Quotes 28 Feb

The Christian mind has lo these many years been pretty well switched off as far as ordinary life is concerned. ...Of course in religion and morals it has tried to do its own cooking; but across the rest of life - schooling, housing, marrying; working, playing, spending- it has been content to buy whatever packaged mixes were available on the shelves of the secular idea market. - Robert Farrar Capon, Bed and Board, p 33

Keep constantly in mind the saying, "The eye is not 

satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with 

hearing."  Strive to withdraw your heart from the 

love of visible things, and direct your affections 

to things invisible.  For those who follow only 

their natural inclinations defile their conscience, 

and lose the grace of God. 

     --Thomas A' Kempis (1380-1471) 

      _The Imitation Of Christ_ [c. 1420]; Book 1, Chapter 1 

The philosopher Plato said that those who love and seek wisdom are 

clinging in recollection (or remembrance) to things that they once had 

seen. On many occasions in my life I have had the need to say, and 

thankfully have been able to say: I know what a good worker is; I know 

what an honest man is; I know what friendship is; I know because I 

remember these things in the person of my father, in the person of his 

friend Hora, and in the example of their friendship. 

== Raimond Gaita [on his father Romulus Gaita], "Romulus my father", 

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and 

to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful 

and his children smart. 

== H. L. Mencken, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks, 1956 

Every head turned, and the teacher stared, aghast. "How dare you say 

such a thing?" he demanded. "I dare say anything," I replied more 

cheerfully, "because I have a fast horse."  Several of the students 

laughed, and one shouted, "Well spoken, soldier!" "Have you no 

reverence?" the teacher demanded.     "I have reverence for all who 

ask questions and seek honest answers."  "A philosopher!" laughed a 

student. "A wanderer in search of answers," I said, then to the 

teacher, "You asked if I have reverence? I have reverence for truth, 

but I do not know what truth is. I suspect there are many truths, and 

therefore, I suspect all who claim to have 'the' truth." Walking my 

horse a few steps closer, I added, "I have reverence for the inquirer, 

for the seeker. I have no reverence for those who accept any idea, 

mine included, without question." "You are a heretic!" he threatened. 

"I am a pagan, and a pagan cannot be a heretic." "You ride an infidel 

horse." "My horse has never committed herself, but judging by her 

attitude on a frosty morning, she is an unbeliever." There were 

subdued chuckles, and the teacher's eyes narrowed. "You ridicule the 

Church," he threatened. "Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I 

have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are 

against so many things and for so little." 

==Louis L'Amour, Walking Drum 

Quotes 27 Feb

We get too sook old and too late smart, but with a loving God and forgiving friends, I am grateful and glad. - Robert Farrar Capon, Bed and Board, p 18

Justin Welby said the Islamic rules are incompatible with Britain’s laws, which have developed over 500 years on the principles of a different culture....He said yesterday in advance of publication that British law has ‘underlying values and assumptions’ that come from a clearly Christian tradition. ‘Sharia law is not just about punishments,’ he added. ‘It is something of immense sophistication, but it comes from a very different background of jurisprudence to the one from which British law has developed over the past 500 years’....The problem is reimagining Britain through values applied in action can only work where the narrative of the country is coherent and embracing.’ The Archbishop said: ‘Sharia, which has a powerful and ancient cultural narrative of its own, deeply embedded in a system of faith and understanding of God, and thus especially powerful in forming identity, cannot become part of another narrative.‘Accepting it in part implies accepting its values around the nature of the human person, attitudes to outsiders, the revelation of God, and a basis for life in law, rather than grace, the formative word of Christian culture.’-http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5428849/Welby-Islamic-rules-incompatible-British-laws.html

Keep constantly in mind the saying, "The eye is not 

satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with 

hearing."  Strive to withdraw your heart from the 

love of visible things, and direct your affections 

to things invisible.  For those who follow only 

their natural inclinations defile their conscience, 

and lose the grace of God. 

     --Thomas A' Kempis (1380-1471) 

      _The Imitation Of Christ_ [c. 1420]; Book 1, Chapter 1 

The philosopher Plato said that those who love and seek wisdom are 

clinging in recollection (or remembrance) to things that they once had 

seen. On many occasions in my life I have had the need to say, and 

thankfully have been able to say: I know what a good worker is; I know 

what an honest man is; I know what friendship is; I know because I 

remember these things in the person of my father, in the person of his 

friend Hora, and in the example of their friendship. 

