Quotes about Heritage
Ours may be the heritage of the withheld promises. We have been blessed through the endurance and faithfulness of those who have suffered in the past; the people around us, or those who will succeed us, may be blessed through our trials and suffering and how we react to them.
— Billy Graham
If ever a generation was bequeathed the knowledge of God, we were. Yet we are throwing away this glorious heritage on our lust and passions.
— Billy Graham
God honored and blessed America as few nations in history. However, in recent years the nation has been moving away from its religious heritage.
— Billy Graham
A godlikeness of character is the Christian's proper heritage in this earthly walk.
— Billy Graham
Spiritually, we have wandered far from the faith of our fathers . . . no nation which relegates the Bible to the background, which disregards the love of God and flouts the claims of the Man of Galilee, can long survive.
— Billy Graham
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
— Helen Keller
Each individual has a subconscious memory of the green earth and murmuring waters, and blindness and deafness cannot rob him of this gift from past generations. This inherited capacity is a sort of sixth sense- a soul sense which sees, hears, and feels, all in one.
— Helen Keller
The saga of a nation is the saga of its families written large. And whoever owns the family owns the future.
— Tony Evans
My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.
— Sonia Sotomayor
You have a heritage honor it. You have posses a testimony share it. You will face temptations withstand it. You know the truth live it.
— Thomas Monson
Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.
— Michael Novak
Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.
— John Milton