Quotes 12 Oct 17

It is a great deal better to live a holy life than to talk about it Lighthouses do not ring bells and fire a cannon to call attention to their shining-they just shine.--Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899)

A wise man, like the moon, shows only his bright side to the world. -John Churton Collins (1848-1908) _The English Review_ [April 1914],  "Some Maxims And Reflections"

Fox declared, ‘You will say that Christ saith this, and the apostles sat this: but what canst thou say? ’It cut me to the heart’ Margaret Fox recalled; ‘I saw clearly we were all wrong. So I sat down in my pew again and cried bitterly.’ He ‘opened us a book that we had never reading, nor indeed had never heard it was our duty to read in it, to wit the light of Christ in our consciences.’ - Fox, Journal 2, p. 512,; I Ross, Margaret Fell p. 11 quoted in C HILL, THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWNp. 257

Europe, in all its richness and greatness, is threatened by a false understanding of itself. This false Europe imagines itself as a fulfilment of our civilization, but in truth it will confiscate our home. It appeals to exaggerations and distortions of Europe’s authentic virtues while remaining blind to its own vices. Complacently trading in one-sided caricatures of our history, this false Europe is invincibly prejudiced against the past. Its proponents are orphans by choice, and they presume that to be an orphan—to be homeless—is a noble achievement. In this way, the false Europe praises itself as the forerunner of a universal community that is neither universal nor a community.- The Paris Statement, http://archbishopcranmer.com/paris-statement-true-false-europe/

Long as I live I’ll bless Thy Name,
My King, my God of love;
My work and joy shall be the same
In the bright world above.
Isaac Watts