A woman saying she can have an abortion as she has a right to do with her body what she wants, is speaking nonsense. What is developing in her womb is not her body, this is a human being with unique information from mother & father. Abortion is child sacrifice to god of self. - Ken Ham @aigkenham
"Because men and women are equal (by creation and in Christ), there can be no question of the inferiority of either to the other. But because they are complementary, there can be no question of the identity of one with the other. Further, this double truth throws light on male-female relationships and roles. Because they have been created by God with equal dignity, men and women must respect, love, serve, and not despise one another. Because they have been created complementary to each other, men and women must recognise their differences and not try to eliminate them or usurp one another's distinctives." John Stott
Common law is common right. -. Edward Coke, as quoted by William Penn at his trial.
Thursday 31 January 2019
Quotes 31 Jan
An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. T. B. Macaulay, 1837
Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. -- Lord Macaulay
No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right. --T. B. Macaulay, _Hallam_, 1828 (Edinburgh Review, Sept.)
If we were to prophesy that in the year 1930 a population of fifty millions, better fed, clad, and lodged than the English of our time, will cover these islands, that Sussex and Huntingdonshire will be wealthier than the wealthiest parts of the West Riding of Yorkshire now are, that cultivation, rich as that of a flower-garden, will be carried up to the very tops of Ben Nevis and Helvellyn, that machines constructed on principles yet undiscovered, will be in every house, that there will be no highways but railroads, no travelling but by steam, that our debt, vast as it seems to us, will appear to our great-grandchildren a trifling incumbrance, which might easily be paid off in a year or two, many people would think us insane. --T.B. Macaulay, _Southey's Colloquies on Society_, 1830
Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. -- Lord Macaulay
No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right. --T. B. Macaulay, _Hallam_, 1828 (Edinburgh Review, Sept.)
If we were to prophesy that in the year 1930 a population of fifty millions, better fed, clad, and lodged than the English of our time, will cover these islands, that Sussex and Huntingdonshire will be wealthier than the wealthiest parts of the West Riding of Yorkshire now are, that cultivation, rich as that of a flower-garden, will be carried up to the very tops of Ben Nevis and Helvellyn, that machines constructed on principles yet undiscovered, will be in every house, that there will be no highways but railroads, no travelling but by steam, that our debt, vast as it seems to us, will appear to our great-grandchildren a trifling incumbrance, which might easily be paid off in a year or two, many people would think us insane. --T.B. Macaulay, _Southey's Colloquies on Society_, 1830
In yon strait path a thousand
May well be stopped by three.
Lord Macaulay Horatius
Wednesday 30 January 2019
Quotes 30 Jan
We seek the truth and will endure the consequences. ---Charles Seymour (1885-1963) in James B. Simpson (ed.) _Simpson's Contemporary Quotations_ (1988) p. 115
Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.- Timothy Keller@timkellernyc
Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand
and what to stand for--because unless we stand for
something, we shall fall for anything.
--Peter Marshall (1902-1949)
(Senate chaplain, in a prayer offered at the
opening of the session; April 18, 1947.)
https://www.bartleby.com/73/106.html
“Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, who knowest our necessities before we ask, and our ignorance in asking; We beseech thee to have compassion upon our infirmities; and those things which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask, vouchsafe to give us, for the worthiness of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord.” - Thomas Cranmer, collect
Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.- Timothy Keller@timkellernyc
Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand
and what to stand for--because unless we stand for
something, we shall fall for anything.
--Peter Marshall (1902-1949)
(Senate chaplain, in a prayer offered at the
opening of the session; April 18, 1947.)
https://www.bartleby.com/73/106.html
“Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, who knowest our necessities before we ask, and our ignorance in asking; We beseech thee to have compassion upon our infirmities; and those things which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask, vouchsafe to give us, for the worthiness of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord.” - Thomas Cranmer, collect
Monday 28 January 2019
HB Thomas Paine 29 Jan 1737
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice. Thomas Paine The Rights of Man (1792)
Toleration is not the *opposite* of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it. The one is the pope, armed with fire and faggot, and the other is the pope selling or granting indulgences.
