Quotes Mar 1

The more we commit sexual sin, the more we will feel we need it, the easier it will be to do it, and the harder it will be to stop.- Desiring God@desiringGod

“Render unto Caesar what is Caesars’. But if you can buy it somewhere else, stuff Caesar!”
 - me talking about UK taxes when in USA

‘I could try to express His greatness, but He is greater, or His beauty, but He is more beautiful. He is sweeter than every sweetness, brighter than every splendour, more just than all justice, stronger than all strength, gentler than all gentleness.’ - Augustine

We Africans are not children in need of western enlightenment when it comes to the church’s sexual ethics. We do not need to hear a progressive U.S. bishop lecture us about our need to “grow up.”-Dr. Jerry P. Kulah

I beseech you by the mercies of God in Christ Jesus, to take heed to yourselves, and walk closer with your God than you have in days past..O do not follow Jesus afar off!- George Whitefield@WhitefieldG

Quotes Feb 28

To win some you have to be winsome. - unknown

Man's maker was made man,
That He, ruler of the stars might nurse at his mother's breast;
That the Bread might hunger,
The Fountain thirst,
The Light sleep,
The Way be tired on its journey,
That the Truth might be accused of false witness,
The Teacher be beaten with whips,
The foundation be suspended on wood;
That Strength might grow weak;
That the Healer might be wounded;
That Life might die.
Augustine, sermons 184-229

Prayer is the key to h\Heaven, and faith is the hand that turns it.- Thomas Watson

Quotes Feb 27

"If you want to know how popular a Church is, go Sunday morning. If you want to know how popular the preacher is, go Sunday night. If you want to know how popular God is, go to the prayer meeting." (Leonard Ravenhill - @LRavenhill)

“Until the lion tells his side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”—African Proverb

Though it is the quintessence of enthusiasm, to pretend to be guided by the Spirit without the written word; yet it is every Christian's bounden duty to be guided by the Spirit in conjunction with the written word of God.- George Whitefield@WhitefieldG

All praise to Thee eternal God,
Who, clothed in garb of flesh and blood,
Dost take a manger for Thy throne,
While worlds on worlds are Thine alone.
Hallelujah!
- Martin Luther

Quotes 26 Feb

"If the peace of God be in you, what can cause you distress? You will be like those great buoys moored out at sea, which cannot sink; it matters not what storms may be raging, they always rise above all."- Charles Spurgeon

Ignorance of providence is the ultimate of all miseries; the highest blessedness lies in the knowledge of it.- John Calvin@JohnCalvinDaily

Safe Socialism? If it's safe, it's not Socialism. If it's Socialism, it's not safe. Signposts of Socialism point downhill to less freedom, less prosperity, more muddle, more failure. If we follow them to their destination, they will lead this nation into bankruptcy.- Margaret Thatcher@MrsMThatcher

Jesus did not come into the world for us: we came into the world for Jesus. - Mark Jones, Knowing Christ p, 9

Quotes 25 Feb

There is the centre ground of the Christian fight: to have the gospel of Christ’s love as our sap and food. It means being full of Scripture, ignorance of Scripture being ignorance of Christ.”-- Rejoicing in Christ by Mike Reeves

“If the Christian life is Christ, then looking to him is the great duty of the Christian life. Looking to Jesus marks the beginning of the Christian life; looking to Jesus is the end goal of the Christian life; and looking to Jesus is the daily privilege of the Christian life, which is Newton’s way of saying that we never outgrow the gospel.” (Newton on the Christian Life6

God's ultimate purpose does not concern you and me but His Son. - Ian Hamilton, IPC, 15 Feb 2019

Our greatest hindrance in the Christian life's not our lack of effort but our lack of acquaintance with our privileges in Christ. - John Owen

 "How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to righteous cause? Such fine sunny day, and have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us thousands of people awakened and stirred to action?" -Sophie Scholl, who was executed on 22 Feb in 1943 for leading student resistance against Hitler. Her last words. She was 21.