== Raimond Gaita [on his father Romulus Gaita], "Romulus my father", 

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and 

to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful 

and his children smart. 

== H. L. Mencken, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks, 1956 

 

Quotes 26 Feb

It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life it is how you handle what happens to you.-Life Quotes@liife_quote

Arguing with a fool only proves that there are two.-ife Quotes@liife_quote

From the totalitarian point of view history is something to be created rather than learned~ George Orwell

The Christian mind has lo these many years been pretty well switched off as far as ordinary life is concerned. ...Of course in religion and morals it has tried to do its own cooking; but across the rest of life - schooling, housing, marrying; working, playing, spending- it has been content to buy whatever packaged mixes were available on the shelves of the secular idea market. - Robert Farrar Capon, Bed and Board, p 33

About sex especially men are born mad; and they hardly reach sanity until they reach sanctity.- G K Chesterton quoted in - Robert Farrar Capon, Bed and Board, p 48

Quotes 24 Feb 18

I think God has sent it [Parkinson's Disease] at
this age to show me that I'm totally dependent
on Him.
     --Billy Graham (1918-2018)
      _Midwest Today_ [January 1997]

  When I was a child,
I hid as a child,
I hoped as a child,
I prayed as a child.
When my government didn't protect me,
I put away childish things.
--Christopher Weyant
      (Political cartoon; February 21, 2018)

Official figures suggest crime is on a downward trend but officers say many victims have stopped reporting incidents while organised crime syndicates have been given a free rein.
“Only one in nine criminal groups can be tackled with the current people and resources,” the report given to the De Telegraaf newspaper says. “Detectives see that small criminals develop into wealthy entrepreneurs who establish themselves in the hospitality industry, housing market, middle class, travel agencies.”
The paper from the Dutch police union, based on interviews with 400 detectives, adds: “The Netherlands fulfils many characteristics of a narco-state. Detectives see a parallel economy emerge.”- The Guardian

Quotes 23 Feb 18

Atheism is the ultimate delusion - Debating Delusions – Proclaiming Christ in the Public Square by theweeflea 2018-02-21 @wordpress.com>

The kingdom of God is camouflaged in carnage. It grows like a seed, with division, delay, disappointment; it is hidden in plain sight, it is dressed in riddles and paradox, it will grow to be a tree that will fill the whole earth.- David Gibson@davidngibbo

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a
shower.
     --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

    If a friend tell thee a fault, imagine always that he telleth
thee not the whole.
        --Thomas Fuller (I), _Introductio ad Prudentium_, 1731

        It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he
is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
        --Arnold Bennett

Quotes 22 Feb 18

Atheism is the ultimate delusion - Debating Delusions – Proclaiming Christ in the Public Square by theweeflea 2018-02-21 @wordpress.com>

The kingdom of God is camouflaged in carnage. It grows like a seed, with division, delay, disappointment; it is hidden in plain sight, it is dressed in riddles and paradox, it will grow to be a tree that will fill the whole earth.- David Gibson@davidngibbo

 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")

Quotes 21 Feb 18

'It has been obvious for years that Richard Dawkins had a fat book on religion in him, but who would have thought him capable of writing one this bad? Incurious, dogmatic, rambling and self-contradictory, it has none of the style or verve of his earlier works.'-Prospect magazine on R Dawkins, The God Delusion

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.-Chinese Proverb

Those in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to God, who makes them to differ from others. Godliness is no cause for glorying, except it be in God. - Jonathan Edwards@Heart_Aflame

Quotes 20 Feb 18

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson

Busy in California helping my sick friend and walking his dog. More t/f D.V. 

Quotes 19 Feb 18

Charles Spurgeon ...called slavery, 'the foulest blot ... which may have to be washed out in blood...a crime of crimes, a soul destroying sin, and an iniquity which cries out for vengeance.' quoted in The Book of Books,Melvyn Bragg, p.239 from Charles Haddon Spurgeon: A Preachers Progressby Patricia Stallings Kruppa, it was in a letter written by Spurgeon to Henry Ward Beecher.

