Faith & Spirit Quote by Daniel Morgan

A soldier’s creed, stripped of theological ornament, reads here as both confession and campaign message. Daniel Morgan isn’t parsing doctrine; he’s staking moral jurisdiction. “The first and great cause of goodness” frames God less as a mystery than as a source of order, almost a chain of command for the soul. For an 18th-century American fighting in a revolution that had to justify itself as more than a power grab, that phrasing matters: it casts virtue as the prime mover, implying that the cause he served could be aligned with an objective moral force.

Then comes the rhetorical escalation: “Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world.” That’s not the cautious, deist-friendly Christianity you often see among elite founders. “Rebirth” turns Christ into a historical engine, suggesting renewal after collapse, a world made new. In a culture steeped in Protestant revival language, it’s also a political metaphor hiding in plain sight: revolution as regeneration, suffering as prelude to legitimacy.

The Holy Ghost arrives as “the comforter,” and the emotional temperature shifts. This is the part that feels battlefield-adjacent. Comfort is what you ask for when you’re living with fear, loss, and the moral aftertaste of violence. Morgan’s triadic structure (God, Christ, Spirit) isn’t only orthodox; it’s functional. It maps onto needs a soldier recognizes: a standard of goodness, a promise that history can start over, and a presence that steadies you when it doesn’t.