Quotes 23 Feb

'In many ways, it [the social gospel] was just Marxism in Christian clothing.' -Rick Warren

“For all our dreams, our dark and frightened imaginings of God, there is no God in heaven who is unlike Jesus…In Christ the Word, we exchange darkness for light as we think of God. For he perfectly shows us an unsurpassably desirable God, a kind God who is against all that is wrong, a God who thaws us.”- Rejoicing in Christ by Mike Reeves

“A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”- C.S. Lewis

Jesus invited us, not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage;
not to a frolic, but to a fight.  He offered us, not an
excursion, but an execution.  Our Savior said that
we would have to be ready to die to self, sin, and
the world.
     --Billy Graham (1918-2018)
      (In Martin H. Manser's _The Westminster Collection
       of Christian Quotations_ [2001], "Discipleship")

Beer brings freedom
One brings health
Cognac brings power
Water brings bacteria- unk

Quotes 22 Feb

“Perhaps I should be clearer: it is not that we look, get some sense of what Christ is like, and then go away and strain to make ourselves similar; we become like him through the very looking. The very sight of him is a transforming thing. For now, contemplating him by faith, we begin to be transformed into his likeness (2 Cor 3: 18), but so potent is his glory that when we clap eyes upon him physically at his second coming, then “we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is” (1 Jn 3: 2). That full, unveiled, physical sight of the glorified Jesus will be so majestically effecting it will transform our very bodies around us. The sight of him now by the Spirit makes us more like him spiritually; the sight of him then, face to face, will finally make us—body and soul—as he is.”- Rejoicing in Christ by Mike Reeves

Good words are worth much, and cost little.
     --George Herbert (1593-1633)
      _Jacula Prudentum_ [1651], Number 155
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The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.- Bert Newton

"Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to his mercy." –John Calvin

Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were.- Timothy Keller@timkellernyc

Quotes 21 Feb

Our greatest sins are those of the mind.—Thomas Goodwin

Brexit delayed would be Brexit denied.- Jacob Rees-Mogg@Jacob_Rees_Mogg

“Suffering is an irreplaceable medium through which I learned an indispensable truth: God is God.”- Elisabeth Elliot

When I die I want to be a ghost and pester the
bishops, priests, and godless monks so that they
have more trouble with a dead Luther than they
could have had before with a thousand living ones.
     --Martin Luther (1483-1546)
      _Table Talk_ [1536], Number 1442

“Most of our Christian problems and errors of thought come about precisely through forgetting or marginalising Christ. That is, that despite all our apparent Christian-ness, we fail to build our lives and thoughts upon the Rock.”- Rejoicing in Christ by Mike Reeves

Quotes Feb 20

Christ is an unchangeable Saviour, so he is your unchangeable portion. Your earthly enjoyments may be removed, but you may rejoice that Christ can never fail.-
Jonathan Edwards@Heart_Aflame

The first thing that God created in the natural world, was light (Gen 1:3), and the first thing which God createth in the new creation, is the light of spiritual knowledge (Col 3:10).  J Flavel

“We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.”-Denis Diderot

One of the great uses of Twitter will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.
—@JohnPiper

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.- Charles M. Schwab, 1862 - 1939

Quotes 19 Feb

When you lose other enjoyments, when you lose earthly friends, let this be a supporting, satisfying comfort that you have not lost God.- Jonathan Edwards@Edwards_SDG

Modern drugs are wonderful. They enable a woman with pneumonia to nurse her husband who has flu.- unknown

Providence is like the Hebrew alphabet; best read backwards. - Flavel

The church is most certainly called to social action: to care for the poor, widows, and orphans.But this quite a different thing than saying she is called to engage in social justice: the dismantling of hierarchies throughout society.- Joshua D Jones@BlueCheezWhisky

Anger should not be destroyed but sanctified. — William Jenkyn

Quotes 18 Feb

"True gospel exposition is not less than an intellectual endeavour, but it is much more. Its goal is that the mind might be engaged in great thoughts of God, the heart inflamed with the love of God, the body animated in service to God & the lips consecrated in praise of God."- Paul David Washer - Heartcry Missionary Society

This depravity, or godlessness, is the root cause
of America's moral decline.  We grasp for what
feels good instead of what is good.
--David Jeremiah (1941-    )
_Is This The End?_ [2016], "The Age Of Anything Goes"

