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Tuesday 19 March 2019

Quotes 20 Mar

Learn in confession to be honest with God.  Do not
give fair names to foul sins; call them what you
will, they will smell no sweeter.
--C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)
_Morning And Evening_ [2003]; "April 7, Evening

“If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. So it’s not that you are anti-gun. You’ll need the police’s guns to take away other people’s guns. So you are very pro-gun, you just believe that only the Government (which is, of course, so reliable, honest, moral and virtuous) should be allowed to have guns. There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralising gun ownership in the hands of a small, political elite and their minions.” -– Stefan Molyneux, Facebook

Freedom of religion is after all a fundamental value of the Christian West.   But in order to protect that freedom we cannot ignore the fact that Islam is a political system and that where it prevails there is either a greatly reduced or no freedom of religion.  Can our commentators name one country where Islam prevails where there is real freedom of religion? - Christchurch Commentaries by theweeflea

The Christian’s motto should not be “Let go and let God” but “Trust God and get going.”
— J. I. Packer

If we want to be "strong in the Lord, and in the
power of his might", one of the first things we
have to do is to read and to take in and to
masticate thoroughly this Book [Bible].
     --Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981)
      _The Christian Soldier_ [1977]

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