the power to change people’s lives. What does this accomplish? We merely change the outward. Christ tells us it is the inward which counts. We need to look to God and not the government for the strength and power to solve these problems. --Floyd Shackelford Libertarian Candidate for United States Representative from Alabama's 2nd Congressional District
I know, I know, there's a lot more than that. I'm just getting started. Email me with your own favorites and I'll put them on the list.