We see in John Calvin......
1. an unyielding faithfulness in the face of great hostility
"he put truth before consequences2
2. a commitment to the priority of preaching
3. a passionate concern for the glory of Christ
4. a true delight in God
5. the practice of ministerial humility
6. a pursuit of protestant catholicity
7. a commitment to meaningful pastoral care
8. a commitment to church purity
9. the absolute necessity and priority of scripture based worship
"9 Lessons from Calvin for the Church today" by Ian Hamilton @IPCEaling

"Pastors that don't visit are worse than bears." - John Calvin on Acts 20

“If there is no absolute beyond man’s ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgements conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions.” –Francis Schaeffer

IM B. B. Warfield 16 Feb1921)

A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly problems. It is almost equally true that a clear and full apprehension of the universal providence of God is the solution of most theological problems. B. B. WARFIELD

If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not enough to say that we are compelled to abandon only a "particular theory of inspiration..." We must go on to say that that "particular theory of inspiration" is the theory of the apostles and of the Lord, and that in abandoning it we are abandoning them.... B. B. Warfield (1851-1921), The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible [1948]

We can never know that we are elected of God to eternal life except by manifesting in our lives the fruits of election.--B. B. WARFIELD 

The marvel of marvels is not that God, in his infinite love, has not elected all this guilty race to be saved, but that he has elected any. --B. B.WARFIELD

It is never on account of its formal nature as a psychic act that faith is conceived in Scripture to be saving...It is not, strictly speaking, even faith in Christ that saves, but Christ that saves through faith. The saving power resides exclusively, not in the act of faith or the attitude of faith or nature of faith, but in the object of faith. B. B. WARFIELD

"The EU is “sleepwalking into oblivion” and “will go the way of the Soviet Union” unless it wakes up to rise of anti-European sentiment," - George Soros Does the word “Christianity” bear a definite meaning? Men are debating on all sides of us what Christianity really is. Auguste Sabatier makes it out to be just altruism; Josiah Royce identifies it with the sentiment of loyalty; D.C. Macintosh explains it as nothing but morality. We hear of Christianity without dogma, Christianity without miracle, Christianity without Christ. Since, however, Christianity is a historical religion, an undogmatic Christianity would be an absurdity; since it is through and through a supernatural religion, a non-miraculous Christianity would be a contradiction; since it is Christianity, a Christless Christianity would be — well, let us say lamely (but with a lameness which has perhaps it own emphasis), a misnomer. People set upon calling unchristian things Christian are simply washing all meaning out of the name. If everything that is called Christianity in these days is Christianity, then there is no such thing as Christianity. A name applied indiscriminately to everything, designates nothing.- THE GRAVEYARD OF WORTHY WORDS, B.B. WARFIELD I have learned to kiss the waves that slam me against the rock of ages.-Spurgeon Without God at the wheel of the human heart, we are like a driverless car careening down the freeway. A crash is inevitable. - unknown

"The EU is “sleepwalking into oblivion” and “will go the way of the Soviet Union” unless it wakes up to rise of anti-European sentiment," - George Soros

Does the word “Christianity” bear a definite meaning? Men are debating on all sides of us what Christianity really is. Auguste Sabatier makes it out to be just altruism; Josiah Royce identifies it with the sentiment of loyalty; D.C. Macintosh explains it as nothing but morality. We hear of Christianity without dogma, Christianity without miracle, Christianity without Christ. Since, however, Christianity is a historical religion, an undogmatic Christianity would be an absurdity; since it is through and through a supernatural religion, a non-miraculous Christianity would be a contradiction; since it is Christianity, a Christless Christianity would be — well, let us say lamely (but with a lameness which has perhaps it own emphasis), a misnomer. People set upon calling unchristian things Christian are simply washing all meaning out of the name. If everything that is called Christianity in these days is Christianity, then there is no such thing as Christianity. A name applied indiscriminately to everything, designates nothing.- THE GRAVEYARD OF WORTHY WORDS,  B.B. WARFIELD

I have learned to kiss the waves that slam me against the rock of ages.-Spurgeon

Without God at the wheel of the human heart, we
are like a driverless car careening down the
freeway.  A crash is inevitable. - unknown

You can now hear God audibly and daily, by just reading the Bible audibly and daily. And its FREE! - unknown

Quotes 15 Feb

When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses a threat to liberty.- Margaret Thatcher@MrsMThatcher

Since you are tempted without ceasing, pray without ceasing - Charles Spurgeon

‘When sin tempts...it uses a thousand excuses’.— John Owen

Whenever I am accused of being 'homophobic' or transphobic I just simply ask the accuser to give one example.  So far none have been able to.  The trouble is that they think that if you disagree with a policy like SSM (or indeed on any issue) then you must be doing so because you are 'phobic'.- David Robertson

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres." - Pythagoras.

