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Monday 30 April 2018

Quotes 1 May 18 HB Joseph Addison 1 May 1672

 To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny. - Joseph Addison , Spectator, 8 March 1711

When all Thy mercies, O my God,
My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view, I'm lost
In wonder, love and praise.

Thy Providence my life sustained,
And all my wants redressed,
While in the silent womb I lay
And hung upon the breast.

To all my weak complaints and cries
Thy mercy lent an ear,
Ere yet my feeble thoughts had learned
To form themselves in prayer.

Unnumbered comforts to my soul
Thy tender care bestowed,
Before my infant heart conceived
From Whom those comforts flowed.

When in the slippery paths of youth
With heedless steps I ran,
Thine arm unseen conveyed me safe,
And led me up to man.

Through hidden dangers, toils, and deaths,
It gently cleared my way;
And through the pleasing snares of vice,
More to be feared than they.

O how shall words with equal warmth
The gratitude declare,
That glows within my ravished heart?
But thou canst read it there.

Thy bounteous hand with worldly bliss
Hath made my cup run o'er;
And, in a kind and faithful Friend,
Hath doubled all my store.

Ten thousand thousand precious gifts
My daily thanks employ;
Nor is the last a cheerful heart
That tastes those gifts with joy.

When worn with sickness, oft hast Thou
With health renewed my face;
And, when in sins and sorrows sunk,
Revived my soul with grace.

Through every period of my life
Thy goodness I'll pursue
And after death, in distant worlds,
The glorious theme renew.

When nature fails, and day and night
Divide Thy works no more,
My ever grateful heart, O Lord,
Thy mercy shall adore.

Through all eternity to Thee
A joyful song I'll raise;
For, oh, eternity's too short
To utter all Thy praise!
Joseph Addison 1672-1719, The Spectator, (London: August 9, 1712).

Quotes 30 Apr 18 IM Meister Eckhart 30 Apr1 1327

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.-- Meister Eckhart, c. 13th-14thC 

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. Meister Eckhart 

The less you feel and the more firmly you believe, the more praiseworthy is your faith and the more it will be esteemed and appreciated; for real faith is much more than a mere opinion of man. In it we have true knowledge: in truth, we lack nothing save true faith.... Meister Eckhart (1260?-1327?) 

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.... Meister Eckhart, Body, Mind and Spirit 

Let God operate in thee; Hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself as to whether or no He is working with nature or above nature, for His are both nature and grace. .. Meister Eckhart (1260?-1327? 

Saturday 28 April 2018

Quotes 28 Apr 18

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.--Benito Mussolini, _The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism_ (1932) Mencken

Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing above the state. -- Mussolini

Islam, however, is a religion that sees its duty and commitment to form an Islamic state. Islam came to reform society and to form a nation and government. Its mandate is the reform of the whole world . . . It cannot be without a law of jihad. While the scope of Christianity is extremely limited, that of Islam is extremely wide . . . It has laws which govern the society, economic laws and political laws. It came to organize a state, to organize a government. Once this is done, how can it remain without an army? -- the Ayatollah Morteza Mutahhari, in _Jihad: The Holy War of Islam and its Legitimacy in the Quran_, http://al-islam.org/short/jihad/1.htm

 If we look closely, we see that in Christianity there is no jihad because it has nothing at all. By which I mean that there is no Christian structure of society, no Christian legal system, and no Christian rules as to how a society is to be formed, for these to contain the laws of jihad. There is no substance in Christianity; it contains no more than a few moral teachings … Islam however is a religion that sees its duty and commitment to form an Islamic state. Islam came to reform society and to form a nation and government. Its mandate is the reform of the whole world. Such a religion cannot be indifferent. It cannot be without a law of jihad. It came to organize a state, to organize a government. Once this is done, how can it remain without an army? How can it be without a law of jihad? - (Ayatullah Morteza Mutahhari, JIHAD: the Holy War of Islam and its legitimacy in the Quran.. Translated by Mohammad Slaman Tawhidi (Tehran: Islamic Propagation Organization, 1985. http:/www.al-islam. org./jihad/short (Nov 2001).

Thursday 26 April 2018

HB Edward Gibbon 27 Apr 1737

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. -- Edward Gibbon

We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and we must win.
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) In "The Book of Success," ed. Richard Shea, 1993

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.--Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)

The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. - Edward Gibbon

Quotes 26 Apr - HB David Hume 1711

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.- David Hume (1711-1776) "Dialogs Concerning Natural Religion," 1779.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.- David Hume in F A Hayek, The Fatal Conceit.

