To know love is to know pain because over all love there stands written,’Till death us do part.’ But God promises reunion. We shall be ‘together’. They will not come to us but we shall go to them. 2Sam 12:23. Donald MacLeod, A Faith to Live By.
Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless. - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) (Quoted in Rick Warren's _The Purpose Driven Life_ [2002], Chapter 1)
Tuesday, 31 January 2017
Monday, 30 January 2017
Quotes for 31 Jan 17
Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science - he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God. - Abraham Kuyper
When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad. ―D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Sunday, 29 January 2017
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.- Abraham Lincoln, 1809 - 1865
He was poor, that he might make us rich.
He was born of a virgin that we might be born of God.
He took our flesh, that he might give us His Spirit.
He lay in the manger, that we may lie in paradise.
He came down from heaven, that he might bring us to heaven....
That the ancient of Days should be born.
that he who thunders in the heavens should cry in the cradle....
that he who rules the stars should suck the breast;
that a virgin should conceive;
that Christ should be made of a woman, and of that woman which himself made,
that the branch should bear the vine,
that the mother should be younger than the child she bare,
and the child in the womb bigger than the mother;
that the human nature should not be God, yet one with God
Christ taking flesh is a mystery we shall never fully understand till we come to heaven- Thomas Watson
He was poor, that he might make us rich.
He was born of a virgin that we might be born of God.
He took our flesh, that he might give us His Spirit.
He lay in the manger, that we may lie in paradise.
He came down from heaven, that he might bring us to heaven....
That the ancient of Days should be born.
that he who thunders in the heavens should cry in the cradle....
that he who rules the stars should suck the breast;
that a virgin should conceive;
that Christ should be made of a woman, and of that woman which himself made,
that the branch should bear the vine,
that the mother should be younger than the child she bare,
and the child in the womb bigger than the mother;
that the human nature should not be God, yet one with God
Christ taking flesh is a mystery we shall never fully understand till we come to heaven- Thomas Watson
Thursday, 26 January 2017
I'm back!
It has been a long time since I was active here but the arrival a new member has wakened me from my slumbers,or to be more accurate from my depression induced inactivity. Enjoy.
In the course of my life I have developed five little democratic questions. If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: “What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?” If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.- Tony Benn
A Nation ... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry and a common dislike of their neighbours. - Karl Deutsch, Nationality and Its Alternatives, 1969
In the course of my life I have developed five little democratic questions. If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: “What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?” If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.- Tony Benn
A Nation ... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry and a common dislike of their neighbours. - Karl Deutsch, Nationality and Its Alternatives, 1969
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