WordAddition

War = 42 = Sin

War is a sin.

W+A+R = 42 = S+I+N

“Make peace with man and war with your sins.” - Russian Proverb 
 
“If you will not fight this righteous war, then you will fail in your duty, lose your reputation, and incur sin.”
- Bhagavad Gita
 
“There was never a good war or a bad peace.” - Benjamin Franklin

Elder = 44 = Old Age

An elder is someone who is older.

E+L+D+E+R = 44 = O+L+D + A+G+E

“For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest.” - Talmud

“I want to grow old without face lifts....I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.” - Marilyn Monroe 
 
“Education is the best provision for old age.” - Aristotle

Nude = 44 = Lewd = 44 = Decadence

Nude is not always lewd or decadent - after all, we were born that way.

N+U+D+E = 44 = L+E+W+D = 44 = D+E+C+A+D+E+N+C+E

“Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.” - Ernest Hemingway 

"The difference of a painting in the nude becoming lewd
Is in the shadows." - Arthur Tugman

Deus = 49 = Lord

Deus means God in Latin.

D+E+U+S = 49 = L+O+R+D

“The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est- this is the supreme practical maxim, this the turning point of the world's History.” - Ludwig Feuerbach
 
“The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why He made so many of them.”
- Abraham Lincoln
 
“And what does God require of you? To make justice and love righteousness and walk modestly with your Lord."
- Micah 6:8

Cupid = 53 = Archer

Cupid is an archer.

C+U+P+I+D = 53 = A+R+C+H+E+R

“O innocent victims of Cupid,
Remember this terse little verse:
To let a fool kiss you is stupid,
To let a kiss fool you is worse.”
- E. Y. Harburg

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
- William Shakespeare

Texas = 69 = Mexico

When Texas was annexed by the United States in 1845, Mexico broke diplomatic relations and declared war on the United States.

T+E+X+A+S = 69 = M+E+X+I+C+O

“Let's face it. If it weren't for Tennessee, Texas wouldn't even exist. It would be Little Mexico if Davy Crockett and the boys hadn't gone down there and saved their bacon.” - Bruce Pearl 
 
“With more than 1,200 miles of border shared with Mexico, Texas is clearly at the center of the important debate about how best to secure our border, ... In this post-9/11 era, there is no such thing as homeland security without border security.” - Rick Perry

Apollo = 71 = Zeus

Apollo was the son of Zeus.

A+P+O+L+L+O = 71 = Z+E+U+S

“How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.” - John Milton

“Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.” - Aristophanes

Anoint = 73 = Sacrifice

Temple sacrifices were anointed with oil. Interestingly, a messiah is a king or priest anointed with oil.

A+N+O+I+N+T = 73 = S+A+C+R+I+F+I+C+E

“If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.”- The Bible

“And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the Lord and offered burnt offerings unto the Lord on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams and a thousand lambs with their drink offerings and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel - and did eat and drink before the Lord on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time and anointed him unto the Lord to be the chief governor - and Zadok to be priest.”
- The Bible

“Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.” - Ambrose Bierce

Gospel = 74 = Preacher

A preacher proclaims gospel (good tidings).

G+O+S+P+E+L = 74 = P+R+E+A+C+H+E+R

“To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.” - Roland Allen 
 
“Yes, I heard my people singing! - in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews - and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.” - Paul Robeson

"The Gospel Preacher" - by Benjamin Franklin

Jesus = 74 = Joshua = 74 = Messiah = 74 = Cross

Jesus is Joshua in Greek.

Joshua (Yehoshua) means "God is my salvation" in Hebrew.

A messiah (moshiach) is a king or priest anointed (smeared with holy olive oil) to serve God.

J+E+S+U+S = 74 = J+O+S+H+U+A = 74 = M+E+S+S+I+A+H = 74 = C+R+O+S+S = 74 = S+O+N + G+O+D