Showing posts with label Promised Land. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Promised Land. Show all posts

Sunday, July 4, 2010

God Bless America


"[Many places] have special meaning not so much for the soil or brick itself but because of what has happened (or will yet happen) there.

'...From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, the place is dignified by the doer’s deed,' said Shakespeare. (All’s Well That Ends Well, II. iii. 123–24.)

The most sacred of places, then, will always be those locations which God has designated for holy and eternal purposes, locations where he is the 'doer of the deed.' ...America is such a place."  Jeffrey R. Holland, "A Promised Land," July 1976

(The whole talk is worth a read, friends!  Happy 4th!)