THE SOn of Mary, the adopted son of a carpenter, sits now on the throne of the universe. A man now stands, no longer a victim to the serpent’s wiles, but a true king, utterly victorious.-Mike Reeves@mike_reeves

 

Wisdom has a price.  It costs not by purchasing it 

with money, but with the willingness to abandon 

certain pleasures of the world.  The cost may 

pertain to our pride.  The cost could result in 

changing our lifestyles. 

A high IQ is not required.  This is because the 

wisdom that we are talking about in this book comes 

only from God.  It is His prerogative to give or 

withhold wisdom.  It is one of His greatest gifts 

to us.  It is promised to those who make a wise 

choice--to choose to follow his ways. --R. T. Kendall (1935-    ) 

      _Charisma_ [October 2015], "Secrets of Gaining Wisdom" 

       https://view.imirus.com/306/document/11863/page-name/56 

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors — the bright mirror of 

words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say. 

==>Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram (2003)  

Quotes 17 Feb 18

There is no loneliness to the believer.  He may be
misunderstood, slandered, disliked, persecuted; but
near him is the presence of a sympathizing Father,
shaping, guiding, influencing every step in the path
through life towards a definite and blessed end.
     --Basil Wilberforce (1841-1916)
      (In Marion Parker's _Thoughts Of The Great:
       A Scrapbook of Quotations_ [1960])

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

Time is your most precious gift because you only
have a set amount of it.  You can make more money,
but you can't make more time.  When you give someone
your time, you are giving them a portion of your
life that you'll never get back.  Your time is your
life....The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or
roses or chocolate.  It is focused attention.  Love
concentrates so intently on another that you forget
yourself at that moment.  Attention says, "I value
you enough to give you my most precious asset--my
time." Whenever you give your time, you are making a
sacrifice, and sacrifice is the essence of love.
-Rick Warren (1954-) _The Purpose Driven Life_ [2002], Chapter 16

My book wants to look at what has been neglected:a history that no longer dares to speak its name. A history of positive achievement catalysed by the King James Bible and the Protestant movement. - The Book of Books,Melvyn Bragg, p.202

"Everything that is lovely in God is in Him, [Jesus] and everything that is or can be lovely in man is in him...for He is man as well as God, he is the holiest, meekest, most humble, and every way the most excellent man that ever was." - Jonathan Edwards,/// Children Ought to Love the Lord Jesus Christ

Quotes 16 Feb 18

"When my praying stops, my coincidences stop."
     --William Temple (1881-1944)
      (In Bill Hull's _Right Thinking_ [1985],
      "Right Thinking About Prayer")

'Even if we were beaten [later], we should be no worse off than we should be in we were now to abandon the struggle.'- Churchill to the War Cabinet

'I thought Winston talked the most frightful rot'- Lord Halifax, diary, 27 May 1940 quoted in Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks p96

“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” - Churchill to pupils at Harrow quoted in Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks p10

THE revolt against vows has been carried in our day even to the extent of a revolt against the typical vow of marriage. It is most amusing to listen to the opponents of marriage on this subject. They appear to imagine that the ideal of constancy was a yoke mysteriously imposed on mankind by the devil, instead of being, as it is, a yoke consistently imposed by all lovers on themselves. They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words—'free-love'—as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free. It is the nature of love to bind itself, and the institution of marriage merely paid the average man the compliment of taking him at his word. Modern sages offer to the lover, with an ill-flavoured grin, the largest liberties and the fullest irresponsibility; but they do not respect him as the old Church respected him; they do not write his oath upon the heavens, as the record of his highest moment. They give him every liberty except the liberty to sell his liberty, which is the only one that he wants. --G.K. Chesterton: "A Defence of Rash Vows."

Today I arranged a marriage.  God grant that it may
turn out well!  It is well to pray, for the devil
is hostile to this estate and quickly assails a
marriage with poisonous tongues.

I remember what happened to me in the case of Master
Philip and his bride when, after the wedding, he was
told that she wasn't a virgin but had a tainted
body.  Oh, how I suffered with Philip for a whole
week!  I resolved never again to be a matchmaker.

So I advise all good people who contemplate marriage
not to be dissuaded by the slanders of men--that is,
not to believe Satan, who is bitterly hostile to
this estate.

