John Jay
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Great Quotes By: JOHN JAY |
Letter to his
wife, Sally Jay, 20 April 1794:
God's will be done; to him I resign—in
him I confide. Do the like. Any other philosophy applicable
to this occasion is delusive. Away with it. |
Letter to Rev. Uzal Ogden, 14 February 1796:
I have long been of opinion that the
evidence of the truth of Christianity requires only to be
carefully examined to produce conviction in candid minds. |
Jay to Jedidiah Morse, 28 Feb 1797:
Providence has given to our
people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as
the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and
prefer Christians for their rulers.
It is to be regretted, but so I believe the fact
to be, that except the Bible there is not a true history in the
world. Whatever may be the virtue, discernment, and industry of the
writers, I am persuaded that truth and error (though in different
degrees) will imperceptibly become and remain mixed and blended
until they shall be separated forever by the great and last refining
fire. |
Jay to Jedidiah Morse, 16 August 1809:
A proper history of the United
States would have much to recommend it: in some respects it would be
… unlike all others; it would develop the great plan of
Providence, for causing this extensive part of our world to be
discovered, and these "uttermost parts of the earth" to be
gradually filled with civilized and Christian people and
nations.… The historian, in the course of the work, is never to
lose sight of that great plan. |
Selected by Dr. Alan Snyder 
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