Quotes 1 Apr 17

 Neither the Bible, nor church history, nor Christian experience indicates that a one-size-fits-all crisis conversion is necessary. And the Reformers pressed for a view of Christian discipleship as typically rooted in the catechetical nurture of the baptized community, rather than in radical conversions. The preaching of the Word, sacraments, and prayer are the three ordinary means of grace, as Presbyterians call them. And good Evangelicals know that this is how disciples grow in their faith, regardless of whether they have been Christians all their lives or have come to faith by a crisis experience. Few believe that the Christian life is just one crisis experience after another. Rather, like Luther, they believe that “[w]hen our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, ‘Repent,’ he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.” - Carl R. Trueman

We have, therefore, to say that in our considered judgement the clergy cannot claim the liberty to enter into sexually active homophile relationships. Because of the distinctive nature of their calling, status and consecration, to allow such a claim on their part would be seen as placing that way of life in all respects on a par with heterosexual marriage as a reflection of God’s purposes in creation. The Church cannot accept such a parity and remain faithful to the insights which God has given it through Scripture, tradition and reasoned reflection on experience. - Issues in Human Sexuality (1991)

Quotes 31 Mar17

“God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.”
― C.S. Lewis

"Pride sets up the wisdom of a foolish man against the infinite wisdom of God; it makes men presume to judge their Judge, and judge his laws, before they understand them; and to quarrel with all they find unsuitable to their own conceits."Richard Baxter

"The Spirit may rightly be called the key that unlocks for us the treasures of the kingdom of heaven." —John Calvin

When tempted by the Devil to doubt of his salvation, Luther pointed not to the Tower (a conversion experience)  but to the baptismal font. “I have been baptized!” was his consistent defense against Satan’s temptations.- Carl Trueman

Quotes 30 Mar 17

 “You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.” Tim Keller Wisdom‏ @DailyKeller

“The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things, by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the Prophecy also into contempt. The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testaments, not to gratify men’s curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event; and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world. For the event of things predicted many ages before, will then be a convincing argument that the world is governed by providence.” --Isaac Newton, “Observations on the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John” (published
1733)

There have been few more radical changes in the history of Western
culture than the change in attitude towards war and the military
profession brought about by World War I.  Western literature began as
the literature of a warrior aristocracy, and until 1914 it took the
warrior ethic for granted; it assumed that war was glorious, and the
words _hero_ and _warrior_ were almost synonymous.  Conscription and
"sophisticated" weapons have changed all that....
The symbol of the change was the construction after 1918 in all the
belligerent countries of monuments to the Unknown Soldier.  Previously,
monuments had always been erected to known individuals, victorious
generals and admirals.  About the Unknown Soldier nothing is known
whatever except that he lost his life.  For all we know, he may,
personally, have been a coward.  In his monument, that is to say, we pay
homage to the warrior, not as a hero but as a martyr. -- W. H. Auden, _A Certain World_ (1970), s.v. War

Quotes for 29 Mar17

"Thus suffering, too, becomes a token of victory, because it leads one in the footprints of Christ." —Herman Ridderbos

"No one can live without joy. That is why when one is deprived of spiritual joy one becomes addicted to worldly pleasures." Thomas Aquinas

"Joys are always on the way to us. They are always traveling to us through the darkness of the night. There is never a night when they are not coming."Amy Carmichael, reflecting on Psalm 30:5

"The Christian should be an alleluia from head to foot."Augustine of Hippo

Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
God has a way of standing before the nations with justice and it seems I can hear God saying to America "You are too arrogant, and if you don't change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I will place it in the hands of a nation that doesn't even know my name." --Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)(In a speech at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; August 16, 1967.)

Quotes 28 Mar 17

All you need to do to determine what a people worship is to look at their parades. - Anthony Esolen

How silly were the idolaters of old, who knelt before the clumsy wooden figurines of their own making! We are wiser now. We kneel before mirrors. - Anthony Esolen

When people accuse us of being retrograde, or medieval, or puritanical--all words rummaged out of the box labeled “Not Progressive”--we should shrug, as if they had accused us of walking on two feet. - Anthony Esolen

Our motto instead is, “Work—or do anything at all, so long as you do not pray, or even come to an awareness of your frailty.” Turn up the noise. - Anthony Esolen

“I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all, but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.”- Martin Luther