Thomas Paine, _Rights of Man_
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.-- Thomas Paine
Though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.--Thomas Paine,The American Crisis, #1, December 23, 1776.
War is the common harvest of all those who participate in the division and expenditure of public money, in all countries. It is the art of *conquering at home:* the object of it is an increase of revenue; and as revenue cannot be increased without taxes, a pretence must be made for expenditures. In reviewing the history of the English government, its wars, and taxes, an observer, not blinded by prejudice, nor warped by interest would declare, that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes. --Thomas Paine, _Rights of Man_
Toleration is not the *opposite* of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it. The one is the pope, armed with fire and faggot, and the other is the pope selling or granting indulgences.
Thomas Paine, _Rights of Man_
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.-- Thomas Paine
Though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.--Thomas Paine,The American Crisis, #1, December 23, 1776.
War is the common harvest of all those who participate in the division and expenditure of public money, in all countries. It is the art of *conquering at home:* the object of it is an increase of revenue; and as revenue cannot be increased without taxes, a pretence must be made for expenditures. In reviewing the history of the English government, its wars, and taxes, an observer, not blinded by prejudice, nor warped by interest would declare, that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes. --Thomas Paine, _Rights of Man_
Sunday 27 January 2019
Quotes Jan 28
Be great in little things. Francis Xavier
Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.~ Philip Y,ancey Soul Survivor (2001)
There are no illegitimate children--only illegitimate parents. -- Leon R. Yankwich
........everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
W B Yeats The Second Coming
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations&emdash;such is a pleasure beyond compare. Kenko Yoshida
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
W B Yeats The Second Coming
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations&emdash;such is a pleasure beyond compare. Kenko Yoshida
Friday 25 January 2019
IM 1795 Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach 26 Jan 1759
An agreeable harmony for the honour of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
J S Bach's definition of music, in Derek Watson, Music Quotations, 1911
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. If heed is not paid to this, it is not true music but a diabolical bawling and twanging. J.S. Bach
There is nothing to it,. You only have to hit the right notes at the right time and the instrument plays itself.-J S Bach Of the Organ, in K Geiringer, The Bach Family, 1954
J S Bach's definition of music, in Derek Watson, Music Quotations, 1911
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. If heed is not paid to this, it is not true music but a diabolical bawling and twanging. J.S. Bach
There is nothing to it,. You only have to hit the right notes at the right time and the instrument plays itself.-J S Bach Of the Organ, in K Geiringer, The Bach Family, 1954
HB Robert Burns 25 Jan 1759
The cheerfu' supper done, wi' serious face,
They, round the ingle, form a circle wide;
The sire turns o'er, with patriarchal grace,
The big ha'-bible, ance his father's pride:
His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside,
His lyart haffets wearing thin and bare;
Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide,
He wales a portion with judicious care;
And "Let us worship God!" he says with solemn air.
They chant their artless notes in simple guise,
They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim;
Perhaps "Dundee's" wild-warbling measures rise,
Or plaintive "Martyrs," worthy of the name;
Or noble "Elgin" beets the heaven-ward flame,
The sweetest far of Scotia's holy lays:
Compar'd with these, Italian trills are tame:
The tickl'd ears no heart-felt raptures raise;
Nae unison hae they with our Creator's praise.
The priest-like father reads the sacred page,
How Abram was the friend of God on high;
Or Moses bade eternal warfare wage
With Amalek's ungracious progeny;
Or how the royal bard did groaning lie
Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire;
Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry;
Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire;
Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.
Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme,
How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed;
How He, who bore in Heaven the second name,
Had not on earth whereon to lay His head:
How His first followers and servants sped;
The precepts sage they wrote to many a land:
How he, who lone in Patmos banished,
Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand,
And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounc'd by Heaven's command.
Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King,
The saint, the father, and the husband prays:
Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing,"
That thus they all shall meet in future days,
There ever bask in uncreated rays,
No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear,
Together hymning their Creator's praise,
In such society, yet still more dear;
While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Compar'd with this, how poor Religion's pride,
In all the pomp of method, and of art;
When men display to congregations wide
Devotion's ev'ry grace, except the heart!
The Power, incens'd, the pageant will desert,
The pompous strain, the sacerdotal stole;
But haply, well-pleas'd, the language of the soul;
And in His Book of Life the inmates poor enroll.
Then homeward all take off their sev'ral way;
The youngling cottagers retire to rest:
The parent-pair their secret homage pay,
And proffer up to Heaven the warm request,
That He who stills the raven's clam'rous nest,
And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride,
Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best,
For them and for their little ones provide;
But chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside.
From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs,
That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad:
Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,
"An honest man's the noblest work of God;"
And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road,
The cottage leaves the palace far behind;
What is a lordling's pomp? a cumbrous load,
Disguising oft the wretch of human kind,
Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refin'd!
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent,
Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil
Be blestwith health, and peace, and sweet content!
And O! may Heaven their simple lives prevent
From luxury's contagion, weak and vile!
Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent,
A virtuous populace may rise the while,
And stand a wall of fire around their much-lov'd isle.
Robert Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night
They, round the ingle, form a circle wide;
The sire turns o'er, with patriarchal grace,
The big ha'-bible, ance his father's pride:
His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside,
His lyart haffets wearing thin and bare;
Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide,
He wales a portion with judicious care;
And "Let us worship God!" he says with solemn air.
They chant their artless notes in simple guise,
They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim;
Perhaps "Dundee's" wild-warbling measures rise,
Or plaintive "Martyrs," worthy of the name;
Or noble "Elgin" beets the heaven-ward flame,
The sweetest far of Scotia's holy lays:
Compar'd with these, Italian trills are tame:
The tickl'd ears no heart-felt raptures raise;
Nae unison hae they with our Creator's praise.
The priest-like father reads the sacred page,
How Abram was the friend of God on high;
Or Moses bade eternal warfare wage
With Amalek's ungracious progeny;
Or how the royal bard did groaning lie
Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire;
Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry;
Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire;
Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.
Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme,
How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed;
How He, who bore in Heaven the second name,
Had not on earth whereon to lay His head:
How His first followers and servants sped;
The precepts sage they wrote to many a land:
How he, who lone in Patmos banished,
Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand,
And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounc'd by Heaven's command.
Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King,
The saint, the father, and the husband prays:
Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing,"
That thus they all shall meet in future days,
There ever bask in uncreated rays,
No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear,
Together hymning their Creator's praise,
In such society, yet still more dear;
While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Compar'd with this, how poor Religion's pride,
In all the pomp of method, and of art;
When men display to congregations wide
Devotion's ev'ry grace, except the heart!
The Power, incens'd, the pageant will desert,
The pompous strain, the sacerdotal stole;
But haply, well-pleas'd, the language of the soul;
And in His Book of Life the inmates poor enroll.
Then homeward all take off their sev'ral way;
The youngling cottagers retire to rest:
The parent-pair their secret homage pay,
And proffer up to Heaven the warm request,
That He who stills the raven's clam'rous nest,
And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride,
Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best,
For them and for their little ones provide;
But chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside.
From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs,
That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad:
Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,
"An honest man's the noblest work of God;"
And certes, in fair virtue's heavenly road,
The cottage leaves the palace far behind;
What is a lordling's pomp? a cumbrous load,
Disguising oft the wretch of human kind,
Studied in arts of hell, in wickedness refin'd!
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent,
Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil
Be blestwith health, and peace, and sweet content!
And O! may Heaven their simple lives prevent
From luxury's contagion, weak and vile!
Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent,
A virtuous populace may rise the while,
And stand a wall of fire around their much-lov'd isle.
Robert Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night
Wednesday 23 January 2019
IM Winston Churchill 24 Jan 1965
As a student I saw his state funeral procession on its way to St Pauls.
Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful ~ Winston Churchill 1874-1965
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. - Winston Churchill, 1874 - 1965
To have had an intense antagonism with an honoured friend on a supreme issue, without losing either his friendship or comprehension, has in it some enduring elements of comfort as one looks back along the lengthening, fading track of life. -- -- Winston Churchill, "John Morley" _Great Contemporaries_, 1937
In time of war, when truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies.-- Winston Churchill, remark at Teheran, 1943.
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.- Winston Churchill, 1874 - 1965
Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful ~ Winston Churchill 1874-1965
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. - Winston Churchill, 1874 - 1965
To have had an intense antagonism with an honoured friend on a supreme issue, without losing either his friendship or comprehension, has in it some enduring elements of comfort as one looks back along the lengthening, fading track of life. -- -- Winston Churchill, "John Morley" _Great Contemporaries_, 1937
In time of war, when truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies.-- Winston Churchill, remark at Teheran, 1943.
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.- Winston Churchill, 1874 - 1965
Tuesday 22 January 2019
Quotes 23 Jan
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter, - but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! William Pitt
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. --William Pitt to the House of Commons (18/11/1783)
The strength of that heretic (John Calvin) consisted in this, that money never had the slightest charm for him. If I had such servants my dominion would extend from sea to sea. -- Pope Pius IV (1559-1565)
Communism...is absolutely contrary to the natural law itself, and, if once adopted, would utterly destroy the rights, property, and possessions of all men, and even society itself. --PPius IX, _Qui Pluribus_, 1846
The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.- Margaret Thatcher@MrsMThatcher
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. --William Pitt to the House of Commons (18/11/1783)
The strength of that heretic (John Calvin) consisted in this, that money never had the slightest charm for him. If I had such servants my dominion would extend from sea to sea. -- Pope Pius IV (1559-1565)
Communism...is absolutely contrary to the natural law itself, and, if once adopted, would utterly destroy the rights, property, and possessions of all men, and even society itself. --PPius IX, _Qui Pluribus_, 1846
The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.- Margaret Thatcher@MrsMThatcher
Monday 21 January 2019
HB Francis Bacon. 22 Jan 1561
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.- Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. Of Studies.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. Of Studies.
Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns on water, or but writes in dust. -- Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. Of Studies.
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.-- Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. Of Truth.
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.-Francis Bacon. 1561-1626 Of Youth and Age.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. Of Studies.
Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns on water, or but writes in dust. -- Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. Of Studies.
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.-- Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. Of Truth.
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.-Francis Bacon. 1561-1626 Of Youth and Age.
Sunday 20 January 2019
HB Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson 21 Jan 1824-1863)
Duty is ours; consequences are God's. GENERAL STONEWALL JACKSON
Captain Smith:
General, how is it that you can keep so serene, stay so utterly insensible with the storm, the shells and bullets running about your head?
