Quotes 30 Jun

Above all things beware of letting your tongue outrun your brains. --C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) 

If you want to appreciate health visit the hospital,if you want to appreciate freedom visit prison, if you want to appreciate life visit the grave.- Ruqayya

@missiyyah

The greatest Jihad is to say the truth in front of the King. - Hadith 

“Marriage is not mainly about staying in love. Marriage is mainly about keeping a covenant.”- John Piper 

Equality of opportunity will always result in inequality of outcome. To make everyone equal in outcome, we must take away liberty and opportunity.- Joshua D Jones

Quotes 29 Jun

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.--C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) (In Craig Larson's _1001 Quotations That Connect_ [2009], #936) 

If the word do not dwell with power in those it will not the out with power from those John Owen 

You become like what you look if they can see you in love with them you can say anything to them Richard Baxter 

When God ripens apples he isn't in a hurry and doesn't make noise- David Jackman 

'All justice is social, it's redundant'.- Joe Boot

Quotes 28 Jun

Your deepest heartaches don’t come from enemies of the gospel. Your deepest hurts and disappointments come from those you deeply love. And only the gospel is deep enough to heal the wound.- Gavin Peacock@GPeacock8

“Our conduct is not the basis for our salvation, but is influenced by our salvation.” – John Frame

If you want to know why you were placed on this
planet, you must begin with God.  You were born
by his purpose and for his purpose.
The search for the purpose of life has puzzled
people for thousands of years.  That's because
we typically begin at the wrong starting point--
ourselves.
We ask self-centered questions like "What do I want
to be?"  "What should I do with my life?"  "What are
my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future?"
But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our
life's purpose.  The Bible says, "It is God who
directs the lives of his creatures; everyone's
life is in His power." (Job 12:10 TEV)
Contrary to what many popular books, movies, and
seminars tell you, you won't discover your life's
meaning by looking within yourself.  You've probably
tried that already.  You didn't create yourself, so
there is no way you can tell yourself what you were
created for!
If I handed you an invention you had never seen
before, you wouldn't know its purpose, and the
invention itself wouldn't be able to tell you
either.  Only the creator or the owner's manual
could reveal its purpose.
I once got lost in the mountains.  When I stopped to
ask for directions to the campsite, I was told, "You
can't get there from here.  You must start from the
other side of the mountain!"
In the same way, you cannot arrive at your life's
purpose by starting with a focus on yourself.  You
must begin with God, your Creator.  You exist only
because God wills that you exist.
You were made by God and for God--and until you
understand that, life will never make sense.
It is only in God that we discover our origin,
our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our
significance, and our destiny.  Every other
path leads to a dead end.
--Rick Warren (1954-    )
_The Purpose Driven Life_ [2002], Chapter 1

Let us not be troubled by idle prophecies as to the end of the world, even if they claim to be interpretations of Scripture, for what angels do not know has certainly not been revealed to hair-brained fanatics.- C.H. Spurgeon @chsquotes

Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place
in society can be compared to that which has been
produced by the words of Jesus Christ.
     --Mark Hopkins (1802-1887)
      (In R. Daniel Watkins' _An Encyclopedia of
       Compelling Quotations_ [2001], "Jesus")

Quotes 26 Jun

To take a glimpse within the veil,
To know that God is mine,
Are springs of joy that never fail,
Unspeakable! divine!
John Newton@john__newton

"…it is possible to have the best intentions and ignore the cultural possessions of a people, and to preach the gospel pure and simple, without any application to their specific characteristics. History has shown that such a procedure is questionable...such a method does not take seriously enough the people to whom one speaks. God, in contrast, takes us, and those to whom we speak, very seriously, and as his ministers we ought to do the same. Abstract, disembodied and history-less sinners do not exist; only very concrete sinners exist, whose sinful life is determined and characterised by all sorts of cultural and historical factors… I must bring the gospel of God’s grace in Jesus Christ to the whole man, in his concrete existence, in his everyday environment. It is obviously then a great error on my part if I do not take a person’s culture and history seriously."
J. H. Bavinck, An Introduction to the Science of Missions (Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1960), p. 81.

The wonderland of God’s creation includes a masterpiece whose beauty more closely resembles the actual nature of God than anything else in the whole universe.
What is it?
You.
—Steve DeWitt, Eyes Wide Open

You may know God, but not comprehend him.
     --Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
      (In Martin H. Manser's _The Westminster Collection
       of Christian Quotations_ [2001], "Knowing God")

If each spouse says to the other, "I will treat my selfishness as the main problem in the marriage," you have the prospect for great things.- Timothy Keller@timkellernyc

Quotes 25 Jun

Adversity stretcheth our days. 