Quotes 27 Mar 17

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit. --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (July 1 1742 – February 24 1799) (German scientist, satirist and philosopher), _Aphorisms (1765-1799)_ Notebook C (1772-1773) C 26

The gentleman has told us there is no such thing as coercion justifiable under the Constitution. I ask him for one moment to reflect, that no statute ever was enforced without coercion. It is the basis of every law in the universe,--God's law as well as man's. A law is no law without coercion behind it. When a man has murdered his brother, coercion takes the murderer, tries him, and hangs him. --Congressman James Garfield [Ohio] (1831-1881), Reply to Alexander Long [Ohio], 8 April 1864, House of Representatives, 38th Session; _The Life and Work of James A. Garfield_ (1881)

Every single pagan philosopher of the ancient world said…the worst form of slavery was slavery to your own appetites. - Anthony Esolen

He who would save a culture or civilization must not seek first the culture or the civilization but the kingdom of God. - Anthony Esolen

Quotes for 25 Mar 17

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believedthat the most effectual means of preventing this would be to illuminate as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large that…they may be enabled to know ambition under all shapes and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Bill for the More General diffusion of Knowledge (1778)

To cling to the crucified and risen Lord is to abolish all hopelessness. There are no hopeless situations for the Christian.- P. Andrew Sandlin

He who is armed with the power of God will not tremble at the noise raised by the world. -John Calvin‏ @JohnCalvinDaily

"New life is not something we can work up, it is something that must come down." —Sinclair Ferguson
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Affirming the Bible’s inerrancy is not the same as trusting its sufficiency. - Brian Osisek

Quotes for 24 Mar 17

A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (July 1 1742 – February 24 1799) (German scientist, satirist and philosopher), _Aphorisms (1765-1799)_ Notebook E (1775 - 1776) E 49

After eight years of bashing Christians, it’s nice to see Democrats praising Jesus again. But their arguments show a deep misunderstanding of what the faith mandates. Jesus called His followers to feed the hungry; He didn’t demand Pontius Pilate feed the hungry. Jesus didn’t don a balaclava, kick a centurion in the shins, and hang a #resistentiam banner from an aqueduct. He gathered the faithful and commanded them to love others. - Jon Gabriel, Ed.,  Render to Caesar the Things That Are Caesars

21 Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
22 When the young man heard this he went away sorrowful; for he had great possessions.
--Matthew 19:21-22, RSV
I note that Jesus did NOT say “Take what your neighbor possesses and give to the poor.”
--danok1, comment on https://ricochet.com/417120/render-caesar-things-caesars/

Quotes for 23 Mar 17

"Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened." Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: "Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.”ß   -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on communism.

"A faulty understanding of God and how to respond to him can only lead to praise that is inadequate in motivation and expression." —Trueman

A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books. --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (July 1 1742 – February 24 1799) (German scientist, satirist and philosopher), As quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991) edited by Alan Lindsay Mackay, p. 153

Quotes for 22 Mar 17

Don't be content if your church is known for good bible teaching. It's desirable but not enough; necessary but not sufficient…- Sam Allberry

"Earth’s crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God."
From ‘Aurora Leigh’ by Elizabeth Barratt Browning, who once described her passionate Christian commitment as "not the deep persuasion of the mild Christian but the wild visions of an enthusiast."

If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false. John Owen

Belonging to Christ means freedom, not slavery. Don't think of Christianity as having to do what a peevish God wants. Think of it as now being able to do what a good God wants. Through union with Christ we are now empowered for holiness.~ Kevin DeYoung "The Hole in Our Holiness"

Quotes for 21 Mar 17

"All human institutions since the dawn of prehistory or earlier had always been designed to prevent change--all of them: family, government, church, army. Change has always been a catastrophic threat to human security." - Peter R. Drucker, _Technology, Management, and Society_ (2010)

It is only the supremely wise or the deeply ignorant who never alter. --Confucius (551-479 BC) (In Marion Parker's _Thoughts Of The Great:  A Scrapbook of Quotations_ [1960])

Without regeneration it is morally and spiritually impossible for a person to believe in Christ. —John Murray