General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson: Captain Smith, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself with that, but to be always ready whenever it may overtake me. That's the way all men should live, then all men would be equally brave.(Dialogue from the film _Gods and Generals_ [2003], screenplay by Ronald F. Maxwell)
Friday 18 January 2019
Quotes 19 Jan
Gratitude is a very rare thing. If any of you try
to do good for the sake of getting gratitude, you
will find it one of the most profitless trades in
the world. If you can do good, expecting to be abused for it,
you will get your reward; but if you do good, with
an expectation of gratitude in return, you will be
bitterly disappointed. --Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
_Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 51 [1905
One can give without loving, but one cannot love
without giving. --Amy Carmichael (1867-1951)
(In Elisabeth Elliot's _A Chance to Die: The
Life And Legacy Of Amy Carmichael_ [1970])
The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.- Margaret Thatcher@MrsMThatcher
to do good for the sake of getting gratitude, you
will find it one of the most profitless trades in
the world. If you can do good, expecting to be abused for it,
you will get your reward; but if you do good, with
an expectation of gratitude in return, you will be
bitterly disappointed. --Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
_Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 51 [1905
One can give without loving, but one cannot love
without giving. --Amy Carmichael (1867-1951)
(In Elisabeth Elliot's _A Chance to Die: The
Life And Legacy Of Amy Carmichael_ [1970])
The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.- Margaret Thatcher@MrsMThatcher
Thursday 17 January 2019
Quotes 18 Jan HB Daniel Webster. 1782
I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity. --Daniel Webster
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.-Daniel Webster. 1782-1852. Speech at the Charleston Bar Dinner, May 10, 1847. From Webster's Works. Boston. 1857. Vol. ii. p. 393.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Daniel Webster. 1782-1852. Speech, June 3, 1834. From Webster's Works. Boston. 1857. Vol. iv. p. 47.
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
Daniel Webster. 1782-1852. Speech, July 25 and 27, 1846. From Webster's Works. Boston. 1857. Vol. v. p. 187.
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. --Daniel Webster
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.-Daniel Webster. 1782-1852. Speech at the Charleston Bar Dinner, May 10, 1847. From Webster's Works. Boston. 1857. Vol. ii. p. 393.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Daniel Webster. 1782-1852. Speech, June 3, 1834. From Webster's Works. Boston. 1857. Vol. iv. p. 47.
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
Daniel Webster. 1782-1852. Speech, July 25 and 27, 1846. From Webster's Works. Boston. 1857. Vol. v. p. 187.
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. --Daniel Webster
Wednesday 16 January 2019
Quotes 17 Jan HB Benjamin Franklin. 1706
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. - Benjamin Franklin
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife? Franklin, Benjamin
There are two passions which have a powerful influence on the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice.--Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.&emdash;Benjamin Franklin
Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.-Benjamin Franklin. 1706-1790. Letter to M. Leroy, 1789.
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife? Franklin, Benjamin
There are two passions which have a powerful influence on the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice.--Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.&emdash;Benjamin Franklin
Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.-Benjamin Franklin. 1706-1790. Letter to M. Leroy, 1789.
Quotes 16 Jan
When you are come to the other side of the water, and have set down your foot on the shore of glorious eternity, and look back again to the waters, a to your wearisome journey, and shall see in that clear glass of endless glory, nearer to the bottom of God's wisdom, you shall then be forced to say, I God had done otherwise with me than He hath done, I had never come to the enjoying of the crown of glory.- - Samuel Rutherford
Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life and it ought not to be. The more she is engaged in her proper duties, the less leisure will she have for it, even as an accomplishment and a recreation.- Robert Southey, Poet Laureate to. Charlotte Brontë 12 Mar 1837
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.-- Anna Sewell (1820-1878): "Black Beauty," 1877.
I am sick of shit masquerading as art. Brian Sewell on The Turner Prize, 1998, Evening Standard
We seek the truth and will endure the consequences. ---Charles Seymour (1885-1963) in James B. Simpson (ed.) _Simpson's Contemporary Quotations_ (1988) p. 115
Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life and it ought not to be. The more she is engaged in her proper duties, the less leisure will she have for it, even as an accomplishment and a recreation.- Robert Southey, Poet Laureate to. Charlotte Brontë 12 Mar 1837
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.-- Anna Sewell (1820-1878): "Black Beauty," 1877.