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds. - David Hume (1711-1776) In "Wisdom of the Ages at Your Fingertips," MCR software, 1995

Tuesday 24 April 2018

Quotes 25 Apr 18

HB Oliver Cromwell, 25 Apr 1599

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
Oliver Cromwell, in To Honour God- The Spirituality of Oliver Cromwell, Michael Haykin, 1999

If the remonstrance had been rejected I would have sold all I had the next morning and never have seen England more, and I know there are many other modest men of the same resolution. - Oliver Cromwell, On the passing of the revolutionary Grand Remonstrance of November 1641 listing Parliament's grievances against King Charles I, as quoted in A History of the Rebellion by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon

I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that you call a Gentleman and is nothing else. - Oliver Cromwell Letter to Sir William Spring (September 1643)

A few honest men are better than numbers. - Oliver Cromwell Letter to Sir William Spring (September 1643)

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. - Oliver CromwellStatement before the battle of Marston Moor (July 2, 1644)

Monday 23 April 2018

Quotes 24 Apr 18

HB Arthur Wellesley 24 Apr (1769-1852)

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.-- The Duke of Wellington, when referred to as Irish 

Educate me n without religion and you make of them but clever devils. --Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852)

Publish and be damned. (when being blackmailed) --Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852)

Sparrowhawks, Ma'am. --Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852) (attrib. remark to Q. Victoria on how to remove birds from the newly built Crystal Palace)

I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.--Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852)(attrib.)

[of the British army, 1831] Ours is composed of the scum of the earth. --Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852)

I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.--Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852)
 

Sunday 22 April 2018

Quotes 23 Apr 18

To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,
Such seems your beauty still
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)_Sonnets_ [1609], Sonnet 104, line 1

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. William Shakespeare. All 's Well that Ends Well. Act iv. Sc. 3.

Tis suBstantial happiness to eat - WS, As You Like It.

Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life exempt from public haunt
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones and good in every thing.
William Shakespeare _As You Like It_, Act II, Scene 1, line 12

“Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!’-Nikita Khrushchev,
Communist leader of USSR 1956

The more intellectual portion of the population increasingly sees freedom as the right to suppress the opinions of those with whom they strongly disapprove. And the greatest freedom of all, the one that is most ardently desired, is the freedom to be protected from the consequences of one’s own improvidence and foolishness.- Theodore Dalrymple, http://www.libertylawsite.org/2018/04/19/reading-the-state-of-britain-with-roger-scruton/

Friday 20 April 2018

Quotes 21 Apr 18

We who live in this world must know the present world.We get no help here from Alexander Caesar and Muhammad if we wish to be wise. Whoever seeks this wisdom and wishes to partake in society must follow the papers, must read and understand the newspapers. -  Kasper Stieler, The pleasure and utility of newspapers, late 17th century, in The History of News, Andrew Pettegree, page 263

You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behaviour of the vast assembly of nerve cells and the associated molecules. You are nothing but a pack of neurons.- Francis Crick quoted by  Nancy Piercy, Finding Truth 107

In the 20th century secular utopian idealists presided over the extermination of a 100 million people killed for a higher good by the apostles of Darwin, Marx and Nietsche History has never produced a more efficient set of butchers. - Nancy Piercy, Finding Truth  page 96

Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself. Schopenhauer quoted in Nancy Piercy, Finding Truth page 112

William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) was Prime Minister of Great Britain four times: 1868–74, 1880–85, 1886 and 1892–94. He called the Qur’an an “accursed book” and once held it up during a session of Parliament, declaring: “So long as there is this book there will be no peace in the world.”

Thursday 19 April 2018

Quotes 20 Apr 18

"Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way." Barbara Bush

There is only one reality the natural world, and the physics is its prophet.- Dallas Willard quoted in Nancy Piercy Finding Truth Page 71

All sorts of people are fond of repeating the Christian statement that God is love but seem not to notice that the words God is love have no real meaning unless God contains at least two persons. Love is something that one person has for another person. If God was a single person, then before the world was made, he was not love . - CS Lewis, Mere Christianity in Nancy Piercy, Finding Truth  page 131

The thing everybody really wants to know is not what
the theory of relativity is, but I think what we all
really want to know is whether we're loved or not.
     --Rich Mullins (1955-1997)
      (In a concert at Wheaton, Illinois; April 11, 1997)

