Quotes 21 May

Here is what’s crucial for American Christians to recognise. True justice doesn’t start with our rights. It starts with God’s righteousness and his understanding of what’s right. We do justice by doing what’s right, which includes respecting people’s rights. First right, then rights. The order is crucial. What God says is right is the root; rights are the flower.- Jonathan Leeman, How the Nations Rage: Rethinking Faith and Politics in a Divided Age (Thomas Nelson, 2018)p. (216–17)

I do not think it at all probable aeronautics ever come into play as a serious modification of transport and communication.- H G Wells, Anticipations p. 32 (Written two years before the Wrights flew.)

It has been said that one of the greatest dangers of civilisation is that man's conquest in the  realms of science have outstripped his moral progress. It is the greatest task which lies ahead of us all in the Labour and Socialist movement to see to it that the citizen's sense of obligation to the community keeps pace with the changes effected in the structure of society. We need to stress duties as well as rights. - Clement Attlee, speech to the 47th annual Labour Party conference in Scarborough 19 May 1948

Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass,
But still remember what the Lord hath done.
     --William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
      _King Henry VI_, Part II [1590-1591]; Act II, Scene I

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God,
and value it next to a good conscience; for health
is the second blessing that we mortals are capable
of; a blessing that money cannot buy.
     --Izaak Walton (1593-1683)
_The Compleat Angler_ [1653-1655], Chapter 21