Quotes 30 Nov 17

Appreciate every day that you're alive, because somewhere in the world others are struggling to survive.- @liife_quote

Aslan,” said Lucy, “you’re bigger.”
“That is because you are older, little one,” answered he.
“Not because you are?”
“I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.”-C. S. Lewis - ‘Prince Caspian.’

“His (Satan’s) business is, to decry the things that Christ has spoken which are written in the word; to pretend new revelations of his own; to lead men from the written word, wherein the whole work of God and all the promises of Christ are recorded.” John Owen, The Glory of Christ(Page 257).

A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people!- J. C. Ryle

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.- Charles Peguy

Quotes 29 Nov 17

Don't let your emotions distract you from doing what needs to be done. Control your emotions or your emotions will control you.- @liife_quote

How oft have sin and Satan strove
To rend my soul from Thee, my God!
But everlasting is Thy love,
And Jesus seals it with His blood.
~Isaac Watts~

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. -Charles Dickens

The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues--but to be seen in our lives.-- J. C. Ryle

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.- - Charles Peguy

Quotes 28 Nov 17

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing
for the future. --Antoine de Rivarol (1753-1801)

Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances--but on the state of the heart.- J. C. Ryle

"If you heartily praise God, you shall rejoice in him, and he will show you more of himself, of his glory and love, that you may still have greater cause of praise." ~Jonathan Edwards, Nov 7, 1734

“Sex chromosome pairs ‘XY’ and ‘XX’ are genetic determinants of sex, male and female, respectively. They are not genetic markers of a disordered body or birth defect. Human sexuality is binary by design with the purpose being the reproduction of our species. This principle is self-evident.” American College of Paediatricians, June 2016 in http://www.melaniephillips.com/the-deconstruction-of-humanity/

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a
perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take
himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable,
renascent errors.- Charles Peguy

Quotes 27 Nov 17

Health is a good thing. But sickness is far better--if it leads us to God.- J. C. Ryle

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.- @JohnCalvinDaily

The devil's boots don't creak.~Scottish proverb

"No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him."— C. H. Spurgeon

Every Christian has a reason to be thankful every day: you have God now and forever as your exceeding joy.- Desiring God‏@desiringGod

Quotes 25 Nov 17

The beginning of the way to Heaven--is to feel that we are on the way to Hell.-- J. C. Ryle

"Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy down here today." -Spurgeon

There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough. It is a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice--which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.- - J.C. Ryle

“Almighty Lord, and everlasting God, vouchsafe, we beseech thee, to direct, sanctify, and govern, both our hearts and bodies, in the ways of thy laws, and in the works of thy commandments; that through thy most mighty protection, both here and ever, we may be preserved in body and soul; through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen”- Book of Common Prayer

The godly man delighted to allow his lusts to reign, but now he delights to see them God's captives & to place them under His feet~Edwards.

Quites 24 Nov 17

God has wisely linked together our comfort--and our increase in holiness.- J.C. Ryle

"I don't pretend to understand women's little quirks.
Just one thing I know for sure, Chicks Dig Jerks. Ow!" - Bill Hicks

"In my Father's house are many mansions:
 if it were not so, I would have told you.
 I go to prepare a place for you."
       --John 14:2 KJV
Perhaps you're familiar with this verse from the
King James Version . . . . It's among the most
precious verses in the Bible about heaven; but
modern translations have replaced the word
"mansions" with "rooms" or "dwelling places."
I'm not happy that my heavenly accommodations
have been downgraded from a mansion to a room.
What gives?"
Well, our English word "mansion" comes from a Latin
word meaning "to live or dwell."  Originally the
word simply meant "a place to live or a place to
dwell."  When William Tyndale first translated the
Bible into English, he used the word "manse" or
"mansion";  it simply meant "dwelling place."
From there it came into our early English versions.
That was also the meaning of the Greek word used by
John, and it fits the analogy Jesus is using about
His Father's house.
But that doesn't mean we're all going to be confined
to one-room efficiencies in some sort of heavenly
tenement house throughout eternity.  I actually
think the word "mansion" is a pretty good one.
After all, the smallest house in heaven is going to
be a million times better than the grandest palace
on earth, so I don't think the idea of "mansion"
is inappropriate.
I'm going to stick to my old King James terminology
here.  In my Father's house are many mansions. -Robert J. Morgan (1952-    )_100 Bible Verses Everyone Should Know_ [2010], "#22: John 14:2"