We who live in this world must know the present world.. e get no help here from Alexander Caesar and Muhammad if we wish to be wise. Whoever seeks this wisdom and wishes to partake in society must follow the papers, must read and understand the newspapers. -  Kasper Stieler, The pleasure and utility of newspapers, late 17th century, in T without seniorhe search for truth Andrew Pettegree, page 263

Quotes 19 Apr 18

I make you 4 promises of forgiveness:
I will not dwell on this incident.
I will not bring up this incident again and use it against you.
I will not talk to others about this incident
I will not let this incident stand between us or hinder our personal relationship.
Thabiti Anyabwile@ThabitiAnyabwile

When General Sir Douglas Haig was told over 40,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme in 1916 (the true figure was 57,470), he observed that this cannot be  considered severe in view of the numbers engaged and the length of the front attacked - War and the death of news, Martin Bell, Page 157

In many churches Christianity has been watered down
until the solution is so weak that if it were poison
it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it
would not cure anyone!
     --A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
      _I Talk Back To The Devil: Essays In Spiritual
       Perfection_ [1990]

“Repentance is like an antibiotic. You have to take it every day until you finish the course.”- Milton Jones

God has revealed himself to us in the Bible pervasively as King, not Queen, and as Father, not Mother. The second person of the Trinity is revealed as the eternal Son. The Father and the Son created man and woman in his image, and gave them together the name of the man, Adam (Genesis 5:2). God appoints all the priests in Israel to be men. The Son of God comes into the world as a man, not a woman. He chooses twelve men to be his apostles. The apostles tell the churches that all the overseers—the pastor/elders who teach and have authority (1 Timothy 2:12)—should be men; and that in the home, the head who bears special responsibility to lead, protect, and provide should be the husband (Ephesians 5:22–33). - John Piper, https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/the-frank-and-manly-mr-ryle-the-value-of-a-masculine-ministry

Tuesday 17 April 2018

Quotes 17 Apr 18

The theology of Marx drove the movement far more directly than that of the Bible... Messianic Marxism. No devout 19th-century Methodist or participant in the revival that swept Wales in 1904 to 5 would have said as Hardie did that Marxism rather than  Christianity was the greatest revolutionary ideal that has ever fire the imagination or influenced the heart of mankind. Lansbury insisted that it was in Russia that Socialists  not Christians were building the new Jerusalem.It was Beatrice Webb a lifelong athiest who openly likened Soviet communism to a spiritual power and its Russian adherence to a religious order- Labour and the Gulag.  Giles Udy Page 524

I was 28 at the time, but Being young is no excuse so being dumb coming coming coming - War and the death of news, Martin Bell, Page 49

PMS allows a woman once a month to act like men do every day.      
==Unknown, heavenly_heather,  http://www.searchquotes.com/

I have PMS and a GPS. Which means I'm a bitch and I will find you!      
== Lexi_Rose, ibid

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their
periods women behave the way men do
all the time.
--Robert Heinlein (1907—1988)
_The Cat Who Walks Through Walls_, ch. 15 [1985]

Monday 16 April 2018

Quotes 16 Apr 18

"Non-Christian presuppositions simply do not fit into what God has made, including what man is. This being so, every man is in a place of tension. Man cannot make his own universe and then live in it."~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The God Who is There.

"Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered." R.C. Sproul

Do you know the difference between a woman with PMS and a snarling Doberman pinscher? The answer is lipstick. Do you know the difference between a terrorist and a woman with PMS? You can negotiate with the terrorist. - -John Hagee

Now the British Labour Party has a Shadow Chancellor who has described Marx, Lenin and Trotsky as the most significant influences on his thought. After a failed attempt in the summer of 2016 to oust Jeremy Corbyn, the parties radical leadership has only strengthened  its control. The compulsory reselection of MPs, a direct threat to all those unwilling to embrace this new direction is being openly suggested. The long-term future may be uncertain but one thing seems clear: Labour is now returning to familiar territory Marxist socialism. - Labour and the Gulag.  Giles Udy Page

Governments including democratic governments cannot be relied upon to be truthful or even competent.- War and the death of news, Martin Bell, Page 18

Friday 13 April 2018

Quotes 14 Apr 18

"What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture—and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture."Thomas Sowell@ThomasSowell

His power likewise in maintaining his own work notwithstanding our infirmities, temptations, and enemies, is hereby displayed in the clearest light, his strength is manifested in our weakness.- John Newton @john__newton

"Dawkins wouldn't know metaphysics from Metamucil." - Dr. Edward C. Feser, Professor of philosophy, Pasadena, Loyola Marymount, Bowling Green.

