Excerpt From “I Pledge Allegiance” Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
September 10th, 2010
I was asked to read this for a program when I got to church yesterday. Text: What a country this is! To my way of thinking, there is nothing like it anywhere in the world. I have visited many beautiful lands, but upon returning to the United States, there is always the feeling that Almighty God carved out here a very wonderful and special country… We need to recount the stories of the great souls America has produced and who produced America. We need to tell and retell these stories beginning with the Pilgrim Fathers. Bibles under their arms, setting forth in little ships, across a stormy sea, driven not by the winds that raged the Atlantic and caught the sails of their little boats, but by the mighty conviction that as sons of God no one could make slaves of them… Something within drove them across trackless wastes to an inhospitable shore, where unhampered by the autocracy of men, they could worship God in all the dignity of free men. We, too, need that spirit of freedom in our hearts. We need to recover the cleanness and manhood and power and might of the United States in our minds. We must reemphasize morality, decency and honesty. We need more of God and more of Jesus Christ. Deeply rooted in the American tradition are the sovereignty of God and the sacredness of human personality. Upon these two pillars rests American freedom. — Dr. Norman Vincent Peale from his sermon “I Pledge Allegiance”
5 Responses to “Excerpt From “I Pledge Allegiance” Dr. Norman Vincent Peale”
emailpack October 3rd, 2007 at 10:20 pm #
Hello do you have any recommendation for the nation?
menderfire9 September 9th, 2008 at 4:25 pm #
Yes, yes, I love the USA. I am grateful for all the advantages that I grew up with, but PROUD of CHRISTIANITY and PROUD of the USA I am not!
The Constitution was meaningless to women & millions of black people who were enslaved for many generations. Meaningless to the millions of Indigenous people who were massacred, whose land those “Christians” “discovered” … Those Mexicans who lost Tx/Az/Cal/New Mexico through our bloody invasion of their land, & and we discriminate against them still!!
menderfire9 September 11th, 2008 at 8:02 am #
Yes, yes, I love the USA. I am grateful for all the advantages that I grew up with, but PROUD of CHRISTIANITY and PROUD of the USA I am not! The Constitution was meaningless to women & millions of black people who were enslaved for many generations. Meaningless to the millions of Indigenous people who were massacred, whose land those “Christians” “discovered” … Those Mexicans who lost Tx/Az/Cal/New Mexico through our bloody invasion of their land, & and we discriminate against them still!!
Feuchtraumfanta January 23rd, 2009 at 9:37 pm #
Europe is much better than USA, much freer and richer and we have culture which you have not.
minjonetminna January 24th, 2009 at 1:26 am #
I’ve never been to Europe so I have not seen personally which of us is richer or freer. But I do know that while Europeans may have culture, America is a culture.