     --Martin Luther (1483-1546)
      _Table Talk_ [1536], Number 3538

Quotes 15 Feb 18

If the U.S.A. is going to submit to conquest as well, there is nothing to do for it but to die fighting, but we must above all die fighting and have the satisfaction of killing someone else first.- Churchill mid June 1940 in Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks p104

If this long island story of ours is to end at last let it end only when each of us lies choking in his own blood on the ground. - Churchill to the War Cabinet 28 May 1940, quoted in Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks p97

A husband must lead his wife not be mothered by her. He must serve her for her good not act like she is his servant. He must be strong but tender with her. He must love her even when she's unlovable. He must make her his primary ministry.- Gavin Peacock@GPeacock8

Every Christian needs to be reminded of who they are. A form of spiritual amnesia takes place while we sleep at night, and it is vital that we begin each new day reminding ourselves of who we are.- Derek Thomas@DerekWHThomas

By law every householder in Massachusetts (1659) had to pay a tax for the church or meeting house and by law have to go there for  two hours twice on Sundays and for a two hour lecture in the week. - The Book of Books,Melvyn Bragg, p.60

Quotes 14 Feb 18

Sanctification is Jesus turning our lives into the likeness of His own beauty, that we might shine with His own glory. —Sinclair FergusonLife Quotes

It's better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.- @liife_quote

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. -Charles Spurgeon

The world is filled with nice people. If you can't find one, be one.- Life Quotes @liife_quote

"Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. It does involve the belief that God loves man and for his sake became man and died.' CS Lewis (Miracles)

Quotes 13 Feb 18

 No problem is too big to run away from. -Charles M. Schulz

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. -Friedrich Nietzsche

"Marriage shows us the shape of the gospel. Singleness shows us the sufficiency of the gospel." -Sam Allberry

-

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. 

He who faces no calamity will need no courage. 

Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in 

human nature which we love best grow in a soil 

with a strong mixture of troubles. 

     --Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) 

      _The Christian Herald_, Volume 92 [1969] 

The belief that we have come from somewhere, is closely linked with 

the belief that we are going somewhere … our view of history reflects 

our view of society. == EH Carr 

Quotes 12 Feb 18

As long as you continue to reject those offers and invitations of Christ and continue in a Christless condition, you will never enjoy any true peace or comfort but will be like the prodigal, who in vain endeavoured to be satisfied with the husks that the swine did eat.- Jonathan Edwards‏ @Heart_Aflame

“The Bible, according to its own claims, is breathed forth from God. To maintain that there are flaws or errors in it is the same as declaring that there are flaws or errors in God Himself.” E.J. Young

I prefer the natural sky to an opium-eater's heaven.
     --Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
      _Walden_ [1854], Chapter 11

"Born this way" doesn't mean "ought to be this way". But to be "born again" means we can now forsake our way and live God's way.- Gavin Peacock @GPeacock8

On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody
is a member of the crew.  We have moved into an age
in which everybody's activities affect everyone else.
     --Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)

Quotes 10 Feb 18

But if we have respect to the word of God, it will lead us farther,
   and make us subject not only to the authority of those princes who
   honestly and faithfully perform their duty toward us, but all princes,
   by whatever means they have so become, although there is nothing they
   less perform than the duty of princes. .. Still all alike possess that
   sacred majesty with which he has invested lawful power. ... in so far as public obedience is concerned, he is to be held in the same honour and reverence as the best of kings.-  Calvin, Institutes,4.20.4.25

"Our Lord Jesus is His people’s representative. When He died for them, they had rest; when he rose again for them, they had liberty; when He sat down at His Father’s right hand, they had favour, and honour, and dignity."- Spurgeon Library @SpurgeonMBTS

We are all members one of another ... in the concept of the Church on earth, the Body of Christ ... we learn or interdependence ... and the great truth  that we do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society. - Margaret Thatcher, speech at St Lawrence Jury, London, 30 Mar 1978 in The Mighty and the Almighty by by Nick Spencer p3

I remember being very frightened indeed when France collapsed because I thought it was going to be us next. Really frightened. Until I heard the speech that Churchill made on the radio about fighting on the beaches. I suddenly wasn't frightened anymore. It was quite amazing. - Joan Seaman, London civilian, quoted in Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks p100

