Pamphlet #502

by:A Pennsylvanian

Things That Matter Most

"At the End of Your Life"

"You Will Never Regret

not having passed one more test,

winning one more verdict,

or closing one more deal."

"You Will Regret

time not spent with

a husband,

a child,

a friend,

or a parent."

"What ever the Era,

what ever the time

one thing will never change:

Fathers and Mothers,

if you have children,

they must come first...

Your Success as a Family,

Our Success as a Society,

Depends not on what happens

in the White House,

but

What Happens

in Your House."

by Barbara Bush

Monuments & Memorials

There are no Monuments or Memorials in Washington

to a President for his Economic Policies.

The People who

we Remember and Revere

are those

who Believed in the things that Matter Most:

the things of the Spirit,

such as

Honor, Selflessness, Humility,

Service to Others,

Self Control, Fidelity, and Virtue

Such Notions used to be Basic

They were Rarely Discussed.

They were Considered

"Self Evident Truths"

The Things That Matter

*******************

Above all else,

these are the things that matter most:
 

faith in a personal God who is Knowable,

Family,

Freedom to Pursue one's Dreams,

and

Keeping most of the Gain
you get through hard and honest work

By discarding faith in God
you have lost the concept of sin,

which teaches that Man is not basically good,
but is flawed from within

and can never be made perfect from without.

One cannot understand America

and certainly not

its founders or institutions

if one does not understand

the Jewish/Christian consciousness
of the reality of sin.

With out that understanding,
one is living in a fools paradise.

Without that,

the Institutions will not Function

or long endure.

Our Republic

was
Designed for Sinners

This Republic was designed for sinners.

There is no use Trying
to Build a Republic for Saints.

There are too few of them.

You need a Republic
with Checks and Balances.

Be distrustful of

"utopic instincts"

The Massive Illusion

that Citizens are Inherently and Infallibly Good,

and that Government Officials
may Establish Happiness on Earth,

has met reality.

The Greatest Power on Earth

is not what Outsiders do to us,

but,

what we do to Ourselves.

We Don't Need New Leaders
****************
We don't need to look for new leaders,

we need to be new leaders.

America is People who once,

shared a common idea,

a set of values and principles
that defined a nation.

Just One "Ordinary" Person
***************
The redemption of a great nation

can begin

with a single and powerful decision

by one "ordinary" person

that influences others

to make similar decisions

because they perceive

how right and beautiful and good that decision is.

The promise for the future,

rooted in a new birth

of spiritual, political, and economic freedom,

can and must be kept.

We owe it to those who have gone before.

If we fail,

we will be held accountable

by those who are yet to come.

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