A German friend once remarked that Hitler was only the second most destructive thing his country had unleashed upon the world.  Worse by far, he said, were the ideas of Karl Marx. The notion an idea could be more destructive than fleets of bombers and Panzer divisions is a large claim but there is evidence in support of it. ... Explosives can achieve gross destruction.  But it misses things between the craters;  by contrast a mental bomb can destroy civilization itself; its value, institutions, goals and even its grip upon
reality.  In the contest between Panzer division and Manifesto, the manifesto appears far the more powerful. The computer revolution has given us the tools to understand why Communism has so much devastating power.  We can now recognize it as history's greatest and most dangerous piece of intellectual malware, whose only true rival is radical Islam.
-- Richard Fernandez, More Powerful Than a Bomb
https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2016/05/15/the-more-powerful-than-a-bomb/

Quotes for 20 Mar 17

“For there is no secure possession of wealth, unless it be maintained by defense of arms.” Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus (known simply as Vegetius), _Epitoma Rei Militaris_ (Epitome of Military Science)

“Who can doubt that the art of war comes before everything else, when it preserves our liberty and prestige, extends the provinces, and saves the Empire?”  Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus (known simply as Vegetius), _Epitoma Rei Militaris_ (Epitome of Military Science)

“In every battle it is not numbers and untaught bravery so much as skill and training that generally produce the victory.”- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus (known simply as Vegetius), _Epitoma Rei Militaris_ (Epitome of Military Science)

 No man is qualified to be a disciple of Christ, until he has been divested of self.John Calvin‏ @JohnCalvinDaily

Quotes for 19 Mar 17

My usefulness was the last idol I was willing to part with, but the Lord has enabled me to give even this up. - John Newton‏ @john__newton

It may indeed be true that the liberal economic order permits great differences in income, but that in no way involves exploitation of the poor by richer people. What the rich have they have not taken away from the poor; their surplus could not be more or less redistributed to the poor in the socialist society, since in that society it would not be produced at all.  Ludwig Von Mises (1881-1973), _Nation, State, and Economy_ Ch. 2. "Socialism and Imperialism"

Until you supremely value Christ, your attitude towards clothing will be controlled by forces that don’t honor God.- John Piper

Some people still hold to those old fashioned views that marriage is for a man and woman and I think there’s a feeling amongst people that if you dare say that, again, you’re going to invite buckets of slime to be poured over your head. - Paul Embery, London regional secretary of the Fire Brigades Union

Quotes for 17 Mar 17

"I’m related to Adam in my natural birth. I’m related to Jesus in my new birth. I can’t deny my past. No one can deny my future." Dan DeWitt

"The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, and tongues, and kindreds. Nor should this lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property. Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; is a
positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built." - Abraham Lincoln, "Reply to a Committee from the Workingmen's Association of New York," March 21, 1864 (Complete Works, X, 53-54)

"The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just, and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all, gives hope to all, and energy, progress, and
improvement of condition to all." - Abraham Lincoln, "Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society," September 3o, 1859 (Ibid., V, 249-250)

Quotes for 16 Mar 17

How Religion Works:
If I obey, then God will love and accept me.
The Gospel:
I’m loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.
Tim Keller Wisdom‏ @DailyKeller  55m55 minutes ag

God does not forsake the work which his own hands have begun.- John Calvin‏ @JohnCalvinDaily

 "If God be for us, who can be against us?" means... "that if we possess God, then we can meet with equanimity the loss of all besides.”-J. Gresham Machen‏ @jg_machen

“Ours is not a marriage of convenience, or a fair-weather friendship, but a true and enduring Union, tested in adversity and found to be true... We are four nations, but at heart we are one people. That solidarity is the essence of our United Kingdom and is the surest safeguard of its future.”- Theresa May, Prime Minister, on the Union

Quotes for 15 Mar 17- at home and so happy and thankful I forgot to post this yesterday

Adam in his Garden said, "Not your will but mine" and brought death.
Jesus in his Garden said, "Not my will but yours" and brought life.Sam Allberry

The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud, & to challenge ourselves without being crushed.- Tim Keller Wisdom‏ @DailyKeller

When you and I truly encounter the Presence of the Living God,
our response is not to ask Him all those questions we have about life and death and everything else. It’s not to complain about what our lives are like or about what someone else did. A true encounter with God leads us to worship Him.- Rocky Henriques

In a word, the world does not explain itself, and cannot do so merely by continuing to expand itself. But anyhow it is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything. --G.K. Chesterton: "St. Thomas Aquinas," Chap. VII─The Permanent Philosophy

