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Wednesday 31 July 2019

Quotes Aug 1

Grant me never to lose sight of
  the exceeding sinfulness of sin,
  the exceeding righteousness of salvation,
  the exceeding glory of Christ,
  the exceeding beauty of holiness,
  the exceeding wonder of grace.
#valleyofvision

If you empty the world of purpose, make it one of brute fact alone, you empty it (for many people, at any rate ) of reason for gratitude, and a sense of gratitude is necessary for both happiness and decency. For what can soon, and all too easily, replace gratitude is a sense of entitlement. Without gratitude it is hard to appreciate, or be satisfied with what you have: and life will become an existential shopping spree that no product satisfies.
- Theodore Dalrymple, Not with a Bang but a Whimper, p.259

"The text which has been taken as a kind of motto-text of the Presbyterian churches is well chosen, with the emblem of the burning bush and the words of Exodus 3:2 about the bush which Moses saw: ‘𝘕𝘦𝘤 𝘛𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳’ – ‘Yet it was not consumed.’ This has been the story not only of the church but also of the Bible. It has been forbidden, it has been burned – sometimes literally but it has never been consumed." —David J. Randall, 'A Sad Departure'

Tuesday 30 July 2019

Quotes Jul 31

Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness
to sin. --Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
      _Disciples Indeed_ [1955]

The thinness of the new atheism is evident in its approach to our civilisation, which until recently was religious to the core. o regret religion, is in fact, to regret our civilisation and its monuments, its achievements and its legacy. - Theodore Dalrymple, Not with a Bang but a Whimper, p.259

Contentment lies not in the things he hath but in the mind that values them.- Joseph Hall, Characters of Virtues and Vices.

Monday 29 July 2019

Quotes Jul 30

If my heart is right with God, every human being is
my neighbour.--Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)

I like my government like feminists like their men: weak and only able to perform basic functions.- Rescued Goddaughter@XianCorleone

Faith saith sense is a liar. - Samuel Rutherford, Tryal of Faith, P. 157

Sunday 28 July 2019

Quotes 29 Jul

An Islamic regime must be serious in every field.There are n jokes in Islam. There is no humour i Islam. There is no fun in Islam. - Ayatollah Khomenmi

"As for Islamophobia, I deplore the invention of this word and all it has meant by way of silencing one side to a much-needed debate. It belongs to the new politics, based in 'the art of taking offence', among people who could not care less whether real offence has been given"- Roger Scruton Quotes@Scruton_Quotes

Adam was created to be the friend and companion
of God; he was to have dominion over all the life
in the air and earth and sea.
But one thing he was not to have dominion over,
and that was himself.
--Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)

Saturday 27 July 2019

Quotes 27 Jul

The old Puritan idea that the devil tempts men had
this remarkable effect: it produced the man of iron
who fought; the modern idea of blaming his heredity
or his circumstances produces the man who
succumbs at once.
     --Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
      _Disciples Indeed_ [1955]

There are only two kinds of people in the end:
those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and
those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will
be done."
All that are in Hell, choose it.  Without that
self-choice there could be no Hell.
--C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
_The Great Divorce_ [1946]

Thursday 25 July 2019

Quotes 26 Jul

Apologies for the interruption. This is mow my second week enjoying the blessing of the NHS as an inpatient.

Sufferings are but as little chips of the cross.- JOSEPH CHURCH

Never make the blunder of trying to forecast 
the way God is going to answer your prayer. 
     --Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)

Wednesday 17 July 2019

Quotes Jul 18

Our bad things will turn out for good. Our good things can never really be lost. And the best things are yet to come. -Jonathan Edwards

To regret religion, is in fact, to regret our civilisation and its monuments, its achievements and its legacy. - Theodore Dalrymple, Not with a Bang but a Whimper, p.259

Tuesday 16 July 2019

Quotes 17 Jul

God is always giving you better than you deserve and always withholding exactly what you deserve - no matter what your circumstances in this life.
- Gavin Peacock@GPeacock8

There is one aspect in the change of moral values brought about by the advancement of collectivism which at the present time provides special food for thought. It is the virtues that hare held less or less in esteem and which consequently became rarer are precisely those which the British people justly prided themselves and in which they were generally agreed to excel. The virtues possessed by the British people to a higher degree than most other people ... were Independence and self reliance, individual initiative and local responsibility ... non interference with one's neighbour and tolerance of the different and queer, respect for custom and tradition and a healthy suspicion of power and authority. - Friedrich A von Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, 1944

Quotes 16 Jul IM C T Studd 16 Jul 1931

God has called me to go, and I will go. I will blaze the trail, though my grave may only become a stepping stone that younger men may follow. - C. T. Studd Leaving his wife and four daughters in England, he sailed, contrary to medical advice, for the heart of Africa in 1910, where he continued to work until his death in 1931.