Quotes 14 Feb

Common law is common right. -. Edward Coke, as quoted by William Penn at his trial.

Sleep is the best physician that I know of.  Sleep hath
healed more pains of wearied heads, and hearts, and
bones than the most eminent physicians upon earth.
     --C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)
      _Words Of Wisdom_
       http://www.spurgeon.us/mind_and_heart/quotes/s4.htm#sleep

The other gods were strong; but Thou wast weak;
They rode, but Thou didst stumble to a throne;
But to our wounds only God’s wounds can speak,
And not a god has wounds, but Thou alone.
Edward Shillito 1872 - 1948 Jesus of the Scars.'

“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, the gospel of envy. It’s inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery”.  —Winston Churchill

Almighty God, who has given us this good land for our heritage: We humbly beseech You that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Your favour and glad to do Your will. Bless our land with honourable industry, sound learning, and pure manners. Save us from violence, discord, and confusion; from pride and arrogance, and from every evil way. Defend our liberties, and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought here out of many kindreds and tongues. Endue with the spirit of wisdom those to whom in Your Name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be justice and peace at home, and that, through obedience to Your law, we may show forth Your praise among the nations of the earth. In the time of prosperity, fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in You to fail; all which we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.- Book of Common Prayer

IM Albert Einstein 13 Feb1955

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.-Albert Einstein _Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium_ (1941) ch. 13

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.-Albert Einstein

 Science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source offeeling, however springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image:science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.--Albert Einstein,_Ideas and Opinions_, p. 46 (1954)

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. -Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. ... Albert Einstein, (1875-1955)

HB Cotton Mather 12 Feb 1663

It was afterwards by the them confessed, that upon the arrival of the English in these parts, the Indians employed their sorcerers, whom they call powaws, like Balaam, to curse them, and let loose their demons upon them, to shipwreck them, to distract them, to poison them, or in any way to ruin them. All the noted powaws in the country spent three days together in diabolical conjurations, to obtain the assistance of the devils against the settlement of these our English; but the devils at length acknowledged unto them, that they could not hinder those people from their becoming the owners and masters of the country; whereupon the Indians resolved upon a good correspondence with our new-comers.- Cotton Mather (Magnalia, v.1 p.55).

Examples do strangely charm us into imitation. When holiness is pressed upon us we are prone to think that it is a doctrine calculated for angels and spirits whose dwelling is not with flesh. But when we read the lives of them that excelled in holiness, though they were persons of like passions with ourselves, the conviction is wonderful and powerful. - COTTON MATHER

I have often thought of Mr Paul Bayne, his fairwell words to Dr Ames when going to Holland; Mr Bayne perceiving him to be a man of extra-ordinary parts, 'Beware (said he) of a strong head and a cold heart.' COTTON MATHER

I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse in his reading of the Bible; and of turning it into a Prayer; and engage him (and them) unto a daily Course in reading the Bible in such a way. C. Mather--Diary v.2, p.251

IM Rene Descartes 11 Feb 1650

I think, therefore I am. 'Cogito, ergo sum' -- Rene Descartes 1596-1650: Le Discours de la methode

If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.-- Rene Descartes, Discours de la Me'thode, 1637

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.--Descartes

IM Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky 9 Feb 1881

Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here." --Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881)

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.-- Dostoevsky

The important thing is to stop lying to yourself. A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself as well as for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal, in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying- lying to others and to yourself. FYDOR DOSTOEVESKY, The Brothers Karamazov

Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth. - Fyodor Dostoyevski (1821-1881)_The Brothers Karamazov_ [1880]

