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Friday 31 August 2018

Quotes 1 Sep

In the span of a single lifetime, Europe and the Western world have become almost unrecognisable. Society is hurtling towards hell in a hand basket of moral debauchery. Christians who hold conservative views are seen as dangerous to society. - Patrick Sookhdeo, The death of Western Christianity p10.

In the western world in particular, where Christianity is marginalised and secular culture dismisses it as an ideological has been, where daily we rub shoulders with persons of other faiths and of no faith, and where within the older Protestant churches tolerating the intolerable is advocated as a requirement of justice, Versions of Christianity that care more for the experiences of life than for principles of truth will neither  strengthen churches nor glorify God  ... The well-being of Christianity worldwide for this 21st century depends, I am at convinced, on the recovery of what has historically been called catechesis- that is, the ministry of systematically teaching people in and coming into our churches the sinew-truths that Christians live by, and the faithful, practical, consistent way for Christians to live by them. J I Packer, What is the future of evangelicalism, Evangelicalism now,  Modern Reformation,  volume 17:3 2008

Thursday 30 August 2018

Quotes 31 Aug

If the Father always hears the Son, then he always hears those who, in Christ, are his sons. - Calvin, Institutes 3.20.15 p870

"In the year of Grace, 1654 On Monday, 23rd of November, –  from about half past 10 in the evening until half an hour after midnight ...  Fire ... God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, and not all the philosophers and of the learned. Certainty. Certainty. Feeling Joy. Peace. - Blaise Pascal, found sewn into the inner lining of his coat when he died. Quoted in Prayer, Timothy Keller, page 167

Repentance is not a little bowing down our heads ... but a working our hearts to such a brief as will make sin itself more odious to us then punishment. - Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed

Quotes 30 Aug

"There is one worldview which can explain the existence of the universe, its form, and the uniqueness of people--the world-view given to us in the Bible." ~ Francis Schaeffer, Whatever Happened to the Human Race

He only time in all the gospels that Jesus Christ prays to God and doesn't call him Father is on the cross, when he says, 'My God, My God, why have you forsaken me? why have you forsaken me?' - Timothy Keller, Prayer, Page 79

That we may obtain that which thou dost promise, made as to love that which thou dost command. - Collect for the 14th  Sunday after Trinity, Book of Common Prayer

Grant us to bear willingly all sorts of sickness, poverty, disgrace, suffering, and  adversity and to recognise that this is your divine will in crucifying our will. - Martin Luther, Personal prayer book, Page 32

... If you want to pray, you don't have to be anxious about whether God listen. You wouldn't even be feeling helpless and needy toward God unless he was at your side making you capable of feeling that way, leading you to think of prayer . When we feel most completely helpless, we should be more secure in the knowledge that God is with us and is listening to our prayer. -Timothy Keller. Prayer Page 129

Tuesday 28 August 2018

Quotes 29 Aug

Jonathan Edwards argues, in 'A dissertation concerning the end for which God created the world', that the only reason God would have had for creating us was not to get the cosmic love and joy of relationship (because he already had that)  but to share it. Edwards shows how it is completely consistent for a triune God who is other oriented in his very core, who seeks glory only to give it to others,to communicate happiness and delight in his own divine perfections and beauty to others. -Timothy Keller Prayer Page 68

As Augustine wrote in his great work 'On the Trinity', our ability to love other persons is just an image of the internal trinitarian love that we were created to reflect-Timothy Keller Prayer Page 68

Although ... you could rightly and properly be a severe judge over us sinners ... Now through your mercy implant in our hearts a comforting trust in your fatherly love, and let us experience the sweet and pleasant savour of a childlike certainty that we may joyfully call you Father, knowing and loving you and calling on you in every trouble. - Martin Luther, Personal prayer book, quoted in -Timothy Keller Prayer Page 71

It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. --Albert Einstein (1879-1955) (Quoted in his obituary, regarding his notorious disregard for his outward appearance.)  _New York Times_ [April 19, 1955]

Quotes 28 Aug

It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death. -  Ambrose (340-397)_De Bono Mortis_

“I do from my inmost soul detest slavery . . . and although I commune at the Lord’s table with men of all creeds, yet with a slave-holder I have no fellowship of any sort or kind. Whenever one has called upon me, I have considered it my duty to express my detestation of his wickedness, and I would as soon think of receiving a murderer into my church . . . as a man stealer” C H Spurgeon (Pike, The Life and Work of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, p. 331).

