“While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a single day. ” – (Robert E. Lee)
“And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.” – (Leviticus 25:10) Note: This scripture is where America found the message inscribed upon the face of the Liberty bell. It was fifty years to the date of its use that the crack formed in the bell and it could no longer be rung or heard in the land.
“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness. —ISAIAH 5:20”
“Shmita (alternatively spelled shemitah, shemitta, or shmitah)—the sabbatical year, or seventh (sheviit)year—is a biblical prescription for and inoculation against environmental and social problems, including habitat destruction, hunger, overwork, soil-nutrient loss, unabated growth, wealth gaps, and the disconnects between people and their food and people and the Earth.” – (David Krantz)
“Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret – it leads only to evil. For those who are evil will be destroyed; but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land. (Psalm 37:8-9)