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him, - C. T. Studd

Sunday 14 July 2019

Quote 15 Jul

"Senior version of Jesus Loves Me"
Here is a new version just for us who have white hair or no hair at all. For us over middle age (or even those almost there) and all you others, check out this newest version of Jesus Loves Me.

JESUS LOVES ME
Jesus loves me, this I know,
Though my hair is white as snow
Though my sight is growing dim,
Still He bids me trust in Him.
(CHORUS)
YES, JESUS LOVES ME.. YES, JESUS LOVES ME..
YES, JESUS LOVES ME FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO.
Though my steps are oh, so slow,
With my hand in His I'll go
On through life, let come what may,
He'll be there to lead the way.
(CHORUS)

When the nights are dark and long,
In my heart He puts a song.
Telling me in words so clear,
"Have no fear, for I am near."
(CHORUS)

When my work on earth is done,
And life's victories have been won.
He will take me home above,
Then I'll understand His love.
(CHORUS)

I love Jesus, does He know?
Have I ever told Him so?
Jesus loves to hear me say,
That I love Him every day.
(CHORUS)

Friday 12 July 2019

Quotes 13 Jul

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.- Margaret Thatcher @MrsMThatcher

I am made of extremes. - Samuel Rutherford, letter to David Dickson

There can be no more acceptable sacrifice to God than a tyrant - Seneca

Thursday 11 July 2019

Quotes 12 Jul

In 1950 'total recorded crime' in England and Wales stood at 461350 incidents; fifty years later in 2001, that number had risen to 5,525,024  - greater than eleven-fold increase. - Robin Aitken, The Noble Liar, p,260

In 1803 the United States simply bought control of the entire Louisiana Territory form France.....At the stroke of a pen; and the handing over of $15 million, the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 doubled the size of the USA ...Henry Adams wrote, 'Never did the United States get so much for so little.' - -Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography, p. 70

Quotes 11 Jul

A report can be accurate and still deeply unfair whether by selection or omission. 'Fake news' is not so much about factual inaccuracy as about ideological bias;- Robin Aitken, The Noble Liar, p,251

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.  - Aleister Crowley, Book of the Law

Why do you think your values would work in a culture you don't understand. - The Chinese Ambassador to the UK quoted in Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography, p.51

Tuesday 9 July 2019

Quotes 10 Jul


.. the government, by subsidising what were once considered irregular unions has actually encouraged and promoted them, turning itself in the process into a surrogate father on a vast scale.  - Theodore Dalrymple, Litter, p.112

Prayer is not intended to produce a change in God, but in us. - Robert Dabney, Systematic Theology.

The man in the skiff at the stern of a man of mar, does not pull the ship to himself, in hauling at the line, but pulls the skiff to the ship. The line is prayer. Prayer does not draw God down to us, but draws us up to God, and thus establishes the connection. - Tin Shenton,quoting Rowland Hill in Rowland Hill, The second Whitefield, p.137

Monday 8 July 2019

Quotes Jul 9

... it seems to me, an atheist, obvious that nowadays it requires more courage, at least in intellectual circles, openly to await a religious faith than to deny the existence of God.  - Theodore Dalrymple, Litter, p.101

'I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn't just that I don't believe in God and, naturally, I hope that I'm right in my belief. It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.'- Thomas Nagel, The Last Word, Oxford University Press, 1997, P. 130

Unless God had raised you up for this very thing , you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils, but if God be for you who can be against you. Go in the name of God and in the power of his might. - John Wesley to Wilberforce, February 1791.

Sunday 7 July 2019

Quotes Jul 8

... welfare dependency is unjust to those who pay for it, and disastrous for those who wind up trapped in it. - - Theodore Dalrymple, Anything Goes, p.22

"The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit ... The great sin ... the dictatorship of pride ... Pride always means enmity."-  CS Lewis

God permits some to suffer most, that they might
experience the deepest joy.
     --William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)
      _Thoughts Of A Christian Optimist_ [1968]

The mind is like the stomach.  It is not how much you
put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
     --Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945)

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.- G K Chesterton

Friday 5 July 2019

Quotes Jul 6

Dissatisfaction is the permanent state of being, at least of civilised mankind. - Theodore Dalrymple, Anything Goes, p.228

If you look at the world, you'll be distressed.
If you look within, you'll be depressed.
But if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest!
     --Corrie Ten Boom (1892-1983)
      (In Rick Warren's
      _The Purpose Driven Life_ [2002], Chapter 25)