Quotes 8 Feb

Hell has no fury like an EU scorned.- Jacob Rees-Mogg@Jacob_Rees_Mogg

We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.- G. K. Chesterton

Every generation of Christians has this problem of learning to speak meaningfully to its own age. It cannot be solved without an understanding of the changing existential situation which it faces. If we are to communicate the Christian faith effectively, therefore, we must know and understand the thought forms of our generation- Francis Schaeffer, Escape from reason Page 7

“…he (the Lord) has enjoined upon us frugality and temperance, and has forbidden, that any one should go to excess, taking advantage of his abundance. Let those, then, that have riches, whether they have been left by inheritance, or procured by industry and efforts, consider that their abundance was not intended to be laid out in intemperance or excess, but in relieving the necessities of the brethren.” - John Calvin

Hell is full of people who think they deserve heaven. Heaven is full of people who know they deserve hell. - Trevin Wax

Quotes 7 Feb

The devil...the prowde spirit..cannot endure to be mocked. Thomas More

The King's good servant, but God's First.-Thomas More's last words on the scaffold where he was about to be executed for refusing to sign the Act of Supremacy: In November 1534 Parliament confirmed that Henry VIII is "Supreme Governorof the Church of England," giving the king the right to reform the church and to judge heresies.

Cherish all your happy moments - they make a fine cushion for old age. -- Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)

A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side. Felix Morle

Against persistent love there is nothing that can be done; it blunts all weap ons. --Stuart Morris

Quotes 6 Feb

Unbelief was the first sin, and pride was the first-born of it. STEPHEN CHARNOCK

We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity. - STEPHEN CHARNOCK

We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us, han under the staff that comforts us. -Stephen Charnock

When God and his glory are made our end, we shall find a silent likeness pass in upon us; the beauty of God will, by degrees, enter upon our soul. STEPHEN CHARNOCK

Quotes 5 Feb

"Jesus Christ died on the cross for my sins. What has Muhammed done for you?" -Asia Bibi -That was her supposed blasphemy.

Ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of
its malice.--William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
_Table Talk_ [1822],"On the Disadvantages of Intellectual Superiority"

“A church that that does not say the historic Creeds on a regular basis is like a nation that does not remember her “War of Independence” of her “Fight for Freedom.” She has forgotten where she has come from. She has forgotten who she is. She has despised her mother (Prov. 15:20)” Reformation Worship p. 64

HB Charles Lindbergh 4 Feb 1902

• Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming oddCharles Lindbergh

  Life without risks is not worth living.Charles Lindberg

  Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in each curve of an airfoil, in each angle between strut and wire, in the gap of a spark plug or the color of the exhaust flame. There was freedom in the unlimited horizon, on the open fields where one landed. A pilot was surrounded by beauty of earth and sky. He brushed treetops with the birds, leapt valleys and rivers, explored the cloud canyons he had gazed at as a child. Adventure lay in each puff of wind.Charles Lindbergh

  If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.Charles Lindbergh

Quotes 2 Feb Gambling

State run lotteries: think of them as tax breaks for the intelligent. -- Evan Leibovitch

Gambling ought never to be an important part of a man's life. If it is a way in which large sums of money are transferred from person to person without doing any good (e.g., producing employment, goodwill, etc.) then it is a bad thing. If it is carried out on a small scale, I am not sure that it is bad. I don't know much about it, because it is about the only vice to which I have no temptation at all, and I think it is a risk to talk about things which are not in my own make-up, because I don't understand them. If anyone comes to me asking to play bridge for money, I just say: "How much do you hope to win? Take it and go away." --Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) _God in the Dock_ [1948], "Answers to Questions on Christianity," Question 13

One of the worst things that can happen in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age. Danny McGoorty

Gambling challenges the view of life which the Christian Church exists to uphold and extend. Its glorification of mere chance is a denial of the Divine order of nature. To risk money haphazard is to disregard the insistence of the Church in every age of living faith that possessions are a trust, and that men must account to God for their use. The persistent appeal to covetousness is fundamentally opposed to the unselfishness which was taught by Jesus Christ and by the NewTestament as a whole. The attempt (which is inseparable from gambling) to make a profit out of the inevitable loss and possible suffering of others is the antithesis of that love of one's neighbour on which our Lord insisted. ... Archbishop William Temple (1881-1944)

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can." -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar"