"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.   For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."
--The Trumpet Voice of Freedom: Patrick Henry of Virginia, p.   iii.   

"The Bible.   ..   is a book worth more than all the other books that were ever printed."
--Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, p.   402.   

"By conveying the Bible to people thus circumstanced, we certainly do them a most interesting kindness.   We thereby enable them to learn that man was originally created and placed in a state of happiness, but, becoming disobedient, was subjected to the degradation and evils which he and his posterity have since experienced.   

"The Bible will also inform them that our gracious Creator has provided for us a Redeemer , in whom all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; that this Redeemer has made atonement "for the sins of the whole world," and thereby reconciling the Divine justice with the Divine mercy has opened a way for our redemption and salvation; and that these inestimable benefits are of the free gift and grace of God, not of our deserving, nor in our power to deserve."
--In God We Trust — The Religious Beliefs and Ideas of the American Founding Fathers, p.   379.