The contempt which the liberal left in Britain holds for the likes of Urban and Trump, is because with men are offering a challenge to an international liberal elite that sincerely believes in the rightness of its cause and the inevitability of its triumph. - Robin Aitken, The Noble Liar, p,244

Thursday 4 July 2019

Quotes Jul 5

It is in the nature of plebiscitary regimes that a plebiscites are held until the population gets the answer right according to the leader or to the right thinking elite, whereafter there is no further plebiscire, at least on that subject. - - Theodore Dalrymple, Anything Goes, p.110

The first thing to do with theology is to turn it into praise. J Packer
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Satan wastes no ammunition on those who are dead 
in trespasses and sins. 
     --Corrie Ten Boom (1892-1983) 

Wednesday 3 July 2019

Quotes Jul 4

The two poles of contemporary British child rearing are neglect and overindulgence. -  - Theodore Dalrymple, Anything Goes, p.220

What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils, for it is folly, vice and madness, without tuition or restraint. - Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

Christian democracy protects us form migration, defends the borders, supports the traditional family model of one man one woman, considers the protection of our Christian cultures a natural thing. - Viktor Orban, Prime minister of Hungary quoted in Robin Aitken, The Noble Liar, p,243

Tuesday 2 July 2019

Quotes 3 July

Let me endeavour to lead you out of yourself: let me invite you to look unto Jesus.- John Newton@john__newton

The fact that so many successful politicians are
such shameless liars is not only a reflection on
them, it is also a reflection on us.
When the people want the impossible, only liars
can satisfy. --Thomas Sowell (1930-    ) _Townhall.com_ [May 22, 2012],
"Big Lies In Politic
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And can there be worse sickness, than to know
That we are never well, nor can be so?
John Donne, The First Anniversary

It isn't information people need, it's something to live for. - - Theodore Dalrymple, Second Opinion

Roman Empire: “You Christians are too exclusive. You threaten the social order because you won’t honour all deities.”
Modern West: “You Christians are too exclusive. You threaten the social order because you won’t honour all identities.”—@TimKellerNYC

Monday 1 July 2019

Quotes 2 July

 It’s not how immigrants feel that matters, but how they behave. No one has any idea how British the Polish, Brazilian, Chinese, Vietnamese, and other immigrants (of whom there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions in total) feel, but nobody cares, because none of them is intent upon the destruction of British institutions. This is not true of some unknown and probably unknowable—but possibly not negligible—proportion of Muslims, no matter which part of the Islamic world they come from. - Theodore Dalrymple,  https://theodoredalrymple.wordpress.com/2015/07/31/islamic-terrorism-in-the-west-dalrymple-qa/

European history shows that, first, there's nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, desire to achieve utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before - the outcome was far from happy.- Margaret Thatcher@MrsMThatcher

"Be of good comfort, brother, for we shall have a merry supper with the Lord tonight!"- John Bradford was burned to death with John Leaf at Smithfield, London.1 July 1555

Let me endeavour to lead you out of yourself: let me invite you to look unto Jesus.- John Newton@john__newton

The fact that so many successful politicians are
such shameless liars is not only a reflection on
them, it is also a reflection on us.
When the people want the impossible, only liars
can satisfy. --Thomas Sowell (1930-    ) _Townhall.com_ [May 22, 2012],
"Big Lies In Politics"

Quotes 1 July

“It is with a strange feeling that those of us who came from the Soviet Union look upon the West of today...[W]e contemplate the West from what will be your future, or look back seventy years, to see our past suddenly repeating itself. And what we see is always the same: adults deferring to the opinion of children; the younger generation carried away by shallow worthless ideas; professors scared of being unfashionable; journalists refusing to take responsibility for the words they squander so profusely; universal sympathy for revolutionary extremists; people with serious objections unable or unwilling to voice them; the majority passively obsessed by a feeling of doomed; feeble governments; societies whose defensive reactions have become paralysed; spiritual confusion leading to political upheaval. What will happen as a result of all this lies ahead of us. But the time is near, and from bitter memory we can easily predict what these events will be.” -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ‘Warning to the West’ (Macmillan, 1986), 129-130.

When religious tears (as in New England) are applied to public office, the site is deprived of a wealth of gifts in the unconverted world. -  - Mostyn Roberts, The Subversive Puritan, Roger Williams and Freedom of Conscience, p. 205

The language of protest, pronouncement and proclamation has almost completely replaced the language of persuasion. - Os Guinness, The Case for Civility, p. 137