Wherefore no man can doubt that civil
   authority is, in the sight of God, not only sacred and lawful, but the
   most sacred, and by far the most honourable, of all stations in mortal
   life. -  Calvin, Institutes,4.20.4

Quotes 9 Feb 18

It is indeed a bad thing to live under a prince with whom
   nothing is lawful, but a much worse to live under one with whom all
   things are lawful.-  Calvin, Institutes,4.20.10

“Islam is an open-ended declaration of war against non-Muslims,” declared the priest, and those who carry out acts of violence and intolerance are only doing what their creed requires... Those who fail to recognise the real threat posed by Islam are naive and ignorant of history, he said, and unfortunately many in the Church fall into this category.  Citing a letter he wrote last August to Pope Francis, Father Boulad said that “on the pretext of openness, tolerance and Christian charity — the Catholic Church has fallen into the trap of the liberal left ideology which is destroying the West.” -Father Henri Boulad

The only safe and honourable course for a self- respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience . . . not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.--Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) (In R. Daniel Watkins' _An Encyclopedia of Compelling Quotations_ [2001], "Civil Disobedience")

Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice. -Bill Cosby

You will become a mere social wastrel, one of the hundreds of the pubic school failures, and you will degenerate into a shabby unhappy and futile existence,. If this is so you will have to bear all the blame for such misfortunes yourself. - Lord Randolf Churchill 1993 letter to his 18 year old son Winston accepted as a Sandhurst Cadet  quoted in Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks p9

The LGBT contradiction

The  news below while not surprising does speak to me of an inherent contradiction in the modern views on LGBT issues. Their lobby is totally opposed to the idea that a same sex attracted person can change. For them sexual orientation is a given from birth set in stone and unalterable. Yet when it comes to gender they say completely the opposite. Biology is not destiny. You can chose whatever gender you feel like. Never mind the chromosomes with which you were born which determine your biological sex. Choose what you want to be.    So sexual orientation is set in stone but gender is fluid. Why do they not see their self contradiction? The truth is that man is fallen. He is not as he aught to be. We are all born with original sin so we are all screwed up in some way. For some this may be sexual orientation or gender dysphoria. The good news is you do not have to stay that way. By his grace through faith in Christ there is restoration, there is healing. No.You cannot change but God can change you. BTW surveys have shown that those who are exclusively same sex attracted are only around 1% of the population in the West. With gender dysphoria are far fewer. However those who want to engage in homosexual activity or wish to try out a different gender are many more. Our culture encourages them now. I have a suspicion that they are usually the vocal one in the LGBT lobby. Many same sex attracted persons only want to lead a quiet life. Tomorrow, Thursday 8th February, Core Issues Trust is due to premiere Voices of the Silenced, a new documentary film giving a voice to people who voluntarily seek help to move away from homosexual behaviours and feelings. But after a campaign from LGBT newspaper PinkNews, Vue Cinemas has turned their back on Core Issues Trust at the last minute and cancelled the booking. Andrea Williams, CEO of Christian Concern, commented: “This is fundamentally a free speech issue. As usual, a minority of gay activists use threats and intimidation to shut down any opposing views. Tragically, they can’t tolerate the truth that there are significant numbers of men and women who have no wish to remain in a gay lifestyle and seek help to leave it." “Ironically, the actions of Pink News and Vue cinema illustrate the point of the film. The Voices of the Silenced are, in fact, being silenced.” Join the protest If you can, please join us outside the original venue at 6.30pm tomorrow (8th February) to peacefully protest the decision. DATE: Thursday 8th February TIME: 6.30pm VENUE: Vue Cinema, 19 Regent St, St. James's, London SW1Y 4LR Pray and contact Vue Cinemas If you can't come, please pray for us and for Core Issues Trust and consider respectfully contacting Vue Cinemas to let them know what you think of their ban: Email: customerservices@vuemail.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/VueHelp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VueCinemas/ Encourage your friends to take action Please use Twitter, Facebook and email to let others know. Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Visit our website

You are subscribed with the following email address: gweeks@btinternet.com Want to leave our list? Unsubscribe here.