I am sick of shit masquerading as art. Brian Sewell on The Turner Prize, 1998, Evening Standard
We seek the truth and will endure the consequences. ---Charles Seymour (1885-1963) in James B. Simpson (ed.) _Simpson's Contemporary Quotations_ (1988) p. 115
Monday 14 January 2019
Quotes 15 Jan HB Moliere [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622)
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one. -Moliere
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive. - Jean-Baptiste Moliere (1622-1673)
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion~Jean Molière, The School for Wives : A Comedy in Five Acts (1662)
One must eat to live, and not live to eat.--Moliere [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622-1673)_L'Avare_, Act III, Scene 1
It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love. --Moliere [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622-1673) _Le Misanthrope_ [1666], Act V, Scene iv
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive. - Jean-Baptiste Moliere (1622-1673)
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion~Jean Molière, The School for Wives : A Comedy in Five Acts (1662)
One must eat to live, and not live to eat.--Moliere [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622-1673)_L'Avare_, Act III, Scene 1
It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love. --Moliere [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622-1673) _Le Misanthrope_ [1666], Act V, Scene iv
Sunday 13 January 2019
Quotes 14 Jan
Welcome, welcome, sweet and glorious cross of Christ! welcome, sweet Jesus, with thy light cross.- Samuel Rutherford
In the morning, while the dew is on the grass, let grace drop upon the soul. Let us give to God the mornings of our days and the morning of our lives. Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.- Charles H. Spurgeon
The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under but over. Do not be concerned about dying; go on living well, the dying will be right. - Catherine Booth, last word.
In the morning, while the dew is on the grass, let grace drop upon the soul. Let us give to God the mornings of our days and the morning of our lives. Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.- Charles H. Spurgeon
The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under but over. Do not be concerned about dying; go on living well, the dying will be right. - Catherine Booth, last word.
Friday 11 January 2019
HB -Edmund Burke 12 Jan 1729
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.--Edmund Burke (1729-1797) _Reflections on the Revolution in France_ [1790]
There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men.--Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, p. 249.
To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty. - Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion. --Edmund Burke. 1729-1797.Speech on the Conciliation of America. P. 123.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. - Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.--Edmund Burke to the voters of Bristol, 1774
There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men.--Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, p. 249.
To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty. - Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion. --Edmund Burke. 1729-1797.Speech on the Conciliation of America. P. 123.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. - Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.--Edmund Burke to the voters of Bristol, 1774
HB William James 11 Jan 1842
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.... William James, (1842-1910)
There are people for whom evil means only a mal-adjustment with things, a wrong correspondence of one's life with the environment. Such evil as this is curable, at least in principle, upon the natural plane… . But there are others for whom evil is no mere relation of the subject to particular outer things, but something more radical and general, a wrongness or vice in his essential nature, which no alteration of the environment, or any superficial rearrangement of the inner self, can cure, and which requires a supernatural remedy. --William James, _The Varieties of Religious Experience_
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. --- William James
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. - William James
Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it. William James
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.-- William James
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. William James
Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. ~ William James
The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have been flown for religious ideals. -William James
There are people for whom evil means only a mal-adjustment with things, a wrong correspondence of one's life with the environment. Such evil as this is curable, at least in principle, upon the natural plane… . But there are others for whom evil is no mere relation of the subject to particular outer things, but something more radical and general, a wrongness or vice in his essential nature, which no alteration of the environment, or any superficial rearrangement of the inner self, can cure, and which requires a supernatural remedy. --William James, _The Varieties of Religious Experience_
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. --- William James
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. - William James
Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it. William James
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.-- William James
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. William James
Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. ~ William James
The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have been flown for religious ideals. -William James
Wednesday 9 January 2019
Quotes Jan 10 IM John Dalberg Acton 1834
Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgements are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing.-John Dalberg Acton (1834-1902)
History must be our deliverer not only from the undue influence of other times, but from the undue influence of our own, from the tyranny of environment and the pressures of the air we breathe. Lord Acton (Cited in Eerdmans Handbook to the History of Christianity (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1977), p. 2.
In every age its [liberty's] progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food."--Lord Acton
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason. -- Lord Acton
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.John Dalberg Acton (1834-1902)
There is no worse heresy then that the office sanctifies the holder of it. -- Lord Acton
Resist your time--take a foothold outside it. --Lord Acton, MSS notes, Cambridge, late 19th century
History must be our deliverer not only from the undue influence of other times, but from the undue influence of our own, from the tyranny of environment and the pressures of the air we breathe. Lord Acton (Cited in Eerdmans Handbook to the History of Christianity (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1977), p. 2.
