{"id":321,"date":"2020-01-28T07:34:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T13:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/?p=321"},"modified":"2020-01-28T07:34:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T13:34:15","slug":"life-changing-quotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"Life Changing Quotations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are two quotations that I have come across during my life that have been truly life changing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.\u201d <\/p>
– Edmund Burke <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you were on trial for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?\u201d <\/p>– Unknown<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

These two quotes, taken together, have often spurred me to go the extra mile, to step out, to do a little more, to stand up in the face of opposition. I determined early on to make sure that there would be plenty of evidence to convict me should I ever be accused of being a Christian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first quotation I heard more as “evil flourishes when good men do nothing”. Either way, it calls us to action against evil. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a legal standpoint, assent is the presumption of agreement based on inaction. In other words, if you don’t protest your silence indicates your agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, you could look on this post as a call to action – to stand up, to vote, to protest those actions that encroach on our God given rights, justice and righteousness – and I’m speaking to myself as much as anyone else that happens to read this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAmerica is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.\u201d <\/p> Alexis de Tocqueville <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are two quotations that I have come across during my life that have been truly life changing. \u201cThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.\u201d – Edmund Burke \u201cIf you were on trial for being a Christian, would there be enough… Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[23,22],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-christian","tag-quotable-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendamc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}