"Unless the Bible is without error, not only when it speaks of salvation matters, but also when it speaks of history and the cosmos, we have no foundation for answering questions concerning the existence of the universe and its form and the uniqueness of man. Nor do we have any moral absolutes, or certainty of salvation, and the next generation of Christians will have nothing on which to stand." ~Dr. Francis Schaeffer, APPENDIX B, The Church at the End of the Twentieth Century

Many avoid holiness to pursue happiness, not knowing that the two are one. The pursuit of happiness is a pursuit of holiness.- Desiring God @desiringGod

Sunday 26 August 2018

Quotes 27 Aug

Ignorance of death is destroying us. Death is the dark backing a
mirror needs if we are to see anything.- Saul Bellow

As a mercenary once said to me, there's nothing frightening about
death. It's the bit before. - Frederick Forsyth

Life peerage is a sort of insult, isn't it? aLook at the people who are given them. - Enoch Powell interview quoted inLike the Roman, the life of Enoch Powell by Simon Heffer Page 917

A man should tidy up after himself... We live our life in contemplation of the end. - Enoch Powell concerning why he planned his own funeral ceremonies, interview quoted in pat Like the Roman, the life of Enoch Powell by Simon Heffer P  Page 952

Saturday 25 August 2018

Quotes Aug 25

New Testament hope is the assurance of something not yet fully experienced and quite different from uncertain wishful thinking. - Reformation Study Bible

The Good Samaritan had a compassion. If two of the Samaritans had compassion, that would still be individual compassion, not collective there compassion. If the Good Samaritan  had been obliged by decree the of the Roman Emperor to assist the traveller, that  would not be compassion at all because it would be done under obligation. - Enoch Powell 1979 Hansard 967 964,quoted in Like the Roman, the life of Enoch Powell by Simon Heffer Page 824

"Cameron gave us what he promised. Changes to the EU may seem minor but they will win the referendum". - 4th February 2016 a Times a columnist. 23 June 1917 the referendum was lost.

I like Trump because he is a strong leader, prepared to stand up for his country whatever the consequences, never taking the easy option of backing down, whereas the weak Obama let everybody trample on America. I also like strong people who are not prepared to put up with troublesome neighbours or the nonsense that we have to endure, particularly the ridiculous political correctness, in our bitterly divided country.- DIARY OF AN OCTOGENARIAN - John Copeland

Thursday 23 August 2018

Quotes Aug 24

I am going to him whom my soul has love, or rather, who has loved me with an everlasting love; which is the whole ground of my consolation. - John Owen dying 23 8 1685

The righteousness of God is the design love in action, it is how that love expresses itself in bringing effective help to man in his need. -  James Philip

The reason our hope you will never let us down is that God will never let us down. His love will never give us up -John Stott

 To have subjective feeling without the subjective anchor of the cross will deprive my assurance of any stability; for I will be at the mercy of my feelings. But to have the objective truth without the subjective ministry of the Spirit will leave the cross as a theoretical truth. We need the objective demonstration of God's love at the cross poured out into our hearts by the Spirit in the present. -Christopher Ash

For me the Conservative party ceased to be the Conservative party which I knew and to whose causes my political life had been devoted. It became and in comprehensible stranger to me. -  Enoch Powell, Daily Telegraph, 1 October 1976, quoted in Like the Roman, the life of Enoch Powell by Simon Heffer Page 701

Wednesday 22 August 2018

Quotes Aug 23

"I cannot suggest to Christian people a more urgent topic than this: we should plead with God that He would display among us greater works of grace than our eyes have yet seen." Charles Spurgeon Sermon Jan. 3, 1875