     --Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) 

    &nbs p; _Hydriotaphia: Urn Burial_ [1658] 

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such 

a society as our own without wanting to change it. 

     --George Orwell (1903-1950) 

      _The Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters 

       of George Orwell_ [1968], "Why I Joined The 

       Independent Labour Party" 

This is the choice before us: either try to 

revolutionize the world and break under it, or 

revolutionize ourselves and remake the world. 

     --Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979) 

      _Crossways_ [1984] 

Individual reformation [is] a necessary prerequisite 

and conditi on of social reformation. 

     --Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) 

      (In Christopher Isherwood's _Vedanta for the 

       Western World_ [1945], "Idolatry") 

When Christ's preachings are practiced, it will be 

possible to say that a revolution is occurring 

in the world. 

     --Fidel Castro (1926-   &nbs p;) 

      _Chicago Tribune_ [January 19, 1998]

HB Independence Day 23 Jun 2016

The common law will remain the basis of our legal system, and our Courts will continue to operate as they do at present..- British Government White paper 1971 on the effects of the proposed entry into the European Common Market,, quoted in Margaret Thatcher, The Path to Power, Harper Collins,1995, p210

We've been invaded without a shot being fired. It's been an absolute waste of time going to war in 1914 and 1939. Millions of people died who didn't want a federal Europe and now Tony Blair's surrendering it. If you live in South Africa and you're a patriot, they give you the Nobel Prize, If you live in England and you're a patriot, they call you a bigot. Nobody represents us. ----Tom Bromley, Daily Telegraph (UK), November 8, 2000

We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked but not comprised. We are associated but not absorbed. And should European statesmen address us and say, 'Shall we speak for thee?', we should reply, 'Nay Sir, for we dwell among our own people'. --Winston Churchill - 1953

European integration was a noble idea, born of the desire that France and Germany should not go to war again. - Boris Johnson, Lend Me Your Ears p296

Quotes 23 Jun

All events are governed by God’s secret plan.- John Calvin@JohnCalvinDaily

We know not what we are born to in our second birth;
for, as a man is born to trouble by his first birth,
when he is born a second time, he is born to a
double share of trouble.
Then, he was born to physical and mental trouble;
but now that he is born again, he is born to
spiritual trouble; and as he shall have new joys,
so shall he also have a long list of new sorrows.
--Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
_Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 48 [1902]

It is part of the gospel that the Holy Spirit indwells you and me. That's part of the good news!- Michael Horton@MichaelHorton_
·
Among the many reasons for not arguing with a fool is that we unintentionally advertise their position. Most of them have a very small audience if left alone.- Rodney Autry

Fasting means crucifying what I refer to as "King
Stomach."  And in case you don't know who King
Stomach is, just move this book out of the way, look
down, and introduce yourself.  You've probably
already heard him rumble in disagreement a time
or two since you began reading this book!
     --Jentezen Franklin (1962-    )
      _Fasting_ [2008], "Dethroning King Stomach"

Quotes 22 Jun

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to theirtremendous difficulties.--C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) (In Craig Larson's_1001 Quotations That Connect_ [2009], #936)

No door is closed to God. If the front door closes another will open. - Mildred Cable

Charismania is pietism gone to seed. - Dick Lucas

Sermonettes make Christianettes. - John Stott

Berkoff writes to give ideas about God but Calvin writes to give knowledge of God -JI Packer

Quotes 21 Jun

Caesar gets his share of submission, but only once God’s universal Law is respected! As every law has to be constitutional, every claim of submission to authority has to be seen in light of our submission to God’s character and Law, to reason, and in consideration of the facts. Otherwise, it is not submission, but an enslavement by the authority, and an abrogation of responsibility by the citizen.- On Law and Authority, Udo W. Middelmann

The readiness of the English to apologise for something they haven't done is remarkable and it is matched by an unwillingness to apologise for what they have done. - Henry Hitchings,  Sorry! The English and their manners, p 7

The  French were  women at the toilet, heroes in the field, contemptible in private life, in public formidable. The English adapted only half of this which threatened to be their ruin. -, John Brown Estimate of the manners and principles of the times, 1757 ,