God is our God to death, in death, and forever. All things in the world will fail us: friends will fail us, all comforts will fail us, life will fail us ere long. But this is an everlasting covenant which will NOT fail.’ - Richard Sibbes

Between 1917 in 1922 in the revolution and its aftermath 9 million Russians died from violence or famine provoked by the civil war. About the same number as total military fatalities on all sides in the imperialist Great War... at the height of the great carer in 1937 to 38 executions ran at over 10,000 each week. By 1953 the year of Stalin's death Soviet communism had been responsible for over 20 million deaths almost 3,000,000 of them in the Gulag. Many of the 14,000,000 to survive the camps was so emotionally or physically damaged that they never recovered-  Labour and the Gulag.  Giles Udy  Page 72

Quotes 13 Apr 18

Almighty God and Father, grant unto us because we have to go through much strife in this earth, the strength of Thy Holy Spirit in order that we may courageously go through the fire and through the water and that we may courageously go through the fire and through the water and that we may go to meet death in full confidence of thy assistance and without fear.
    Grant us also that we may bear all hatred and enmity of mankind until we have gained the last victory and that we may at last come to that blessed rest which thy only begotten son has acquired for us through his blood. Amen - A prayer by John Calvin in I shall not die but live, Douglas Taylor Page 33

Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace. —John Bunyan

Some day you will read in the papers that D. L.
Moody, of East Northfield, is dead.  Don't you
believe a word of it!  At that moment I shall be
more alive than I am now.
I was born of the flesh in 1837. I was born of the
Spirit in 1856. That which is born of the flesh may
die. That which is born of the Spirit will live
forever. --Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899)
      (In Martin H. Manser's _The Westminster
       Collection of Christian Quotations_ [2001],
      "Eternity")

“Yet as strange a good man as you are, I hope to meet you with a sounder head and better spirit in heaven”. John Flavel to someone he is arguing against.

There is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth  throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and in that way is revolutionary terrorism. - Karl Marx interview Chicago Tribune 5 January 1879 quoted in Labour and the Gulag.  Giles Udy p71

Wednesday 11 April 2018

Quotes 12 Apr 18

The woman with whom I habitually slept was torn away
from my side because she was a hindrance to my
marriage.  My heart which was deeply attached was
cut and wounded, and left a trail of blood.  She had
returned to Africa vowing that she would never go
with another man.  She left with me the natural son
I had by her.  But I was unhappy, incapable of
following a woman's example, and impatient of delay.
I was to get the girl I had proposed to only at the
end of two years.  As I was not a lover of marriage
but a slave of lust, I procured another woman, not
of course as wife.  By this liaison the disease of
my soul would be sustained and kept active, either
in full vigor or even increased, so that the habit
would be guarded and fostered until I came to the
kingdom of marriage.
     --Saint Augustine (354-430)
      _Confessions_ [397-401]; Book VI, Number 15

Perfection is what American women expect to find in their
husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.- Somerset Maugham

"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men”
-PLATO

Mors inanua vitae - Death is the gate of life - Proverb

Even in the interwar years when socialism as a political philosophy was much more clearly defined and better understood the terms socialism and communism were capable of different uses. To many socialism was considered to be the first phase and communism the higher phase of Marx's final class conflict. Lenin used them both in that sense and that was why in 1922 the new Russian nation was called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. But Marx himself had said that 'communism is not for ,us a state of affairs still to be established not an ideal to which reality will have to adjust. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of affairs' and so even among its leading proponents therefore, there was no clarity. Mostly however the terms communism and socialism were used interchangeably throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries as their respective entries in the 1929 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica show -  Labour and the Gulag.  Giles Udy Page 66

Tuesday 10 April 2018

Quotes 11 Apr 18

“In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage, can survive.”- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Letters and Papers from Prison)

William IV had ten of his numerous illegitimate children living in the palace with him under the name of Fitz-James. -  Craig Murray, Sikunder Burnes, Page 126

No nation has yet advanced without a freedom from priestcraft. - Sikunder Barnesquoted in Craig Murray, Sikunder Burnes page 134 - but the Muslims today are free from priestcraft and have not advanced.