My dear friend, when grief presses you to the dust, worship there! - Charles Spurgeon

"In the Word, we hear God's voice. In the Sacrament, we have his kiss." (Thomas Watson)

Quotes 23 Nov 17

The children of God all have a cross to bear.- J.C. Ryle

Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all others, and if need be, against all others. --Romain Rolland (1866-1944) (In William Safire and Leonard _Words of Wisdom_ [1989], "Beliefs") 

When you're waiting for God's timing, you're waiting for His very best.--Charles F. Stanley (1932-    )   _Everyday Inspiration_ [2015], "July 25" 

Man by grace is made like unto God, and a partaker in His divinity, and . . . without grace he is like unto the brute beasts. --Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) _Pensees_ [1670], Number 434 

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. -Saint Augustine (354-430)_The Problem of Free Choice_ [c. 390], "A Mind Is The Slave of Passion Through Its Own Choice"

22 Nov 17 Quotes

A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.- J.C. Ryle

Pain puts me on my knees where pleasure does not. -- C. S. Lewis

“That which begins not with prayer seldom ends with comfort.” -John Flavel

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!--Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) _The New Colossus_ [1886]

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.--Billy Sunday (1862-1935) (In Martin H. Manser's _The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations_ [2001], "Hell")

Quotes 21 Nov 17

We know nothing of humility by nature--for we are all born proud!- J.C. Ryle

No one can stop a ticking clock, but the great ones always find a way to slow it down. --"Sonny Weaver, Jr." (Kevin Costner)(In the film _Draft Day_ [2014], written by Scott Rothman and Rajiv Joseph)
     
Video games are bad for you?  That's what they said about rock and roll. --Shigeru Miyamoto (1952-    )

There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route.  And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity. --Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904-1996)_My Odyssey_ [1971]

"A sanctified heart is better than a silver tongue... Prayer is a matter more of the heart than the head. In prayer it is not so much fluency that prevails, as fervency; nor is God so much taken with the elegance of speech, as the efficacy of the Spirit. Humility is better than volubility; here the mourner is the orator; sighs and groans are the best rhetoric." Thomas Watson (1620 - 1686), in 'The Art of Divine Contentment.'

Quotes 18 Nov 17

The best of men--are men at best!- J.C. Ryle

We are those who confess, along with the Reformers, that when Scripture speaks, God speaks. —Albert Mohler

The knee-jerk bullying, victim-group sectarianism and repudiation of reason itself over transgenderism defy belief..... The reason for this existential collapse is that the relativist west has so heavily bought into the belief that reality is merely what we decide it to be. Ours has become a culture of radical subjectivity in which there is no such thing as objective truth. Everything is instead a matter of opinion and individual perception. Feelings trump facts every time. No-one’s lifestyle is to be considered wrong or inferior to anyone else’s. No judgment is to be permitted, except for the judgment that judgmentalism is wrong. What is right for me is what is right. What I declare something to be is what it is. I feel, therefore I am.- http://www.melaniephillips.com/the-deconstruction-of-humanity/

Preaching is essentially the overflow of a man's life. No amount of intellectual ability or spiritual giftedness can substitute for a life that has been overwhelmed by a personal sense of God's glory,resulting in a personal, and deepening, sense of the sinfulness of sin.-Hamilton

Longed for the influences of the divine Spirit to descend on ministers, in a special manner. And oh, I longed to be with God, to behold his glory, and to bow in his presence!- David Brainerd‏ @BrainerdQuotes

Quotes 20 Nov 17

To be indifferent to doctrine is thus but another way of saying we are indifferent to Christianity. —B.B. Warfield

The love of Christ towards His people--is a deep well which has no bottom!- J.C. Ryle

"Through faith in Christ, therefore, Christ's righteousness becomes our righteousness and all that he has becomes ours..." - Martin Luther, A sermon "Two Righteousness" Probably given in 1519

The weakness of your faith will not destroy you.
A trembling hand may receive a golden gift.- Charles Spurgeon‏ @Spurgeon

Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.- Tim Keller Wisdom‏ @DailyKeller

Quotes 17 Nov 17

’By 2015 there were more British Muslims fighting for ISIS than for the British armed forces. ‘`Douglas Murray – The Strange Death of Europe P313

Moms, even though we are far from perfect, we are God’s perfect mother for our children.- @desiringGod

