Quotes 31 Aug

"Many are the fiery darts of the wicked one; but our shield is one. The shield of faith not only quenches fiery darts, but it breaks arrows of steel."- Charles Spurgeon

Harrison Brown,around 1970 a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated the humanity would totally run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver would be gone before 1990.

Christ took your cup of grief, your cup of the curse, pressed it to His lips, drank it to its dregs--then filled it with His sweet, pardoning, sympathising love, and gave it back for you to drink, and to drink forever!-Octavius Winslow (1808-1878)

Quotes 30 Aug

Christ is not sweet--until sin is made bitter to us!- -John Flavel, (1628-1691)

Ecologist Kenneth Watt declared,around 1970 “By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.'”

Out of Christ's condemnation--flows our justification!
Out of His agony--comes our victory!
Out of His pain--comes our ease!
Out of His stripes--comes our healing!
Out of His gall and vinegar--comes our honey!
Out of His curse--comes our blessing!
Out of His crown of thorns--comes our crown of glory!
Out of His death--comes our life!
O what a melting consideration is this!-John Flavel, (1628-1691)

Quotes 29 Aug

Europe is not based on a common language, culture and values... Europe is a result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure; only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.- - Margaret Thatcher@MrsMThatcher

Paul Ehrlich warned in the May 1970 issue of Audubon that DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons “may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945.” Ehrlich warned that Americans born since 1946…now had a life expectancy of only 49 years, and he predicted that if current patterns continued this expectancy would reach 42 years by 1980, when it might level out. (Note: According to the most recent CDC report, life expectancy in the US is 78.8 years).

Jesus is the fountain, ocean, and centre of all delights and joys!-John Flavel, (1628-1691)

Quotes Aug 28

“The best and wisest thing in the world is to work as if it all depended upon you, and then trust in God, knowing that it all depends upon him.”- Spurgeon

Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in 1970 that “air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during “smog disasters” in New York and Los Angeles.

The servants of the Lord are to sing his praises in this life to the world's end; and in the next life, world without end.—John Boys

Quotes Aug 27

I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society, from a give-it-to-me to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.- Margaret Thatcher@MrsMThatcher

Barry Commoner predicted around 1970 that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America’s rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate.

Never until the nineteenth century was it supposed that the Church or Temple was a sort of side-show that nothing to do with the State.-G. K. Chesterton@GKCdaily

Quotes Aug 26

A husband is head of his wife. He should not love to lead as much as he should lead to love.- Gavin Peacock@GPeacock8

When you hear of a notorious sinner, instead of thinking you do well to be angry, beg of Jesus Christ to convert, and make him a monument of his free grace; you cannot imagine..how much you will increase day by day in the spirit of love and meekness towards all mankind!- George Whitefield@WhitefieldG

Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time around 1970 that, “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”

Quotes 24 Aug

"David no sooner escaped from one trial than he fell into another, no sooner emerged from one season of despondency and alarm than he was again brought into the lowest depths and all God's waves and billows rolled over him." —CH Spurgeon

We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. This is what we mean by a moral society; not a society where the state is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the state.- Margaret Thatcher
@MrsMThatcher

In January 1970, Life reported, “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”

Quotes 23 Aug

Eternal God, to whom all power & empire appertain, grant ... that those whom thou has appointed rulers & governors over us may so discharge their duty & office that the glory of thy most holy name may be advanced~ Prayers on the Psalms (@BannerofTruth), ed. by David B. Calhoun

"[T]o read the New Testament at any point is an exercise that drives us back into the Old Testament. We cannot be genuine New Testament readers and believers without knowing, probing and understanding the Old.....[W]ithout the Old Testament we do not know Jesus properly. The Old Testament lays down the ground rules, and the ground interpretation, and is the perfect lens through which to view the One who has come to be our Saviour." Alec Motyer

Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”

Quotes 22 Aug

“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.