To me it would be very astonishing if any Afghan king who had allied himself to the Sikhs  and English would be popular; it is not in the nature of things . -  Sikunder Burnes quoted in Craig Murray, Sikunder Burnes Page 329 - for king substitute Muslim country and for Sikhs any Western country

What was it that save Russia from ruin after 1917? Her adoption of British Communism ...constitutional and practicable by myself, Sidney Webb and our fellow Fabians... Marxism a British Museum export was set on its feet by Fabianism another British export. We are the spiritual fathers of modern successful communism. -George Bernard Shaw, The Times 3 August 1950 quoted in Labour and the Gulag.  Giles Udy page 65

Quotes 10 Apr 18

Chance is a nickname for Providence.--Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) _Maxims And Thoughts_ [1805]

Of ourselves we know no more about the nature of God than beetles know about the nature of humans - Zwingli

We need to know the difference between how things are, and how they ought to be, or what do we live and die for?- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-5565939/PETER-HITCHENS-did-French-hero-Arnaud-Bertrame-life-save-Christianity.html#ixzz5BtWoeIEv

“The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.” - Martin Luther

Marx's real title to greatness and certainly his greatest claim upon the gratitude of the working-class rests on his discovery of the truth that history is but the record of class struggles ....with each succeeding struggle the boundaries of human freedom have been enlarged and now that his theory is that the record of class and now the final stage of the struggle has been entered upon. It was the inspired vision of Karl Marx which first formulated as scientific facts the inevitable coming of the glorious time. Little wonder that his memory is consecrated treasure enshrined in the hearts of millions of the best men and women of all lands - Keir Hardie, Karl Marx the man and his message 1910 page 30quoted in Labour and the Gulag.  Giles Udy  Page 63

Saturday 7 April 2018

Quotes 7 Apr 18

You can never hear God speak if your mouth is running all the time. God doesn't scream, he whispers.- unknown

He who denies hell shouldn't think "he has the slightest understanding of what Jesus came into the world to say and do.- unk

Mark Twain loved to brag about his hunting and 
fishing exploits. He once spent three weeks fishing 
in the Maine woods, regardless of the fact it was 
the state's closed season for fishing. Relaxing in 
the lounge car of the train on his return journey to 
New York, his catch iced down in the baggage car, 
he looked for someone to whom he could relate 
the story of his successful holiday. The stranger 
to whom he began to boast of his sizable catch 
appeared at first unresponsive, then positively 
grim. 'By the way, who are you, sir?' inquired 
Twain airily. 'I'm the state game warden,' was 
the unwelcome response. 'Who are you?' Twain 
nearly swallowed his cigar. 'Well, to be perfectly 
truthful, warden,' he said hastily, 'I'm the biggest 
damn liar in the whole United States.' 
--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ 
edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.] 

"What should I think of my child, if I found that he limited his faith in me and hope from me to the few promises he had heard me utter! The faith that limits itself to the promises of God, seems to me to partake of the paltry character of such a faith in my child—good enough for a Pagan, but for a Christian a miserable and wretched faith. Those who rest in such a faith would feel yet more comfortable if they had God’s bond instead of His word, which they regard not as the outcome of His character but as a pledge of His honour. They try to believe in the truth of His word, but the truth of His Being they understand not. In His oath they persuade themselves that they put confidence: in himself they do not believe, for they know Him not.... George MacDonald (1824-1905), “The Higher Faith”, in Unspoken Sermons [First Series]"

As Tom Shaw told the conference 'the Russian Bolsheviks were immensely superior to our government in candour, truth and doing things in the light of day 'The Times 14 August 1920 quoted in Labour and the Gulag.  Giles Udy Page 31

Thursday 5 April 2018

Quotes 6 Apr 18

Christianity has died many times and risen again,
for it has a God who knew his way out of the grave.
     --G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
      _The Everlasting Man_ [1925]

“When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.”- Spurgeon:

All who find Christ for themselves are impelled, by the holy necessity of constraining love, to seek the salvation of others. —Andrew Bonar

Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie
A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.
     --George Herbert (1593-1633)
      _The Temple_ [1633], "The Church Porch"

A man is justified in lying to protect the honour
of a woman or to promote public policy.
--Woodrow Wilson (1856—1924)
December 1912 remark to Col. Edward House, in Thomas A Bailey
_Presidential Greatness: The Image and the Man from George
Washington to the Present_ [1966].

Wednesday 4 April 2018

Quotes 5 Apr 18

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes
every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
     --Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
      (In R. Scott Frothingham's _The Words
       And Wisdom Of Elbert Hubbard_ [2013],
      "Quotable Quotes"

But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said
when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon
him for the funeral expenses.
--Jerome K Jerome (1859—1927)
_Three Men in a Boat_, ch. 3 [1889]

Making your kids pay through the nose when
you die is often the only payback for that "tuition"
money they spent on beer.
--Bill Maher (1956-    )
      _New Rules_ [2005], "Bargain Bins"

Now, recollect there is no pain in death, the pain
is in life: when a man dies there is an end of
life's pain: death is the pain killer, not the
pain maker.
     --Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
      _Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 19 [1873]

And they shall not be afraid of destruction, no, not
when they see it coming; nor of the beasts of the
field when they set upon them, nor of men as cruel
as beasts.  Nay, at destruction and famine thou
shalt laugh.
Blessed Paul laughed at destruction when he said,
"O death!  Where is thy sting?"
 --Matthew Henry (1662-1714)
      _Commentary On The Whole Bible_ [1981], "Job 5:22"

Quotes 4 Apr 18

Remember remember however that he who scales mountain heights and reaches lofty peaks finds breathing difficult And it is especially true of the kingdom of heaven. That summits of achievement are also climaxes of anxiety acmes of conflict....the heights of attainment in the life of grace are places of awful tension - "Christ in His Suffering" Klaas Schilder Page 17

There are more fools than wise men, and even
in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
     --Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794)
      (In E. P. Mathers'
      _Maxims and Considerations_ [1926])

April 1st is the day upon which we are reminded of
what we are on the other three-hundred and sixty-four.
     --Mark Twain (1835-1910)
      (In Allan Gatt's _Here Lies Wisdom_ [2008])

And not a girl goes walking,
Along the Cotswold lanes;
But knows men's eyes in April,
Are quicker than their brains.
     --John Drinkwater (1882-1937)
      _Cotswold Love_ [1929] (song)

Better that a girl has beauty than brains because
boys see better than they think.
     --Unknown
      (In Robert Byrne's _2,548 Best Things Anybody
       Ever Said_ [2003], #557)

Monday 2 April 2018

Quotes 3 Apr 18

Jesus also stands in many a church. He stands in many an orthodox churches in which the preacher by a beautiful sermon has caused tears to fall here and there.He has described rather than prophesied. His is a church where Jesus was pictured and Christ was not proclaimed. - K Schilder, Christ Crucified, 1970 reprint Page 67

The shortness of time, the certainty of death, and the
instability of all things here induce me to turn my
thoughts from earth to heaven.
     --Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879)
      (In Tracy Quinn's _Quotable Women of the
       Twentieth Century_ [1999], "Spirituality")

"Our obligations are boundless; our love should be fervent and our repentance thorough." —Spurgeon

Lord, what fools these mortals be!
     --William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
      _A Midsummer Night's Dream_ [1595-1596];  Act 3, Scene

I enjoy vast delight in the folly of mankind; and,
God be praised, that is an inexhaustible source
of entertainment.
     --Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
      _Letter to the Countess of Mar_

Sunday 1 April 2018

Quotes 2 Apr 18

"The proper epitaph to write for a Christian believer is not a dismal and uncertain petition, 'R.I.P.' (*requiescat in pace*, 'may he rest in peace'), but a joyful and certain affirmation 'C.A.D.' ('Christ abolished death'). John Stott, 'The Message of Two Timothy' (Leicester: IVP, 2003), p.40.

Repentance is a spiritual medicine made up of six special ingredients:
1. Sight of sin
2. Sorrow for sin
3. Confession of sin
4. Shame for sin
5. Hatred for sin
6. Turning from sin
-Thomas Watson

GD: You recently labelled Steve Chalke’s message anti-Christ, yet you have also referred to Pope Benedict XVI as a ‘Christian brother’. Please explain.
David Robertson: One mocks the Bible, denies the atonement, rejects Christ’s teaching on marriage and adopts all the liberal shibboleths of our culture.  the other accepts the Bible, celebrates the atonement, endorses Christ’s teaching on marriage and challenges the liberal shibboleths of our culture. I prefer the latter- TheWeeFlea.com

Felt exceedingly in my own spirit how little we feel real grief on account of sin before God, or we would often lose our appetite for food. When parents lose a child, they often do not taste a bit  from morning to night...Should we not mourn as for an only child?
—M'Cheyne

"When you look at the Cross, what do you see? You see God’s awesome faithfulness. Nothing— not even the instinct to spare His own Son— will turn him back from keeping His word." — Sinclair B. Ferguson