“Unity among leaders is a special kind of gift to a church. It is a cause for great rejoicing.” -John Piper:  Yes. I used to think it was normal but now I know Corinth is normality and am thankful to be part of a local church where in 48 years we have been kept from division.(GJW)

"Why do we fear to preach the doctrine of predestination of saints, and of the genuine grace of God? Is there any cause to dread, lest man should be induced to despair of his condition, when his hope is demonstrated to be founded on God alone? Is there not much stronger reason for him to despair, if, in pride and unbelief, he founds his hope of salvation on himself?" - Thomas Bradwardine (d. 1349): (Webb Le Bas, Life of Wiclif, London (1832), 77).

When it comes to church membership, the line of exclusion means to provoke the desire for inclusion. It's a closed door, but it's a glass door that people can see through and open with the mere push of repentance and faith.- Jonathan Leeman (@JonathanDLeeman)

Quotes 16 Nov 17

“Not only has Saudi Arabia not made one Syrian into a Saudi citizen, it has also refused to allow the use of 100,000 air-conditioned tents there are erected for only five days a year by pilgrims and the Hajj. At the height of the 2015 crisis the single offer the Saudis did make as to build 200 new mosques in Germany for the benefit of the country’s new arrivals”Douglas Murray – The Strange Death of Europe page 316

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. -Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) _New York Times_ [May 12, 1968]

I believe that love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve. --Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)(In Edmond and Jules de Goncourt's _Pages From The Goncourt Journals_ [1962];"Saturday, 2 March 1872)

Time, the subtle thief of youth.--John Milton (1608-1_On His Having Arrived at the Age
of Twenty-three_ [1631]

“The worst cloud of all is deep depression of spirit' and “to be forsaken of God.””
“The worst ill in the world is a depressed spirit.”
“Of all things in the world to be, dreaded despair is the chief.”
“Depression is . . . the shadow of death.”
“Depression is . . . my horror of great darkness.”
“depression of spirit” is “deep” when “accompanied with the loss of the light of God’s countenance.”- Charles Spurgeon

Quotes 14 Nov 17

"God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There’s no such thing." ~C. S. Lewis

The most illustrious lamps of nature burning in the universe cannot show forth the pure glory of their Author. - John Calvin‏ @JohnCalvinDaily

In disappointments and discouragements, we are tempted to forget that God is God and that God is good.  - Ligon Duncan‏@LigonDuncan

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.--Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)  _Gleanings Among The Sheaves_ [1869], "Sorrow's Disciplin

Satan says, “Focus on your sin, and it will set you free.” God says, “Focus on my Son, and he will set you free.”- Desiring God‏@desiringGod

Quotes Nov 15

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.-Marie Curie (1867-1934)(In Melvin A. Benarde's_Our Precarious Habitat_ [1970])

"I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death, still to be a soul winner, still to be a true herald of the cross, and testify the name of Jesus to the last hour.~Charles H. Spurgeon

If you can’t hear God’s voice, try turning off your phone, getting by yourself, and opening your Bible.- Desiring God @desiringGod

Social justice, it should be noted, isn't either one.- Wilson‏@douglaswils

"For Paul, reconciliation stats with God, who reaches out in grace; it does not begin with the offending party reaching out for peace and forgiveness." ~ @mbird12

Quotes 13 Nov 17

Does the free secularised star exist on the basis of normative presuppositions that it itself cannot guarantee? - Ernste Bockenforde, 1967 quoted in - Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe, p 260

"Passivity, which quietists think liberates the Spirit, actually resists and quenches him. Souls that cultivate passivity do not thrive, but waste away. The Christian’s motto should not be ‘Let go and let God’ but ‘Trust God and get going!’ " J I Packer

Trial for the Christian is like training for the athlete. It hurts but has purpose. It prepares you for glory.- @GPeacock8

"The true Christian hates sin, flees from it, fights against it, considers it his greatest plague, resents the burden of its presence, mourns when he falls under its influence, and longs to be completely delivered from it."~J.C. Ryle

Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism,
pride, hardness, and cunning.  But all those things
will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded
as high qualities, if he can make of them the means
to achieve great ends. -Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)

Quotes 11 Nov 17

“Mohammed is now the most popular boy’s name in England and Wales. The official line is so what, Britain will still remain Britain when most of the men are called Mohammed rather than Harry or Dafydd. “  -  Douglas Murray – The Strange Death of Europe

"If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear from it only an echo of our own thoughts and never the thunderclap of God's, then indeed he will not speak to us and we shall only be confirmed in our own prejudices. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behaviour."- John Stott.