I have studied the manners of the French nation, and have found them volatile even to a degree of childishness.  To all rules there are doubtless, exceptions, but a Frenchman is in general an ignorant prejudiced fop. - George Edward Ayscough 1779

the only difference between the English and then brother savages in Africa is that among the latter the fair sex meet with some consideration . - Robert Martin Leisure, Les Savauges de l'Europe

Quotes 20 Jun

The concept that God has chosen Pol Pot, Erdogan, Mussolini, Hitler or any president to have the authority to create binding laws dismantles the Scriptures’ concepts. The Scriptural emphasis is that God’s Law stands in judgement over men’s laws. We therefore have the obligation to judge the laws of any country, of which we are citizens, in light of the Law to love “your neighbour as yourself” (Remember the Egyptian midwives). On this, as Christ says, hang ALL the Law and the prophets.” The whole thrust of the Scripture, in multiple reminders and instructions, is on bringing life and order, love and compassion to the stranger, the poor, the widow, and the orphan. - On Law and Authority, Udo W. Middelmann

I come to win the Muslims not as the people oft do with arms, but with words, not by force but by reason, not in hatred but in love. - Petrus Venerabilis d.1157

The conquest of the holy land aught not to be attempted except in the way in which Thou and Thine apostles acquired it, namely by love and prayers and the pouring out of tears and blood. - Raymond Lull 1235 - 1315

Comparative religion makes you are comparatively religious

God is only rightfully served when his law is obeyed. -  Calvin on Ps 1:2. 

Quotes 19 Jun

“As a survivor of the Communist Holocaust I am horrified to witness how my beloved America, my adopted country, is gradually being transformed into a secularist and atheistic utopia, where communist ideals are glorified and promoted, while Judeo-Christian values and morality are ridiculed and increasingly eradicated from the public and social consciousness of our nation. Under the decades-long assault and militant radicalism of many so-called “liberal” and “progressive” elites, God has been progressively erased from our public and educational institutions, to be replaced with all manner of delusion, perversion, corruption, violence, decadence, and insanity.” – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, (1983)

If we disregard the warnings
And the writing on the wall,
We can make believe delusion
Doesn’t come before The Fall.

We can keep right on pretending
This is “progress”, like, ya know?
We can keep right on believing
This perversion’s apropos.

Let’s just keep on deca-dancing,
In our pompous, proud parades…
Marx ‘n’ Lennon…Just Imagine!
Welcome to The Dark Charade. - Tom Graffagnino

You don't need a private revelation, or a revival experience, we have Christ, the Scripture, the Spirit and the Church what more do you want? - @japipes

The pious mind does not devise for itself any kind of God, but looks alone to the one true God; nor does it feign for him any character it pleases, but is contented to have him in the character in which he manifests himself.- John Calvin ~ Institutes 1.2.2.

A typical MSM modus operandi of murdering a story is selective reporting. Stories are not just omitted; they are smothered to death with a pillow. The MSM has done this with the persecution of Christians in Muslim countries. ‘There is no question that these deaths constitute evidence of destruction for purposes of the Genocide Convention,’ a research paper in the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious international law journals, emphatically states. The truth that no one wants to know is that the persecution facing Christians is the largest ‘human rights’ violation issue in today’s world and the MSM have killed the story.- Mainstream media and the 'murder' of Tommy Robinson,June 17, 2018, Niall McCrae and Jules Gomes, https://www.julesgomes.com/single-post/Mainstream-media-and-the-murder-of-Tommy-Robinson

Quotes 18 Jun

Bodily pain should help us understand the cross, but mental depression should make us apt scholars at Gethsemane.—Charles Spurgeon

"The two great graces essential to a saint in this life are faith and repentance. These are the two wings by which he flies to heaven." ~ Thomas Watson (1620-1686)

“Christianity ... provides a unified answer to the whole of life” - Schaeffer,(Escape from Reason).

“To ask that man should have been made so that he was not able to revolt is to ask that God’s creation should have ceased after He created plants and animals. It is to ask that man should be reduced to machine programming. It is to ask that man as man should not exist.” Schaeffer,(The God who is there).

For your encouragement, know, that he who calleth you to come, knows your burden, what your sins have been and troubles are, yet he calls you.  JFlavel @FlavelJohn

Quotes 16 Jun

There are very few of the godly that will not ripen without affliction. —Spurgeon

If you don't understand how a perfectly good, all-powerful God could allow #suffering, this shows one of three things:
1 God is not perfectly good
2 God is not all-powerful
3 You're not God
Richard Baxter@NotThatRBaxter

Presbyterainism is full throttle Christianity. - Matthew Roberts, IPC Catalyst Conference.

