...dare to violate them without incurring his wrath? "Indeed, I tremble for my country," Jefferson wrote, "when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever." There was no doubt that slavery was an evil, and yet Jefferson, at once a starry-eyed idealist...

...State of Virginia, predicting a confrontation between slavery and freedom: "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune,...

...have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever. It is ironic religious liberals who are clamoring the loudest about "the separation of church...

...possibility of "supernatural interference" in American politics and claims, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. . . . The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest" ( Jefferson,...

...until finally God Himself had come down to remove it. "I tremble for my country," Jefferson had said, "when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." By Lincoln's reckoning, God's justice had awoken, and He intended to mete it out Old Testament-style...

...gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever. . . ,"256 At the Constitutional Convention, George Mason similarly foresaw that the failure...

...conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever."270 Likewise, in George Washington's prayer book, we find the following words: О most Glorious...

...the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever." Thomas Jefferson Proverbs 33:12, "Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD." Maybe the...

...gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever." John Adams pointedly added, "We have no government armed with power capable of contending...

...something very interesting to say about the judgment of America. He said, "Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." America is spiritually ill, morally bankrupt and our culture is swimming in a sewer of impropriety....