...actor Sir Michael Caine caused a furor a few weeks ago. Caine’s crime? Admitting that he had voted for Brexit. “For me,” Caine said, “it was about freedom. I’d rather be a poor master than a rich servant.” -quoted by Peter Robinson, "Michael Caine Says
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education
is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether
you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and
however early a man's training begins, it is probably
the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.-T. H. Huxley (1825-1895) _Technical Education_ [1877]
Calmly to rejoice is the lot of no man but of him who has learned to place his confidence in God alone.- John Calvin @JohnCalvinDaily
“We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour. Hence he comes to us clad in all the careless terrors of nature; he is as strange as the stars, as reckless and indifferent as the rain. He is Man, the most terrible of the beasts. That is why the old religions and the old scriptural language showed so sharp a wisdom when they spoke, not of one's duty towards humanity, but one's duty towards one's neighbour... But we have to love our neighbour because he is there—a much more alarming reason for a much more serious operation. He is the sample of humanity which is actually given to us. Precisely because he may be anybody he is everybody. He is a symbol because he is an accident.” - G K Chesterton:Heretics, "On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family"
"Do not think, believer, that your sorrows are out of God's plan; they are necessary parts of it." -Spurgeon
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