“We were made not primarily that we may love God…but that God may love us, that we may become objects in which the Divine love may rest “well pleased.” To ask that God’s love should be content with us as we are is to ask that God should cease to be God.”-  C. S. Lewis@CSLewisDaily

Despite the massive and monumental misrepresentation to which I have been subjected over the past few years, the is great majority of The people in this country and agree with it- Enoch Powell 1970 quoted in Like the Roman, the life of Enoch Powell by Simon Heffer Page 563

'but Enoch did not believe in having friends in politics. He believed in causes and ideas.'was how Jonathan Aitken analysed his actions. - Aitken interview - quoted in Like the Roman, the life of Enoch Powell by Simon Heffer Page 701

Tuesday 21 August 2018

Quotes Aug 22

"The main end of a Christian man is that, having been brought with precious blood, he may live unto Christ and not unto himself." - Charles Spurgeon , Sermon Oct. 30, 1864

We uphold the capitalist free economy as a way of life, as the counterpart of the free society. It guarantees as no other can, that men shall be free to make their own choices, right or wrong, wise or foolish, to obey their own consciences, to follow their own initiatives. - Enoch Powell, Sunday Telegraph, 7 July 1963

If you want a nigger neighbour vote Labour. - 1963 election leaflet put out in Smethwick by alleged conservative supporters quoted in Like the Roman, the life of Enoch Powell by Simon Heffer Page 359 (Posted to show race relations and language in 1963)

"There is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" (1 Tim. 2:5). 
There are two gaps between God and man that need to be bridged: the metaphysical (how do you reach infinity from finitude) and the moral (how do you overcome the equally absolute opposition between holiness and sin?). Jesus overcomes both: the metaphysical gap in His Person (one Person with two natures, divine and human) and the moral gap in His sacrifice. -Donald Williams in Francis Schaeffer Studies Discussion Group.21 August2018

Monday 20 August 2018

Quotes Aug 21

"Why are they calling it Brexit and not The Great British Break Off?" - Alex Edelman

(Prayers) not prayed by people trying to understand themselves. They are not the record of people searching for the meaning of life. They were prayed by people who understood that ... God, not their feelings, was the centre ... Human experiences might provoke the prayers, but they do not conditioned them ... It is not simply a belief in God that conditions these prayers... but A doctrine of God- Eugene H Peterson Answering God page 14

There is a place for silence before God ... After we have spoken to him, while joy at God's love invades the soul. - J IPacker and Carolyn Nystrom,  Praying: fining our way through duty to delight.

Very soon the end of your life will be at hand: consider,
therefore, the state of your soul.  Today a man is here;
tomorrow he is gone. . . .
You should order your every deed and thought, as though
today were the day of your death.  Had you a good
conscience, death would hold no terrors for you.
--Thomas A' Kempis (1380-1471) _The Imitation of Christ_ [c. 1420]; Book 1, Chapter 23

Sunday 19 August 2018

Quotes Aug 20

‘If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.’ George Orwell

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks as truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.- Samuel Johnson

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. -- Soren Kierkegaard

Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one. - AJ Liebling

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties.- John Milton

Friday 17 August 2018

Quotes Aug 18

For it is not persecution alone that is to be feared. . . . The Enemy is more to be feared and to be guarded against when he creeps on us secretly; when, deceiving by the appearance of peace, he steals forward by hidden approaches, whence he has received the name of the Serpent. -- Cyprian, martyred AD 256.

"The providence of God is the unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory." What a wonder! -- J.I. Packer

Thursday 16 August 2018

Quotes Aug 17

Knowing God is a matter of personal dealing ... Knowing God is more than knowing about him; it is a matter of dealing with him as he opens up to you, and being dealt with by him ... Friends... open the hearts to each other by what they say and do... We must not lose sight of the fact let knowing God is emotional relationship, as well as intellectual and volitional one, and could not indeed be a deep relationship between persons if it were not so. - JI Packer, Knowing God

Prayer is a continuing conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.- Timothy Keller, Prayer, Page 48

