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Monday 25 March 2019

Quotes 25 Mar

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content
to travel up hill, though it be hard and tiresome,
and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
     --Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
      _The Christian Pilgrim_ [1733]

"Hard as I try, I cannot get my head around the colossal sense of entitlement it must require to agitate for the overthrow of a democratic vote simply because you didn’t like the outcome."-Brendan O’Neill on the people marching to revoke Article 50

“I think that it is deeply unfortunate that the authorities at the Divinity school in Cambridge decided that kowtowing to an ill-informed, ignorant and ideologically-addled mob trumped participating in an extensive online experiment in mass Christian and psychological education...I think that it is no bloody wonder that the faith is declining (and with it, the values of the West, as it fragments) with cowards and mountebanks of the sort who manifested themselves today at the helm."- Jordan Peterson on being banned by Cambridge Uni.

“If there is to be any respect whatsoever for our system of representative democracy, it has to deliver Brexit. To go back on all those promises to respect the referendum result would make a mockery of democracy.” - David Starkey on Brexit

The dark moments of our lives will last only so long as is
necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.
     --Dr. Charles F. Stanley (1932-    )
      _Walking With God: Quotations From The Sermons
       Of Dr. Charles F. Stanley_ [2012],
      "Life Principle No. 7"

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