Quotes 14 Mar 17 - hoping for discharge from hospital today

I can't prove God's existence. But, in Jesus, I can prove his goodness. A goodness so overwhelming it settles the question of his existence.- Sam Allberry

"The church must seek to conquer not merely every man for Christ, but also the whole of man." —J. Gresham Machen

A Christian is one who recognizes Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God, as God manifested in the flesh, loving us and dying for our redemption; and who is so affected by a sense of the love of this incarnate God as to be constrained to make the will of Christ the rule of his obedience, and the glory of Christ the great end for which He lives. --Charles Hodge

"Man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself. For (such is our innate pride) we always seem to ourselves just, and upright, and wise, and holy, until we are convinced, by clear evidence, of our injustice, vileness, folly, and impurity."
John Calvin

While you are unfit to die, you can have no true enjoyment of life.John Newton‏ @john__newton

Quotes 13 Mar 17 - in hospital

YouTube rumblings:- We know what is happening in this world, it is a jihad war against Christians and Christianity. It is a war against western education, democracy and constitution. We have not started, next time we are going to Abuja; we are going to refinery and towns of Christians. You don’t know me. I have no problem with Jonathan. This is what I know from the Qur’an. It is war against Christians and democracy and their constitution. Allah says we should finish them when we get them.’ (Shekau 2014)

In the long term, however, Muslims need to acknowledge and undertake a critical reassessment of the received romanticized jihadist narrative. The blunt truth is that, to the Muslim rulers he overthrew and the communities that were decimated, Dan Fodio was the nineteenth century Bin Laden and Shekau - John Azumah_-_boko_haram_in_restrospect

It hides its embarrassing connection to the leadership of a well-established Salafi organization in the country. - Boko Haram in Retrospective John Azumah,

‘Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.’ Martin Luther

Quotes 12 Mar 17 in hospital

True prayer should pour out the whole soul and every inward feeling before him.- John Calvin‏@JohnCalvinDaily  11h11 hours ago

"As Christ is here, in us, intent on conforming us to his image by his Spirit, he is also there, at God's right hand." —Richard Gaffin, Jr.

The character and mercy of God is our only hope, and the only hope of the universe. ~ Paul Tripp ~

“I have my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else. I do not believe we can preach the gospel if we do not preach justification by faith without works; nor unless we preach the sovereignty of God in His dispensation of grace; nor unless we exalt the electing unchangeable eternal, immutable, conquering love of Jehovah; nor do I think we can preach the gospel unless we base it upon the special and particular redemption of His elect and chosen people which Christ wrought out upon the cross. (Charles Spurgeon, The New Park Street Pulpit, Vol. 1, 1856).”

Quotes 11 Mar 17 - still hospiital

"When home ties are loosened, when men and women cease to regard a worthy family life, with all its duties fully performed and all its responsibilities lived up to, as the best life worth living, then evil days for the commonwealth are at hand. There are regions in our land, and classes of our population, where the birth rate has sunk below the death rate. Surely it should need no demonstration to show that willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the national penalty is national - death, race death--a sin for which there is no atonement." - Theodore Roosevelt

"We moved from being a pretty beastly, brutal and horrible nation to one that was literally the envy of the world in the extent to which we were self-governing. Evangelical religion played a huge part in transforming the nature of our society." Frank Field. The answer then isn't a "Social Highway Code".

"If anyone bothers to read the Quran, they will find that 'Islamic extremists' are the consistent muslims that rightly represent the religion, and that 'tolerant muslims' are inconsistent and nominal adherents of Islam."-Travis Fentiman

The undermining of Christian faith, systematically pursued by Western cultural and political elites, does not lead to some sort of secular Utopia with its own “neutral” morality, but to the rise of religious beliefs other than Christianity, which will bring their own –often opposite -moral values.-Giorgio Roversi, The Amorality of Atheism

Quotes 10 Mar 17 from hospital

"That dying thief, he could not work, his hands were nailed. He could not walk, his feet were nailed. He could not get baptized. He could not take communion. He could not join the church. But praise God, he could look. That is how he was saved. He looked. Who did he look to? He looked to Jesus. That is the way you are saved!"
Ian R. K. Paisley

He whose own homeland is sweet to him is a beginner. He to whom every soil is as his native land is strong. But he to whom the whole world is a place of exile has achieved perfection. –Hugh of St. Victor

The stone at Jesus's tomb was rolled away not to let Jesus out, but to let witnesses in.- Sam Allberry