We cannot look directly at the sun with our eyes. The glory of it would immediately overwhelm and destroy our sight. We have to look at it through a filter, and then we can see the great flames and colours all Of it. When we look at Jesus Christ as he is shown to in the Scriptures, we are looking at the glory of God through the filter of a human nature. - Timothy Keller, Prayer, Page 49

...there is a place for silence before God... After we have spoken to him, while joy at God's love invades the soul.- J I Packer and At Carolyn Nystrom, Praying our way through duty to delight

The Bible does not present an art of prayer, it presents the God of prayer. - Edmund P Clowney, A Biblical theology

Wednesday 15 August 2018

Quotes Aug 16

I do not think that the wireless waves I have discovered will have any practical application.
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-94), discoverer of radio wave propagation.

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. Western Union internal memo, 1876.

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876

An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?
US President Rutherford B. Hayes makes a call from Washington to Pennsylvania with Alexander Graham Bell's telephone, patented on 7 March 1876

Good enough for our transatlantic friends ... but unworthy of the attentions of practical or scientific men.
British Parliamentary Committee on Thomas Edison's electric lamp, patented in the USA on 27 January 1879.

Quotes 15 Aug

"The doctrine of justification by faith only is absolutely essential. There has never been a revival but that this has always come back into great prominence."
Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Crucial Doctrine and Revival

What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
     --Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677)
      (Quoted in Erich Fromm's
      _Psychoanalysis And Religion_ [1950], Chapter 3)

I learned his character at once from what he said
about others (a mode of judging which has never
misled me), and I made up my mind how to act.
     --Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
      _Lectures To My Students_ [1860]

We learn more in our valley experiences than on our mountaintops.
     --Charles F. Stanley (1932-    )
      _Walking With God: Quotations From The Sermons Of
       Dr. Charles F. Stanley_ [2012], "Life Principle No. 29"

Monday 13 August 2018

Quotes 14 Aug

... prayer is ultimately a verbal response of faith to a transcendent God's Word and his grace, not an inward descent to discover we are one with all things and God. -  Timothy Keller, Prayer, Page 43

"...those born of God must love one another--they cannot help it. If something of the divine nature is in me, and the divine nature is love-"God is love"- then there must be this principle of love within me." - Martyn Lloyd-Jones ,Studies in 1 John

"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with.
Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.
The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. -
John Swinton, former Chief of Staff, The New York Times, when asked to give a toast to the "free press" at the New York Press Club.

Sunday 12 August 2018

Quotes 13 Aug

I had then and at other times, the greatest delight in the holy scriptures of any book whatsoever. Oftentimes in reading it, every word seemed to touch my heart.  I felt a harmony between something in my heart, and those sweet and powerful words. I seemed often to see so much light exhibited by every sentence, and such a refreshing food communicated, that I could not get along in reading; often dwelling long on one sentence, to see the wonders contained in it; and yet almost every sentence seemed to be full of wonders. -  'Personal Narrative' in The Works of Jonathan Edwards, volume 16, Letters and Personal writings, Yale University press 1998, Page 801

 I think people have spoken much rubbish about that event
[9/11]. The poor revenging themselves on the rich! It's nothing but an
aspect of religious hatred. And that is so hard to deal with, or even
contemplate. You can deal with the poor striking out, but you can't
deal with the threat of a universal religious war.
         -- V. S. Naipaul, interview, The Times, 2002

Good communication is stimulating as black coffee,
and just as hard to sleep after.
     --Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001)
      _Gift From The Sea_ [1955], "Argonauta"

Friday 10 August 2018

Quotes 11 Aug

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.-Robert G. Ingersoll

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. --Robert G. Ingersoll

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. - Robert Green Ingersoll

"Campbell-Bannerman 'always thought more of his policy than he did of himself'. When Lloyd-George became PM, he ensured the death of the Liberal Party by reversing the order of priorities." Hattersley on DLG.