The elect of God are all blinded for a time, but Christ applieth unto them his eye-salve, effectually opening their eyes.    John Flavel

“...when a man becomes a Christian, a certain power lays hold upon him and it takes him and transfers him to another kingdom.”- Martyn Lloyd-Jones‏ @D_M_LloydJones

Let us use the help of others, seeing David could not recover himself, being a prophet, but he must have a Nathan to help him, 2 Samuel 12:7.  Richard Sibbes vol 6, p41

Quotes 10 Nov 17

“When in 2007 two car bombs were left in London by a Muslim doctor in the NHS and a Muslim PhD student, the new Labour Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, said that it would be wrong to describe such attacks as Islamic terrorism because these terrorists were in fact behaving contrary to their faith. Henceforth, she said, it would be more appropriate to describe such events as anti-Islamic activity. “Douglas Murray – The Strange Death of EuropePage 153

The first historical mention of Muhammad as the prophet founder of Islam is on a coin minted in 685 in Bishapur, Persia, sixty years after his death. From this point On, there are several more mentions, on coins minted by Abd al-Malik, on epigraphy, and on papyri. Why is there no evidence of Muharnmad as prophet until60 years after his death and then suddenly several mentions? The answer is obvious: Muhammad was enthroned as the prophet founder of Islam 60 years after his death.- Jean-Jacyues Wulfer, APPLYING CODE THEORY T0 THE KORAN

n seasons of severe trial, the Christian has nothing on earth that he can trust to, and is therefore compelled to cast himself on his God alone. When his vessel is on its beam-ends, and no human deliverance can avail, he must simply and entirely trust himself to the providence and care of God. Happy storm that wrecks a man on such a rock as this!
Charles Spurgeon

'Safe? Who said anything about safe? Of course He isn't safe. But He's good.'
-Mr.Beaver, on Aslan

It is an illusion to think that if we find our one true soulmate then we will be happy and we will be fixed.- Timothy Keller‏

Quotes 9 Nov 17

… how long can a society survive once it has unmoved itself from its founding source and drive? - - Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe, p 26

It is no great matter where we are, provided we see that the Lord has placed us there, and that He is with us.- John Newton‏ @john__newton

Some people are surprised that Calvin believed that God made things attractive and delightful beyond their  necessary use. Food is not only for nourishment of our bodies but brings ‘delight and good cheer’ (III.10.2). Wine is among the benefits of God (III.10.2). Commenting on the wedding at Cana, where Christ made an abundance ‘of most excellent wine’ Calvin said, ‘It is permissible to use wine, not only for necessity, but also to make us merry’.(Comm John 2:*). He warns, however, that we must ‘keep ourselves from being so vanquished and overcome by wine’(Sermon on Eph. 6:18-21). Clothing provides protection for our bodies, but also ‘comeliness and decency’ (III.10.2). Sex is for procreation, but also ‘allows husband and wife to give each other delight’ Comm. Deut. 24:5). About Jacob’s love for Rachel, Calvin writes, “Therefore he who shall be induced to choose a wife because of her elegance or shape, will not necessarily sin’ Comm. (Gen.29:18).- David B Calhoun, Knowing God and Ourselves, p.17

“You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.” — Jonathan Edwards

Dopey is the only dwarf without a beard - Unk

Quotes 8 Nov 17

We expect everything to happen fast and with little or no inconvenience, but God often works graciously slow in us.- Desiring God‏@desiringGod

Oh that I would have been spared my slavery to illicit sex, and would have known a truer happiness as I waited for the embrace of my God.- Augustine‏ @AugustineQuots

A sanctified heart is better than a silver tongue. ~Thomas Watson

“He heals them… It is he, likewise, who heals their bodily sickness, and gives them help in all their temporal troubles. He is represented to us, as counting their sighs, putting their tears into his bottle, recording their sorrows in his book of remembrance (Psalm 61:8); and even, as being himself “touched with the feeling of their infirmities”, (Hebrews 4:15), as the head feels for the members of the body.”- John Newton

Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments--are absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritually-minded. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine--and the refiner's furnace to the gold.- J.C. Ryle

