WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 28 Oct 2026 05:57:18 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Winthrop, John – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Winthrop, John -- “A Modell of Christian Charity” (1630) https://wist.info/winthrop-john/5180/ https://wist.info/winthrop-john/5180/#respond Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:47:25 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=5180 For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Soe that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.


John Winthrop (1588–1649) English Puritan, politician
“A Modell of Christian Charity” (1630)

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