Words from the Parson:
"...Then his face got serious...You know, Harriet, sometimes I get the feelin' that people are beginning to be a little ashamed of religion. They seem to think there is something old-fashioned about it. In this house we wouldn't notice it. Religion is part of our everyday life. It should be because it's mah business. But there's something about religion that seems to make people uneasy nowadays. Some of them seem to think it makes them look a little ridiculous if they say they believe in God and what He stands for."
-- From Stars In My Crown, written in 1946, by Joe David Brown. In the book he recalls his minister grandfather (Josiah Grey, a Civil War veteran) and events and conversations with his beloved and much admired grandfather occurring between 1900 and 1910. Stars in My Crown was made a movie in 1950.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes...for in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith... just as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."
-- Romans 1:16
(God's own righteousness is revealed in the gospel)
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