How should finite comprehend infinite? We shall apprehend him, but not comprehend him.
—Richard SibbesC. S. Lewis

"What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are."- CSLewis@CSLewisDail

Quotes 15 Jun

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. --Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) _Orthodoxy_ [1908], "The Logic of Elfland"

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. -G.K. Chesterton ILN, 1/14/11 'Orthodoxy.'

We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it...Every stone or flower is a hieroglyphic of which we have lost the key; with every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand. G. K. CHESTERTON, Orthodoxy

When I fancied that I stood alone I was really in the ridiculous position of being backed up by all of Christendom.- Orthodoxy, G K Chesterton

Nearly all the "skulls," out of which Missing Links and Monkey Men have been made, have been only bits of bone. I do know that even of these bits of bone there are only about two or three in the whole world. But as long as those bits of bone were supposed to point, like the pebbles in the fairy-tale, along a particular path, a very gradual upward path of evolution, a scientific progress, nobody dared to suggest that such evidence was rather slight. Nobody ventured to complain that one skull was insufficient, or that one scrap of one skull was insufficient. Any minute bit of any mouldy bone was good enough for the purpose, so long as the evolutionists recognised it as a good purpose. Anything proved anything, so long as it proved the proper, progressive, really evolutionary thing. G K Chesterton {"Outlines of History," The Illustrated London News, 13 January 1923}

Quotes 14 Jun

Henny (Henry) Youngman (1906-1998) Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won't report it. The thief spends less than my wife.-Henny (Henry) Youngman (1906-1998)

Most marriage failures are caused by failures marrying. Henny (Henry) Youngman

My wife is a light eater ... as soon as it's light, she starts to eat.... Henny Youngman

I just got back from a pleasure trip... Took my mother-in-law to the airport. -- Henny Youngman

My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. - Henny Youngman

Quotes 13 Jun HB Dorothy L. Sayers 1893

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ. -- Dorothy Sayers

It is worse than useless for Christians to talk about the importance of Christian morality unless they are prepared to take their stand upon the fundamentals of Christian theology. -- Dorothy Sayers

Christ, in His divine innocence, said to the woman of Samaria, 'Ye worship ye know not what' -- being apparently under the impression that it might be desirable, on the whole, to know what one was worshipping. He thus showed Himself sadly out of touch with the twentieth century mind, for the cry today is: 'Away with the tedious complexities of dogma [doctrine] -- let us have the simple spirit of worship, no matter of what!' The only drawback to this demand is the practical difficulty of arousing any sort of enthusiasm for the worship of nothing in particular. -- Dorothy Sayers

It is curious that people who are filled with horrified indignation whenever a cat kills a sparrow can hear that story of the killing of God told Sunday after Sunday and not experience any shock at all. --Dorothy Sayers

Contempt of material things as such is, in fact, no more orthodox than pantheism -- it is the great dualist heresy which always lies in wait for an over-spiritualized Christianity.... Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957)

 

Quotes 12 Jun

“Remember one is given the strength to bear what happens, not the 101 different things that might happen.”— C. S. Lewis

Issues of complementarianism will be a dividing line in our day between who will give priority to God’s Word over culture and who will give priority to culture over God’s Word-
Gavin Peacock @GPeacock8.

All men are cremated equal - Spike Milligan

Neither work nor old age sound especially desirable.
But they’re both far preferable to their alternatives.
#MondayMotivation

The reigning ideology, that prosperity and the accumulation of material riches are to be valued above all else, is leading to a weakening of character in the West, and also to a massive decline in courage and the will to defend itself, as was clearly seen in the Vietnam War, not to mention a perplexity in the face of terror. But the roots of this social condition spring from the Enlightenment, from rationalist humanism, from the notion that man is the center of all that exists, and that there is no Higher Power above him. And these roots of irreligious humanism are common to the current Western world and to Communism, and that is what has led the Western intelligentsia to such strong and dogged sympathy for Communism. -  Solzhenitsyn, Between Two Millstones: Sketches of Exile, University of Notre Dame Press,  2018

Quotes11 Jun HB Ben Jonson 11 Jun 1572

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. -- Ben Jonson

Calumnies are answered best with silence. Ben Jonson

I have betrayed myself with my own tongue; The case is altered. Ben Jonson

Language most shewes a man: speake that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired, and inmost parts of us, and is the Image of the Parent of it, the mind. No glasse renders a mans forme, or likenesse, so true as his speech. - Ben Jonson "Oratio Imago Animi"

He was not of an age, but for all time.
Ben Jonson, To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author, Mr William Shakespeare.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. --Ben Jonson (1572-1637) In "Wisdom of the Ages at Your Fingertips," MCR software, 1995.