Thursday 9 August 2018

Quotes 10 Aug

When dark despair is all around
And falling tears the only sound,
Light one small flame of hope that still
You walk with us, and always will
Enfold in love ever more
All those we love, but see no more.
 Jean Holloway,commemorating those who died in Dunblane Primary School 1996

"Christians must one again become known as those who honor the whole person. The reason they speak out on moral issues should not be because their beliefs are being threatened or because they feel "offended." They should erase the word offended from their vocabulary. After all, Christians are called to share in the offense of the cross. This is not about us.
Christians must make it clear that they are speaking out because they genuinely care about people. No matter how compelling the case for a biblical ethic, people rarely change their minds on intellectual arguments alone. They are even less likely to change if all they hear is moral condemnation. People must be drawn in by a vision that attracts them by offering a more appealing, more life-affirming worldview. Christians must present biblical morality in a way that reveals the beauty of the biblical view of the human person so that people actually want it to be true. And they must back up their words with actions that treat people with genuine dignity and worth." - Nancy Pearcey, Love Thy Body

Wednesday 8 August 2018

Quotes 9 Aug

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.- John Piper says,

“Islam was never a religion of peace. Islam is the religion of fighting. No one should believe that the war that we are waging is the war of the Islamic State [Isis]. It is the war of all Muslims, but the Islamic State is spearheading it. It is the war of Muslims against infidels. Oh Muslims, go to war everywhere.” So says Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an audio message attributed to him (Hayden Smith, ‘I’ (15 May 2015).

'Allah says...I shall cast terror into the hearts of the infidels. Strike off their heads, maim them in every limb! Thus we punished them because they defied Allah and His apostle [Muhammad]. He that defies Allah and His apostle shall be sternly punished' (Sura 8: 12, Dawood tr).

Do not be concerned overmuch who is with you or against
you, but work and plan that God may be with you in all
that you do.  Keep a clean conscience, and God will
mightily defend you; for whoever enjoys the protection
of God cannot be harmed by the malice of man.
     --Thomas A' Kempis (1380-1471)
      _The Imitation Of Christ_ [c. 1420]; Book 2, Chapter 2

PRAYER the Churches banquet, Angels age,
        Gods breath in man returning to his birth,
        The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
The Christian plummet sounding heav’n and earth ;

Engine against th’ Almightie, sinner's towre,
        Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,
        The six daies world-transposing in an houre,
A kinde of tune, which all things heare and fear ;

Softnesse, and peace, and joy, and love, and blisse,
        Exalted Manna, gladnesse of the best,
        Heaven in ordinarie, man well drest,
The milkie way, the bird of Paradise,

        Church-bels beyond the stars heard, the souls bloud,
        The land of spices, something understood.
Herbert, George. The Poetical Works of George Herbert.
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1857. 61-62.

Tuesday 7 August 2018

Quotes 8 Aug

Dear God I cannot love Thee the way I want to. You are the slim crescent of a moon that I  see and my self is the earth's shadow that keeps me from seeing all the moon. What I am afraid of dear God, is that my self shadow will grow so large that it blocks the whole moon, and that I will judge myself by the shadow that is nothing. I do not know you God because I am in the way. - Flannery O'Connor, A prayer journal, 2013, p.3

This 9the full veil) is the uniform of medieval patriarchal tyranny. It victim-blames women for their beauty. Where this is enforced it symbolises violent mysogyny. I’m not advocating banning this monstrosity but I refuse to defend it. It deserves to be ridiculed. Not the women inside it.- Maajid - (Mājid) [maːʤɪd] ماجد

In our days when some politicians prostitute public
office or else ally themselves with evil forces,
they justify their wickedness on the ground that
"they did nothing against the law."
The only law for them becomes civil law, and
their individual interpretation of it; never do they
think of the moral law in their conscience, or
the Ten Commandments.
--Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979) _Way To Inner Peace_ [1955]

Quotes 7 Aug

In India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.-  Mark Twain (Samuel Clements

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.--Byron

Welcome as kindly showers to the long parched earth.--Dryden

Please do not feed the squirrels. If you feed the squirrels, they'll become overweight, and prone to disease. Their population will grow, and they'll lose their ability to forage for food on their own. They will expect you to feed them and will attack you if you don't. They'll become like little welfare recipients, and you wouldn't want to do this to them. -- Sign in Rocky Mountain National Park

Whiskey; I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it. - Robert E. Lee (1807 -  1870) 

Monday 6 August 2018

Quotes 6 Aug

You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it. Num 35:23 The verse used to justify the execution of Charles I as a 'man of blood'.Charles said that under his divine right as king no court could call him to account. Cromwell and parliament believed in a higher law.