Quotes 7 Nov 17

Life in modern liberal democracies is to some extent thin or shallow and that life in modern Western Europe in particular has lost its sense of purpose.  - Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe, p 258

"Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different " - c.s. Lewis

Darkness surrounds us always: "Then, as now, there was a growing darkness and great deeds were done that were not wholly in vain". Neither optimism (this is the last war and after it all will be lovely forever) nor pessimism (this is the last war and all civilization will end), you notice. No. The darkness comes again and again and is never wholly triumphant nor wholly defeated." - Lewis quoting J. R. R. Tolkien

Love listening to our panicked politicians telling us that we need a strategy for ethical/morals.  We do...its called the 10 commandments! - David Robertson‏ @theweeflea

“It is more significant that God walked on earth than that man walked on the moon…my own life is given purpose and perspective through God who walks on this earth in Jesus. In that sense we are a visited planet!” ..“It was my experience in exploring the moon on the Apollo 15 mission that moved me to devote the rest of my life to spreading the good news of Jesus Christ.”-Apollo 15 astronaut, Colonel James Benson Irwin

Quotes 6 Nov 17

Men may refuse subjection to God as a lawgiver... yet they cannot withdraw themselves from His judgment~Jonathan Edwards.

If I was not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows.- John Newton‏ @john__newton  

“My brothers, I am condemned to death today for the doctrine of the Son of God, praise be to Him. I would never have thought that God would have given me such an honor. I feel the grace of God flowing in me more and more. It strengthens me from moment to moment, and my heart leaps within me for joy.”- Guido de Bres' parting words to his fellow prisoners as he went to be hanged as a "heretic" by the Roman Catholic authorities. de Bres is the author of Belgic Confession:

The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures.- NTWright

The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it--is often not discovered until it is down on the ground. Just so, men fall in private--long before they fall in public!- - J.C. Ryle

 

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Quotes Nov 4

 ..most branches of European Christianity have lost the confidence to prosyletise or even believe in its own message. … THE MESSAGE OF THE RELIGION HAS BECOME A FORM OF LEFT WING POLITICS DIVERSITY ACTION AND SOCIAL WELFARE PROJECTS. SUCH CHURCHES ARGUE FOR ‘OPEN BORDERS’ YEY ARE CIRCUMSPECT ABOUT QUOTING THE TEXTS THEY ONCE PREACHED AS REVEALED. - Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe, p 264

We may be witnessing the end of history as such: that is, the end of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalisation of Western liberal democracy as the fan, form of human government. Francis Fukuyama, Th End of History

St Peter's in Rome is a monument to the reformation - Tony Lane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwbNIP0ZXHc

Tertullian compares the church in his time to a mowed field; the more frequently it is cut, the more it grows.= George Whitefield (@WhitefieldG)

A Christian is the world’s Bible and some of them need revising. D. L. Moody.

Quotes Nov 3

“ In domestic affairs, I defer to Katie. Otherwise I am led by the Holy Ghost.” - Martin Luther

“To immerse oneself in popular culture for any length of time as to wallow in an almost unbearable shallowness. Was the sum of European endeavour and achievement really meant to accumulate in this?…… we look like a people who have lost the desire to inspire because we have nothing to inspire anyone with.” Douglas Murray – The Strange Death of Europe(p263)

BOLD PREDICTION: THE NEXT STEP WILL BE TO DEMAND THAT CONFEDERATE SYMBOLS BE DECLARED HATE SPEECH. We will see kids sent home from school for having Confederate flags on their shirts; cars with Confederate decals will be banned from certain areas; and we might see the expunging of CSA symbols from movies and books and prohibiting Confederate flags at re-enactment events, etc. History must conform to the Progressive dictate of the day.
    If that is to be--and it will--I, in turn, demand progressives stop wearing Che t-shirts. I insist they stop waving the "Palestinian" flag. I propose that we all demand that Maryland alter its flag which consists of the heraldic banner of Lord Baltimore. I find offensive the yearning for royalty and feudalism. The Union Flag must be struck from the flag of Hawaii. I find offensive this paean to colonialism. The Alabama flag has troubling similarly to the Scottish flag and might prove offensive to those of Welsh descent. Will Walmart stop selling items made in China, an offensive
state if ever there was one? Will there be a ban on Mexican flags considering the horrid history of human rights in that country? What about the Japanese flag? Why should Japan be able to keep the flag under which millions of Chinese, Malays, Filipinos, Koreans, Pacific Islanders, Indians, and whites were tortured and murdered? I am sure we can turn this into a drinking game. -DiploMad, On Rebel Flags and Progressive Targets http://www.thediplomad.com/2015/06/on-rebel-flags-and-progressive-targets.html

"There is nothing new in theology but that which is false; only the old is true, for truth must be old, as old as God Himself."  -Spurgeon

It is a sign of growth in grace when we increase in a sense of our own unworthiness and insufficiency, and in dependence on God.- Edwards.