 So great is the influence of preconceived opinion, that it brings darkness over the mind in the midst of the clearest light.- John Calvin‏@JohnCalvinDaily

"Obedience is the only validation of salvation." - John MacArthur

Quotes 9 Mar 17 - in hospital

 O when will I plead, with my tears and inward yearnings, over sinners! O compassionate Lord, give me to know what manner of spirit I am of!-  Robert M. McCheyne ‏@McCheyneQuotes

 “If God wiped out all sources of evil in the world we would no longer be here, the evil is inside us.”- Tim Keller Wisdom ‏@DailyKeller

The psalms of David are the songs of our hearts. With David we trust God’s provision each day as our only comfort in life and death.~ Dr. John Frame

If faith did not feed the lamp of hope with oil it would soon die.— Thomas Watson
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The only thing I have to contribute for my salvation is my sin. Therefore, I am only sitting on the finished work of Jesus Christ I have nothing to add rather living in appreciation of what the Lord has done. - Gashion Hosea Gakshiwe

Quotes Mar 8th 17 - 8th day in hospital

'Let us call upon our good God and Father, since all fullness of wisdom and light is found in him, mercifully to enlighten us by his Holy Spirit in the true understanding of his word.'- CALVIN'S PRAYER OF ILLUMINATION BEFORE THE SERMON

"Many of our problems, caused by years of stupid decisions, or no decisions at all, have grown into a huge mess. If I could wave a magic wand and fix them, I’d do it. But there are a lot of different voices—and interests—that have to be considered when working toward solutions. This involves getting people into a room and negotiating compromises until everyone walks out of that room on the same page.”- Donald Trump

Loving those who love us is easy. Christ loved those at enmity with Him, and He expects us to love our enemies too. John MacArthu

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.- fear of 666

"If we were animals, perhaps we might qualify for protection as an endangered species. But we are only human beings with disabilities, so we do not." - Lord Kevin Shinkwin, DISABLED member of the House of Lords speaking about a legal loophole that allows selective abortions based on disability in the UK.

Quotes 7 Mar 17 from hospital

“The storms are guided by the hands which were nailed to the cross.”— John Newton
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God in his untamed grace delights to rescue people for whom everybody else has given up hope. Grace is God's wildest wild card. - P. Andrew Sandlin

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.- John Calvin ‏@JohnCalvinDaily

"If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?"- David Livingstone

"It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to." C.S. Lewis

Quotes 6 Mar from hospital.

Christ is not only a remedy for your weariness and trouble, but he will give you an abundance of the contrary, joy and delight. They who come to Christ, do not only come to a resting-place after they have been wandering in a wilderness but they come to a banqueting-house where they may rest, and where they may feast. They may cease from their former troubles and toils, and they may enter upon a course of delights and spiritual joys.-- Jonathan Edwards

"Communion with God is what makes heaven, heaven." — R.B. Kuiper

A church is not a group of friends you’ve picked, it’s a group of brothers and sisters God has picked for you.- White Horse Inn ‏@WhiteHorseInn

"It is atheism to pray and not to wait in hope" — Richard Sibbes

When the world gives you little, let it be a mustard seed- Tim Danchal Toy

3 Mar 17 quotes.Still on recovery wth an elevator temperate 39.2 C

FRIDAY, MARCH 03, 2017

You never, ever start a day alone, because not matter how lonely you feel, your Savior is with you and hYe won't be leaving.~ Paul Tripp ~
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Often, we can't help but worry about what tomorrow holds. We fret and become anxious about the outcome of a report, or meeting to be held. Paul, in Phil.4:6-7 gives the antidote to worry and anxiety by saying, " Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." In using the word "guard", Paul uses a military term, implying that the mind is a battle zone. A guard is capable of preventing a hostile take over. Anxiety removes the guard, but the peace of God operates in a way, so as to protect our minds from corrupting external forces.- Wayne Thring

I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.
~ Justice Clarence Thomas


How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg?
Four.
Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg. -Abraham Lincoln

Quotes 2 Mar 17 -from hospital

Every addition to His Word is a lie.-  John Calvin ‏@JohnCalvinDaily

Identity
Fulfilment
Actualisation
The only word Jesus puts 'self' in front of is 'denial.' All the rest comes from God not us.-Sam Allberry

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
Jonathan Edwards

If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.-John Calvin