"Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little, when we arrive safely because we have sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, Lord, when with the abundance of things we possess, we have lost our thirst for the waters of life; having fallen in love with life, we have ceased to dream of eternity; and in our efforts to build a new Earth, we have allowed our vision of the new heaven to dim. Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly, to venture on wider seas where storms will show your mastery; where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars. We ask you to push back the horizons of our hopes; and to push into the future in strength, courage, hope & love." - Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral, explorer & naval pioneer during the Elizabethan era (Golden Age)
And yet they have the guts to say that the only reasons the explorers came to the New World was their thirst for gold and land (and that America was not founded on Christian principles)... May we continue to proclaim the Truth and stand strong against the waves of historical revisionism! :)
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