A good life is a maine Argument.

Ben Jonson_Timber: or, Discoveries, made vpon men and matter: as they have flow'd out of his daily Readings ; or had their refluxe to his peculiar Notion of the Times_, 1640 Discoveries, Topic 17, "Probitas. sapientia." ("Honesty and Wisdom") 

Quotes 9 Jun

Humans: We're good defence lawyers when it comes to our own sins. We're good judges when it comes to the sins of others - Joshua D Jones@BlueCheezWhisky

"Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away Paradise. Therefore in all temptations let us consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose." - Sibbes

“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?”
- CSLewis

Is government sometimes useful and necessary?
“So is a doctor. But suppose the dear fellow claimed the right, every time he was called in to prescribe for a bellyache or a ringing in the ears, to raid the family silver, use the family tooth-brushes, and execute the droit de seigneur upon the housemaid?” H.L Mencken

Repentance is “spiritual medicine” composed of six ingredients:
1. Sight of sin
2. Sorrow for sin
3. Confession of sin
4. Shame for sin
5. Hatred for sin
6. Turning from sin
— Thomas Watson (1620–1686)

Quotes 8 Jun IM Mohammed 8 Jun 632

Take to learning as far as possible, but God will not give it's rewards until you translate it into action. -- Mohammed, Hadith

Allah has made a medicine for every disease except old age. Hadith, Abu Dawud vol.3 no.3846 p.1083

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature. Mohammed (570-632 A.D.)

I passed by a party of men in the night of my ascension to heaven. Their tongues were being cut with scissors. I asked them: "Who are you? They said: 'We used to give advice to others for good deeds but we used not to do them. We used to prohibit evil deeds to others, but we used to do them' ". -- Mohammed, Hadith

O God, don't allow a sinner to do good to me as my mind may wish to love him. -- Mohammed, Hadith

Whoever renounces his religion, kill him. - Muhammad in the hadith, Sahih al Bukhari's collection

Quotes 7 Jun

This principled stand has allowed More to be portrayed as a martyr, a man who died for his principles. Hmm. More lied to Parliament, lied to the public, tortured his opponents and reintroduced the burning of heretics. For which he was canonised and made the patron saint of politicians and statesmen. You couldn't make it .- Up A nearly infallible history of the Reformation by Nick Page Page 251

"William Penn (1644-1718) had expressed ... "If we are not governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants." This consensus was as natural as breathing in the United States at that time. We must not forget that many of those who came to America from Europe came for religious purposes. As they arrived, most of them established their own individual civil governments based upon the Bible. It is, therefore, totally foreign to the basic nature of America at the time of the writing of the Constitution to argue a separation doctrine that implies a secular state."- Dr. Francis Schaeffer, A Christian Manifesto.

Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits, aflame with righteousness, did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
~Alexis de Tocqueville

Moses spent 40 years thinking he was somebody; 40 learning he was nobody; and 40 discovering what God can do with a nobody.— D. L. Moody

In times of adversity believers comfort themselves with the solace that they suffer nothing except by God's ordinance and command. - John Calvin

Quotes 6 Jun

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilisations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendours.” - C S  Lewis – St Mary’s Church in Oxford (1941)

Many people who claim to be trans gender suffer from gender dysphoria, the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which lists gender dysphoria as a mental disorder. We are called to love them and care for them. This involves creating opportunities to provide them with the best psychiatric treatment -
Jules Gomes,https://republicstandard.com/untitled-recruiting-mentally-dysfunctional-clergy-to-run-the-anglican-asylum/

Man has lost his ability to look to the stars to navigate the world and Christians have lost their ability to look to God’s word to navigate their life.” - Claude Hickman, The Traveling Team

“The most important time to be at church is when you don’t feel like it.”
The Most Important Time to Go to Church - David ‘Gunner’ Gundersen https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/most-important-time-to-go-to-church/

A wife is easily taken, but to have abiding love, that is the challenge. One who finds it in his marriage should thank the Lord for it. Therefore, approach marriage earnestly and ask God to give you a good pious girl, with whom you can spend your life in mutual love .For sex (alone) establishes nothing in this regard: there must also be agreement in values and character. Martin Luther quoted in A nearly infallible history of the Reformation by Nick Page Page 167

