The state of the world today, is nothing but an appalling monument to human failure. - Martyn Lloyd-Jones
"With an elite providing the arbitrary absolutes, not just TV but the general apparatus of the mass media can be a vehicle for manipulation. There is no need for collusion or a plot. All that is needed is that the world-view of the elite and the world-view of the central news media coincide."~ Francis Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live?
I(William Carey) am in a strange land, akin, no Christian friend, large family and nothing to supply their wants ... Now all my friends are one; I rejoice, however, that he is all sufficient and can supply all my wants, spiritual and temporal ... Everything is
known to God and God cares for the nation. - William Carey letter to a friend, in John Legg, The footsteps of God, callp263
Post truth - An adjective defined as ' relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and and personal belief.' Oxford dictionary's word is the year 2016,
Somewhere someone is out to hide the truth. Find that. That is news. All the rest is merely advertisement. - Aroon Purie, editor in chief of India Today, quoted in Patrick Sookhdeo, The death of Western Christianity, p70
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