Einstein on Meaning of Life

  Quote by Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee

NOTE: This quote was delivered by Estes Kefauver (1903–1963), a U.S. Senator from Tennessee and Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1956, during a 1947 Senate hearing. It was later reported in Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy by Michael J. Sandel (1998), p. 243 

 General "Black Jack" Pershing:

 THE FAMILY ALTAR

September 18.

"I, even I, am the Lord; and beside Me there is no savior."

Is. 43:11.

Our hearts must fill with holy awe and reverence when hearing

these majestic words of our God. Before the mountains were

brought forth, or ever the earth and the world had been formed

by His mighty word, He was. And He always remains the Lord,

the supreme Kuler of all things in heaven and in earth. It is He

that hath made us, and not we ourselves, and we are dependent on

Him for every breath we draw. Without Him we could not live

a single moment. As His creatures we owe Him all reverence

and obedience. He can both create and destroy. We have to do

with Him, and not with some blind force in nature, for everything

that pertains to our temporal and eternal happiness. He alone

is our Savior. In Christ Jesus, His only-begotten Son made mani-

fest in the flesh, He has obtained for us redemption from sin and

death and from the wrath to come. In Him alone can we find

forgiveness for our sins, life, and salvation. Then let us give our

hearts to Him, and honor and obey Him in His holy Word. Let

us cling in abiding faith to our Lord Jesus Christ and not listen

to the great mass of unbelievers who in their wicked folly deny

that our Savior is true God, who deny that He died in our place

for our redemption, and would rather believe in "Evolution" than

in the personal and living God who made heaven and earth. Let

us take the warning words of Jesus to heart: "Fear not them

which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather

fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."

(Matt. 10:28.) He will one day in His wrath destroy all His

enemies who refused to own Him as their Lord and Savior; but

to those who loved, honored, and obeyed Him in Christ Jesus,

His Son, will He give life eternal.