In every age its [liberty's] progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food."--Lord Acton
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason. -- Lord Acton
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.John Dalberg Acton (1834-1902)
There is no worse heresy then that the office sanctifies the holder of it. -- Lord Acton
Resist your time--take a foothold outside it. --Lord Acton, MSS notes, Cambridge, late 19th century
Tuesday 8 January 2019
Quotes 9 Jan
God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. --Izaak Walton (1593-1683)
That which is everybody's business is nobody's business. Izaak Walton (1593-1683)
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy. --Izaak Walton (1593-1683) _The Compleat Angler_ [1653-1655], Chapter 21
We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, 'Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.' Izaak Walton (1593-1683)
That which is everybody's business is nobody's business. Izaak Walton (1593-1683)
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy. --Izaak Walton (1593-1683) _The Compleat Angler_ [1653-1655], Chapter 21
We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, 'Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.' Izaak Walton (1593-1683)
IM Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully and Pete Fleming 8 Jan 1956
The man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all... Jim Elliot (1927-1956)
Rest in this-it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call, or whatever you want to call it. It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond, or what have you... The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will be the ultimate Word from God.- Jim Elliot
\Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on Earth! I care not if I never raise my voice again for Him, if only I may love Him, please Him. Mayhap in mercy He shall give me a host of children that I may lead them through the vast star fields to explore His delicacies whose finger ends set them to burning. But if not, if only I may see Him, touch His garments, smile into His eyes -- ah then, not stars nor children shall matter, only Himself. Jim Elliot (1927-1956)
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.-- Jim Elliot
Unwillingness to accept God's "way of escape" from temptation frightens me what a rebel yet resides within. --Jim Elliot
Rest in this-it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call, or whatever you want to call it. It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond, or what have you... The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will be the ultimate Word from God.- Jim Elliot
\Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on Earth! I care not if I never raise my voice again for Him, if only I may love Him, please Him. Mayhap in mercy He shall give me a host of children that I may lead them through the vast star fields to explore His delicacies whose finger ends set them to burning. But if not, if only I may see Him, touch His garments, smile into His eyes -- ah then, not stars nor children shall matter, only Himself. Jim Elliot (1927-1956)
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.-- Jim Elliot
Unwillingness to accept God's "way of escape" from temptation frightens me what a rebel yet resides within. --Jim Elliot
Sunday 6 January 2019
On this day 7 Jan 1618 Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.-- Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. -Francis Bacon
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est. Knowledge is power. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Meditationes Sacrae, De Haeresibus
The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.-Francis Bacon_New Organon_I, Aphorism 42
This delivering of knowledge in distinct and disjointed aphorisms doth leave the wit of man more free to turn and toss, and to make use of that which is so delivered to more several purposes and applications. -- Francis Bacon, _Novum Organum_, 1620
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order. Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. Of Discourse.
Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest. Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. Of Empire.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. -Francis Bacon
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est. Knowledge is power. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Meditationes Sacrae, De Haeresibus
The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.-Francis Bacon_New Organon_I, Aphorism 42
This delivering of knowledge in distinct and disjointed aphorisms doth leave the wit of man more free to turn and toss, and to make use of that which is so delivered to more several purposes and applications. -- Francis Bacon, _Novum Organum_, 1620
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order. Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. Of Discourse.
Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest. Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. Of Empire.