Christian Concern 70 Wimpole Street London W1G 8AX Phone: 020 3327 1120 www.christianconcern.com

Quotes 8 Feb 18

So much of left wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know fire is hot.  - Orwell on W H Auden in Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks p127

“Islam is an open-ended declaration of war against non-Muslims,” declared the priest, and those who carry out acts of violence and intolerance are only doing what their creed requires... Those who fail to recognise the real threat posed by Islam are naive and ignorant of history, he said, and unfortunately many in the Church fall into this category.  Citing a letter he wrote last August to Pope Francis, Father Boulad said that “on the pretext of openness, tolerance and Christian charity — the Catholic Church has fallen into the trap of the liberal left ideology which is destroying the West.” -Father Henri Boulad

It is doubtful whether a fortress as strong as Singapore can be taken by storm - Orwell on BBC radio January 1942, - in Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks p143 It fell the next month, the worst ever British army defeat and by an outnumbered Japanese force.

Economic problems never start with economics. They have much deeper roots in human nature. - Margaret Thatcher to the Conservative Party Conference, 1975 in The Mighty and the Almighty by Nick Spencer p1

We are all members one of another ... in the concept of the Church on earth, the Body of Christ ... we learn or interdependence ... and the great truth  that we do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society. - Margaret Thatcher, speech at St Lawrence Jury, London, 30 Mar 1978 in The Mighty and the Almighty by by Nick Spencer p3

Quotes 7 Feb 18

God has revealed himself to us in the Bible pervasively as King, not Queen, and as Father, not Mother. The second person of the Trinity is revealed as the eternal Son. The Father and the Son created man and woman in his image, and gave them together the name of the man, Adam (Genesis 5:2). God appoints all the priests in Israel to be men. The Son of God comes into the world as a man, not a woman. He chooses twelve men to be his apostles. The apostles tell the churches that all the overseers—the pastor/elders who teach and have authority (1 Timothy 2:12)—should be men; and that in the home, the head who bears special responsibility to lead, protect, and provide should be the husband (Ephesians 5:22–33). - John Piper, https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/the-frank-and-manly-mr-ryle-the-value-of-a-masculine-ministry

Though your health, happiness, and legs be anchored to the floor, let the news of God’s forgiveness bear you up on wings like eagles.- Desiring God‏@desiringGod

We are not given a good life or a bad life. We are given a life. It's up to us to make it good or bad.- Life Quotes‏ @liife_quote

Saying, “I won’t ever push a religion on my children” is a religious statement. It betrays that you are committed to indoctrinating your children with a definitive worldview.- Nick Batzig@Nick_Batzig

I will not be ashamed to
   confess that it is too high a mystery either for my mind to comprehend
   or my words to express; and to speak more plainly, I rather feel than
   understand it. The truth of God, therefore, in which I can safely rest,
   I here embrace without controversy. He declares that his flesh is the
   meat, his blood the drink, of my soul; I give my soul to him to be fed
   with such food. In his sacred Supper he bids me take, eat, and drink
   his body and blood under the symbols of bread and wine.- Institutes of Christian Religion, John Calvin, Book 4,ch 17,sect 32

Quotes 6 Feb

Economic problems never start with economics. They have much deeper roots in human nature. - Margaret Thatcher to the Conservative Party Conference, 1975 in The Mighty and the Almighty by Nick Spencer p1

We are all members one of another ... in the concept of the Church on earth,the Body of Christ ... we learn or interdependence ... and the great truth  that we do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society. - Margaret Thatcher, speech at St Lawrence Jury, London, 30 mar 1978 in The Mighty and the Almighty by Nick Spencer p3

In the more sober years of our fathers, men had 

something better to live for than silly sports. 

     --Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) 

      _Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 34 [1888] 

The one nice thing about sports is that they prove men 

do have emotions and are not afraid to show them. 

     --Jane O'Reilly 

      _The Girl I Left Behind_ [1980] 

"Hate the sin and not the sinner" is a precept 

which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely 

practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred 

spreads in the world. . . . 

Man and his deed are two distinct things.  It is 

quite proper to resist and attack a system, but 

to resist and attack its author is tantamount to 

resisting and attacking one-self.  For we are all 

tarred with the same brush and are children of one 

and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers 

within us are infinite. 

To slight a single human being is to slight those 

divine powers, and thus to harm not only that being, 

but with him, the whole world. 

--Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) 

_The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His 

Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas_ [1962], 

"Victory In South Africa"