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The quote, often partially cited is “I tremble for my country when reflect that God is just.” The full quote, below, sheds more light on what he was talking about (the institution of slavery) and why he, perhaps more than any other should lose sleep over his country’s role in slavery.
"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we 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. Commerce between master and slave is despotism.
16 wrz 2024 · Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever. In a warm climate, no man will labour for himself who can make another labour for him. This is so true, that of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labour.
"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever." - Thomas Jefferson
1 mar 2023 · "God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we 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.
29 sie 2017 · "Indeed I tremble for my country when reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference!"
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