Quotes 2 Nov 17

“This habit of attacking the secondary symptoms of the problem rather than the primary problem has many causes. Not the least of them is that it is infinitely easier to criticise generally white skinned people, especially if they are working class, than is to criticise generally darker skinned people whatever their background. And not only is it easier, but it elevates the critic. Any criticism of Islamism or mass immigration – even criticism of terrorism and rape attacks – can be seized upon by anyone else as a demonstration of racism, xenophobia or bigotry. The accusation, however untrue, can come from anywhere and can always carry some moral taint. By contrast, anybody who criticises someone as a racist or a Nazi is somehow elevated to the position of judge and jury as an antiracist and anti-Nazi. Different standards of evidence also apply.” - Douglas Murray – The Strange Death of Europe Page 241

"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless.Not to speak is to speak.Not to act is to act." - D. Bonhoeffer

"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it." - Harry S. Truman

In the Bible there are times when in the deep slumber of the body, God has taken the souls of His servants into deeper communion with himself (e.g. Genesis 2:21, 15:12). Often, when a problem or perplexity harasses the mind and there seems no solution, after a night's rest you find the solution easy, and the problem has no further perplexity. Think of the security of the saint in sleeping or in waking, "Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flieth by day."--Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)  _The Pilgrim's Song Book_ [1940]

Night is the congenial hour of horrors, when alarms walk abroad like beasts of prey, or ghouls from among the tombs.  Our fears turn the sweet season of repose into one of dread, and though angels are abroad and fill our chambers, we dream of demons and dire visitants from hell. Blessed is that communion with God which renders us impervious to midnight frights, and horrors born of darkness. Not to be afraid is in itself an unspeakable blessing, since for every suffering which we endure from real injury, we are tormented by a thousand griefs which arise from fear only. The shadow of the Almighty removes all gloom from the shadow of night.  Once covered by the divine wing, we care not what winged terrors may fly abroad in the earth. Cunning foes lie in ambuscade, and aim the deadly haft at our hearts, but we do not fear them, and have no cause to do so. That arrow is not made which can destroy the righteous, for the Lord hath said, "No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper." In times of great danger, those who have made the Lord their refuge, and therefore have refused to use the carnal weapon, have been singularly preserved. The annals of the Quakers bear good evidence to this. Yet probably the main thought is, that from the cowardly attacks of crafty malice, those who walk by faith shall be protected, from cunning heresies they shall be preserved, and in sudden temptations they shall be secured from harm. --C.H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) _Spurgeon's Treasury of David_ [1984], "Psalm 91:5"

Quotes for 1 Nov 17

3 Lies of Identity:
1. I am what I have
2. I am what I do
3. I am what other people say or think of me - Henri Nouwen‏ @HenriNouwen

“The state is fast becoming a secular church, the fount of moral legislation, and is busy imposing a uniformity of belief on its citizens as every bit as intrusive as the theocratic states of the past, where the distinction between church and state was likewise unknown.”- Alan Bekhor, Standpoint Magazine

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.—Edmund Burke (1729-1797)_Reflections on the Revolution in France_ [1790]

Show me an absurdity in Religion, [and] I will undertake to show you a hundred in Political Laws and Institutions. --Edmund Burke (1729-1797) _A Vindication of Natural Society_ [1756]

Recently, in a restaurant, four college kids saw me, and, as I was standing at the salad bar, they laughed at me openly and made grotesque faces which mocked my appearance. The carnal part of me wanted to tear into those people, rip that guy's lips off.  But the Christ in me restrained me and helped me to see with pity the condition of their hearts that caused them to mock. --Dave Roever (1946-    ) _Welcome Home, Davey_ [1986], Chapter 17 (A Vietnam vet who was horribly disfigured when a phosphorous grenade he was about to  toss exploded next to his face while on patrol in Vietnam; July 26, 1969.)