Friday 4 January 2019
Quotes 5 Jan IM Calvin Coolidge 1933
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.-- Calvin Coolidge
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country. --Calvin Coolidge, quoted by Cal Thomas, "Silent Cal Speaks: Why Calvin Coolidge is the Model for Conservative Leadership Today" http://www.heritage.org/Research/PoliticalPhilosophy/HL576.cfm
When Calvin Coolidge was vice president, Channing Cox, who had succeeded Coolidge as Governor of Massachusetts, came to Washington and stopped in to see him. Cox was impressed by the fact that Coolidge was able to see long lists of callers every day, yet finished his work by five o'clock. Cox pointed out that he often found himself tied up with visitors until nine in the evening. "What makes the difference?" he asked.
"You talk back," Silent Cal explained. - Bits & Pieces, October 14,1993
Men do not make laws. They do but discover them. Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness. You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.--Calvin Coolidge, _Have Faith in Massachusetts_ p.4
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country. --Calvin Coolidge, quoted by Cal Thomas, "Silent Cal Speaks: Why Calvin Coolidge is the Model for Conservative Leadership Today" http://www.heritage.org/Research/PoliticalPhilosophy/HL576.cfm
When Calvin Coolidge was vice president, Channing Cox, who had succeeded Coolidge as Governor of Massachusetts, came to Washington and stopped in to see him. Cox was impressed by the fact that Coolidge was able to see long lists of callers every day, yet finished his work by five o'clock. Cox pointed out that he often found himself tied up with visitors until nine in the evening. "What makes the difference?" he asked.
"You talk back," Silent Cal explained. - Bits & Pieces, October 14,1993
Men do not make laws. They do but discover them. Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness. You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.--Calvin Coolidge, _Have Faith in Massachusetts_ p.4
Thursday 3 January 2019
Quotes 4 Jan
You will not lay one stone upon Zion's wall, but the world and Satan will labor to cast it down again.- Samuel Rutherford
The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains, proves that he has no brains of his own...You need to read."- Spurgeon, (Sermon No. 542, Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Volume 9).
Our situation is hopeless, and we are helpless - but God has intervened.- #SinclairBFerguson
Faith never rests so calmly and peacefully as when it lays its head on the pillow of God's omnipotence.' - J.C. Ryle @JCRyle
The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains, proves that he has no brains of his own...You need to read."- Spurgeon, (Sermon No. 542, Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Volume 9).
Our situation is hopeless, and we are helpless - but God has intervened.- #SinclairBFerguson
Faith never rests so calmly and peacefully as when it lays its head on the pillow of God's omnipotence.' - J.C. Ryle @JCRyle
Wednesday 2 January 2019
HB Marcus Tullius Cicero 3 Jan 106 BC
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. -Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)"De Divinatione," bk. 2, sct. 58.
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.--Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. --Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
While there's life, there's hope.--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), _Ad Atticum
_
What is more agreeable than one's home?--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), _Ad Familiares_
The mind of each man is the man himself. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. - Cicero.
The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of being some day a commander. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
No Sane man will dance. - Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what you can do for your country. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, 63 B.C.
Without the hope of immortality no one would ever face death for his country. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) _Tusculanae Disputationes_
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.--Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. --Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
While there's life, there's hope.--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), _Ad Atticum
_
What is more agreeable than one's home?--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), _Ad Familiares_
The mind of each man is the man himself. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. - Cicero.
The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of being some day a commander. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
No Sane man will dance. - Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what you can do for your country. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, 63 B.C.
Without the hope of immortality no one would ever face death for his country. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) _Tusculanae Disputationes_
Tuesday 1 January 2019
Quotes 2 Jan
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.- Margaret Thatcher@MrsMThatcher
A thorough and clear sight of Jesus my Lord, will make me happy forevermore.Samuel Rutherford
The General ... repeated nearly the whole of Gray's Elegy .... adding, as he concluded, that he would prefer being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French tomorrow - Written of James Wolfe (1727-59) who died capturing Quebec.
A thorough and clear sight of Jesus my Lord, will make me happy forevermore.Samuel Rutherford
The General ... repeated nearly the whole of Gray's Elegy .... adding, as he concluded, that he would prefer being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French tomorrow - Written of James Wolfe (1727-59) who died capturing Quebec.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)