Quotes 7 Apr 18

You can never hear God speak if your mouth is running all the time. God doesn't scream, he whispers.- unknown

He who denies hell shouldn't think "he has the slightest understanding of what Jesus came into the world to say and do.- unk

Mark Twain loved to brag about his hunting and 

fishing exploits. He once spent three weeks fishing 

in the Maine woods, regardless of the fact it was 

the state's closed season for fishing. Relaxing in 

the lounge car of the train on his return journey to 

New York, his catch iced down in the baggage car, 

he looked for someone to whom he could relate 

the story of his successful holiday. The stranger 

to whom he began to boast of his sizable catch 

appeared at first unresponsive, then positively 

grim. 'By the way, who are you, sir?' inquired 

Twain airily. 'I'm the state game warden,' was 

the unwelcome response. 'Who are you?' Twain 

nearly swallowed his cigar. 'Well, to be perfectly 

truthful, warden,' he said hastily, 'I'm the biggest 

damn liar in the whole United States.' 

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ 

edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.] 

"What should I think of my child, if I found that he limited his faith in me and hope from me to the few promises he had heard me utter! The faith that limits itself to the promises of God, seems to me to partake of the paltry character of such a faith in my child—good enough for a Pagan, but for a Christian a miserable and wretched faith. Those who rest in such a faith would feel yet more comfortable if they had God’s bond instead of His word, which they regard not as the outcome of His character but as a pledge of His honour. They try to believe in the truth of His word, but the truth of His Being they understand not. In His oath they persuade themselves that they put confidence: in himself they do not believe, for they know Him not.... George MacDonald (1824-1905), “The Higher Faith”, in Unspoken Sermons [First Series]"

As Tom Shaw told the conference 'the Russian Bolsheviks were immensely superior to our government in candour, truth and doing things in the light of day 'The Times 14 August 1920 quoted in Labour and the Gulag.  Giles Udy Page 31