More things are wrought by prayer than this world
dreams of.  Wherefore, let thy voice rise like a
fountain for me night and day.
     --Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
      _Idylls of the King_ [1859-1885];
      "The Passing of Arthur," Line 415

Thus say the common people that know him:
"A saint abroad, and a devil at home."
     --John Bunyan (1628-1688)
      _The Pilgrim's Progress_ [1678], Part I

Again, methinks you have great cause for questioning,
unless your holiness is uniform.  I mean, if your life is
angelic abroad and devilish at home, you must suspect
that it is at home that you are really what you are.
     --Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
      _Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 50 [1904]

Friday 3 August 2018

Quotes 4 Aug

Big Brother is watching you. --George Orwell [Eric Blair] (1903-1950) _Nineteen Eighty-Four_ [1949], Chapter 1, Section I

The three slogans of the party: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength. --George Orwell [Eric Blair] (1903-1950)_Nineteen Eighty-Four_ [1949], Chapter 1, Section I

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever. --George Orwell [Eric Blair] (1903-1950) _Nineteen Eighty-Four_ [1949], Chapter 3, Section III

THE truth is that all feeble spirits naturally live in the future, because it is featureless; it is a soft job; you can make it what you like. The next age is blank, and I can paint it freshly with my favourite colour. It requires real courage to face the past, because the past is full of facts which cannot be got over; of men certainly wiser than we, and of things done which we could not do. I know I cannot write a poem as good as 'Lycidas.' But it is always easy to say that the particular sort of poetry I can write will be the poetry of the future.-- G K Chesterton, 'George Bernard Shaw.'

Thursday 2 August 2018

Quotes 3 Aug Thomas Watson

I read of a woman whom Satan had bound (Luke 13:16) and truly he is almost in as bad a condition whom the usurer hath bound. —Thomas Watson

Afflictions add to the saints' glory. The more the diamond is cut, the more it sparkles; the heavier the saints' cross is, the heavier will be their crown. - THOMAS WATSON

If you will have the teachings of Christ, walk according to the knowledge you have already. Use your little knowledge well, and Christ will teach you more. 'If any man will do His will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of Myself.' John 7:17 -THOMAS WATSON

Oh, Christians, look to your steps! When you have prayed against sin, then watch against temptation. Such as are more excellent than others, God expects some singular thing from them. They should bring more glory to God and, by their exemplary piety, make proselytes to religion. Better fruit is expected from a vineyard than from a wild forest. - THOMAS WATSON

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.-Thomas Watson

Wednesday 1 August 2018

Quotes 2 Aug

"Followers of Jesus must be men of mercy, for they have found mercy,and mercy has found them" — C.H.S.

God doesn’t love you because of what you’re like. He loves you because of what He’s like.- Glen Scrivener @glenscrivener

The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in
Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future
events. I believe they possess this gift because
they don't wear trousers. . .
That is also why in all countries women are more
prone to utter prophecies.
--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
      _Aphorisms_ [1765-1799]

Quotes 1 Aug

The weapon of the dictator is not so much propaganda as censorship. -Terence H. Qualter (1925-    ) _Propaganda And Psychological Warfare_ [1962], "Introduction"

Soothsayers make a better living in the world than truth sayers. --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) _Aphorisms_ [1765-1799]

If you are a child of God today, then you will be a child of God tomorrow. God never adopts temporarily.- Desiring God@desiringGod

"A Christian artist, what is that? A man who paints a cover for a religious book or designs the glass window for a church? Maybe he does these things, but a Christian artist is someone who looks at reality in a deeper way than others." -- Hans Rookmaaker

'We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.'- A.W. Tozer