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Sometimes how we dialogue in today's culture is just as important as why we dialogue.
— Jefferson Bethke
We know that sometimes the best place to see the stars in all their glory is the wilderness.
— Jefferson Bethke
He came not to save people but to save his entire creation, which we are a part of.
— Jefferson Bethke
It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt.
— Thomas Jefferson
God uniquely highlights marriage as one of the main ways we know who he is and how he relates to us.
— Jefferson Bethke
My "Christianity" was once again just the American religion of work hard, do good, feel good, and maybe God will say, "We good.
— Jefferson Bethke
We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.
— Thomas Jefferson
We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.
— Thomas Jefferson
We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.
— Thomas Jefferson
We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.
— Jefferson Davis
I don't know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It's a miracle substance! People had long intermissions, probably.
— Jefferson Mays
It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.
— Thomas Jefferson
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
— Thomas Jefferson
We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
— Thomas Jefferson
we declared that an attack on any one colony should be considered as an attack on the whole. This
— Thomas Jefferson
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
— Thomas Jefferson
The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.
— Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
— Thomas Jefferson
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
— Thomas Jefferson
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
— Thomas Jefferson
We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them
— Thomas Jefferson
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
— Thomas Jefferson
Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
— Thomas Jefferson
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.
— Jefferson Davis
Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?
— Thomas Jefferson
People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.
— Thomas Jefferson
Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.
— Thomas Jefferson
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.
— Thomas Jefferson
If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.
— Thomas Jefferson
We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest.
— Thomas Jefferson
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
— Thomas Jefferson
I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.
— Thomas Jefferson
We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.
— Thomas Jefferson
For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead ...
— Thomas Jefferson
We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation.
— Thomas Jefferson
The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.
— Thomas Jefferson
It's only when we understand that in Jesus we are cleansed, washed, and renewed that we see our sin fall by the wayside.
— Jefferson Bethke
As Christians, God doesn't promise us an easy life, but he does promise to be with us in whatever we go through. He will never leave us or forsake us.
— Jefferson Bethke
The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.
— Jefferson Davis
New Testament Christians were most known by their love for their neighbors, but today we are most known for our segregation of the lowly.
— Jefferson Bethke
Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.
— Thomas Jefferson
We are only tenants, and shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.
— Joseph Jefferson
We are completely saddled and bridled, and ... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.
— Thomas Jefferson
One of the most dangerous things about the Bible is that it is big enough to say whatever we want it to say if we are willing to remove the context.
— Jefferson Bethke
We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.
— Thomas Jefferson
We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .
— Thomas Jefferson
All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.
— Thomas Jefferson
We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another.
— Thomas Jefferson
We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.
— Thomas Jefferson
The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.
— Thomas Jefferson
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
— Thomas Jefferson
The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.
— Thomas Jefferson
We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.
— Thomas Jefferson
We commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution.
— Thomas Jefferson
The word worship is defined by glory and thanksgiving. We are worshiping when we give glory to something. Whatever we give glory to, we sacrifice for.
— Jefferson Bethke
What we learn to do, we learn by doing.
— Thomas Jefferson
We all come in with baggage. We all come in trying to find our way. We all come in with broken edges.
— Jefferson Bethke
Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.
— Benjamin Barber
Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
— Thomas Jefferson
We never repent of having eaten too little.
— Thomas Jefferson
We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.
— Thomas Jefferson
Only when we humbly call on God to speak into our lives - knowing if he doesn't, we won't succeed - are we actually in a safe place.
— Jefferson Bethke
If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'
— Robin Quivers
We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.
— Thomas Jefferson
We're only human James, bound by flesh and blood to do the wrong thing." ~Lena Jefferson from The Other Sister
— Cheri Paris Edwards
We might have been a free and great people together.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterward.
— Thomas Jefferson
Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.
— Thomas Jefferson
We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.
— Thomas Jefferson
Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself.
— Thomas Jefferson
All we ask is to be let alone.
— Jefferson Davis
We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.
— Thomas Jefferson
The boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.
— Thomas Jefferson
We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.
— Thomas Jefferson
In war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them
— Thomas Jefferson
We love God by loving his people.
— Jefferson Bethke
The most dangerous thing about the human heart is that we want to reverse the roles by making God the responder and us the initiators.
— Jefferson Bethke
We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.
— Thomas Jefferson
We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.
— Thomas Jefferson
God is most glorified in our lives when we show him to be most glorious regardless of what is thrown our way.
— Jefferson Bethke
God should get a lot more glory for things than we give him.
— Jefferson Bethke
In a postmodern world where all religious activity is seen as what we do for God, we need to proclaim Christianity is about what God has done for us.
— Jefferson Bethke
If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed,
— Thomas Jefferson
We don't celebrate the gift of Jesus on Christmas. We celebrate the gifts we get.
— Jefferson Bethke
If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.
— Thomas Jefferson
We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.
— Rush D. Holt Jr.
We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.
— Thomas Jefferson
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
— Thomas Jefferson