Quotes 5 Jun

“I meet young people, and they want to act and they want to be famous, and I tell them, when you get to the top of the tree, there’s nothing up there. Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie. Accept life as it is. Just be grateful to be alive.”— Anthony Hopkins

Work keeps us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty.-Voltaire (1694-1778)
_Candide_ [1759], Chapter 3

The essence of racism is the idea that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective—the race—is the source of his identity and value. To the racist, the individual's moral and intellectual character is the product, not of his own choices, but of the genes he shares with all others of his race. To the racist, the particular members of a given race are interchangeable. --Peter Schwartz, The Racism of “Diversity” http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=20282

Love is never primarily defined in the Bible as a feeling. At its foundation love is at least a commitment and a promise. - @timkellernyc

Wilt thou love God as he thee ? then digest,
My soul, this wholesome meditation,
How God the Spirit, by angels waited on
In heaven, doth make His temple in thy breast.
The Father having begot a Son most blest,
And still begetting—for he ne'er begun—
Hath deign'd to choose thee by adoption,
Co-heir to His glory, and Sabbath' endless rest.
And as a robb'd man, which by search doth find
His stolen stuff sold, must lose or buy it again,
The Sun of glory came down, and was slain,
Us whom He had made, and Satan stole, to unbind.
'Twas much, that man was made like God before,
But, that God should be made like man, much more.
John Donne

Quotes 4 Jun

“I meet young people, and they want to act and they want to be famous, and I tell them, when you get to the top of the tree, there’s nothing up there. Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie. Accept life as it is. Just be grateful to be alive.”— Anthony Hopkins

Work keeps us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty.-Voltaire (1694-1778)
_Candide_ [1759], Chapter 3

The essence of racism is the idea that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective—the race—is the source of his identity and value. To the racist, the individual's moral and intellectual character is the product, not of his own choices, but of the genes he shares with all others of his race. To the racist, the particular members of a given race are interchangeable. --Peter Schwartz, The Racism of “Diversity”
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=20282

Love is never primarily defined in the Bible as a feeling. At its foundation love is at least a commitment and a promise. - @timkellernyc

Wilt thou love God as he thee ? then digest,
My soul, this wholesome meditation,
How God the Spirit, by angels waited on
In heaven, doth make His temple in thy breast.
The Father having begot a Son most blest,
And still begetting—for he ne'er begun—
Hath deign'd to choose thee by adoption,
Co-heir to His glory, and Sabbath' endless rest.
And as a robb'd man, which by search doth find
His stolen stuff sold, must lose or buy it again,
The Sun of glory came down, and was slain,
Us whom He had made, and Satan stole, to unbind.
'Twas much, that man was made like God before,
But, that God should be made like man, much more.
John Donne

Quotes 2 Jun

The only way back to the tree of life is to trust in the one who hung upon the tree of death.- Story of the Word: Meditations on the Narrative of Scripture (Wipf and Stock, 2017).(11)

Sin isn’t always easily identifiable. A heart devoted to idolatry isn’t always observable from the outside. Judas managed to spend years on the inside of the community of disciples without raising a suspicion precisely because wickedness can so easily wear the mask of righteousness. Corruption can adopt the public persona of virtue. Story of the Word: - Jonathan LeemanMeditations on the Narrative of Scripture (Wipf and Stock, 2017).(86)

Veritas Christo et ecclesiae - Truth, for Chrisr and the church.- Harvard 1692 motto - Vishal Mangalwadi,  The book that made your World, Page 387

Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well to know God and Jesus Christ which is internal John 17 three and therefore to make Christ , the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ (John 17:3) and and therefore to lay Christ in the bottom, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and Learning, And seeing the Lord only giveth wisdom. Let everyone seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seek it him. (Pro 2:3)
Everyone shall so exercise himself in reading the scriptures twice a day, that he shall be ready to give such an account of his proficiency therein both in theoretical observations of language and logic and in practical spiritual truths, as his tutor shall require according to his ability; seeing the entrance of the word giveth light, it giveth
understanding to the simple. (ps 119 :130) - Harvard 1646 rules and precepts - quoted in Vishal Mangalwadi,  The book that made your World, p387

A post-modernist would be absolutely right in insisting that the Declaration of Independence was wrong. These terms are not self evident Human equality is not self evident anywhere in the world - not even in America. Women and blacks were not treated as equal in America. Equality was never self evident To Hindu sages. To them in inequality was self evident. The question was why are human beings born unequal.- Vishal Mangalwadi,  The book that made your World,  Page 391