Ted Cruz: ‘God Is Not Done with America’

"It was from the founding of our country, America has enjoyed God's providential blessing at every stage. When 56 men signed their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor signing the Declaration of Independence, declaring war on the mightiest
army on the face of the planet, that made no sense by earthly logic. There was no way on earth this rag tag bunch of Colonies could prevail, and yet we did. When the declaration and constitution were drafted, they were drafted on the knees of the founding fathers through prayer.

If you look at the Civil War, a bloody war, a brother up against brother that spilled gallons of blood, working to expunge the original sin of this nation that was slavery, that Civil War should have ripped this country apart forever. And it was only with God's blessing that this country came back together. And World War II, standing up against the grotesque evil that was the Nazis. Again God shined his grace on this nation, and the American people rose to save the free world.

You go to the 1980s where with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II, we won the cold war without firing a shot. At every stage -- and it really is the source of my optimism today -- there are a lot of people in America who are feeling despondency, feeling despair, and the threats are great. They are as great or greater than anything we've ever faced, and yet I'm convinced, James, God is not done with America. That his blessings are still on this nation, and that the American people when the challenges are great, rise to the occasion."