Most outcomes of modern education are uneducated men. Our education is uneducation; its whole tendency is to unteach people the traditions of their fathers. - G. K. Chesterton
@GKCdaily

Mary had chosen that good part which would not be taken from her (Luke 10:42). Everything else can be taken from you - money, friends etc. But if you have embraced the Lamb of God, you have that good part which shall never be taken from you.- Robert Murray M'Cheyn@NearToGod

Quotes 21 Aug

·Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the “Great Die-Off.”

God abhors them worst who adore themselves most.— William Secker

Within the gates of the new Jerusalem there is nothing but praise. Be sure that if you do not love to praise God here, you will not love it hereafter. If you are not redeemed now, you will not sing the song of the redeemed then.- Robert Murray M'Cheyne@NearToGod
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Quotes 20 Aug

It is our duty not to confine our petitions to our own nation, but to pray that all those nations, who now sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, may have the glorious gospel shine out upon them, as well as upon us.- George Whitefield@WhitefieldG

“The fashion in the European Union when the people vote the wrong way from the way that the elites want to go, is to make the peasants vote again and again until they get it right.”-John BoltonU.S. National Security Adviser, Former Ambassador to the United Nations,August 2019
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“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 issue of Mademoiselle. “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”

Quotes 19 Aug

The greatest issue before our country is whether Britain is to remain a free, independent, nation-state. Or whether we are to be dissolved in a federal Europe. There are no half measures, no third ways – and no second chances.- Margaret Thatcher@MrsMThatcher

"In the world of political correctness there is no presumption of innocence, but only a hunger for targets"- Roger Scruton Quotes@Scruton_Quotes

“Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born,” wrote Paul Ehrlich in a 1969 essay titled “Eco-Catastrophe! “By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”

Quotes 17 Aug

Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, some body of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.- Margaret Thatcher@MrsMThatcher

The normalization of immorality:
1. Desensitize: make immorality more palatable and visible, convincing the culture it is good.
2. Demonize: make those who oppose immorality appear to be intolerant, bigots.
3. Demand: make everyone not only accept but celebrate immorality.Gavin Peacock@GPeacock8

‘Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.’-CS Lewis

Harvard biologist George Wald estimated around 1970 that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”

Quotes 16 Aug

“Tell me, do you glory in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ? Would you willingly and gladly spend all your days in singing the praise of this Son of God who loved you and gave himself for you?”Martyn Lloyd-Jones@D_M_LloydJones

Liberalism today, in rejecting its Christian roots, is cut off from all limits, all common sense, from a living tradition. It is careening down ever more febrile paths of identity politics, rejecting the Christian universalism from which it sprang. It is harming people in the process. Sociologists have established beyond reasonable doubt that religious belief and practice lead to the greatest human happiness.There is, however, only one reason that counts for believing in Christianity: it’s true. Come on in, the water’s fine.-Greg Sheridan, https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/08/the-west-cannot-survive-without-a-re-energised-belief-in-christianity/

“The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead."- C. S. Lewis
@CSLewisDaily

Quotes Aug 14

My grand point in preaching is to break the
hard heart, and to heal the broken one.
     --John Newton (1725-1807)

Crowns of roses fade--crowns of thorns endure.
Calvaries and crucifixions take deepest hold
of humanity.
The triumphs of might are transient--they pass and
are forgotten.  The sufferings of right are graven
deepest on the chronicle of nations.
--Abram Joseph Ryan (1838-1886)
      _A Land Without Ruins_ (poem)

The best definition of wisdom I have found is from
the Old Testament scholar Tremper Longman.
He wrote: "Wisdom is the skill of living.  It is a practical
     knowledge that helps one know how to act
     and how to speak in different situations.
     Wisdom entails the ability to avoid problems,
     and the skill to handle them when they present
     themselves.Wisdom includes the ability to interpret other
     people's speech and writing in order to react
     correctly to what they are saying to us."
A simpler definition of wisdom is this: "doing the
right thing without a precedent."
The believer who can respond to an unexpected
situation in the same way Christ would is someone
who has biblical wisdom, who has the mind of Christ.
--David Jeremiah (1941-    )

Quotes 12 Aug

May we sit at the foot of the cross and there learn . . .what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done. - JOHN NEWTON - 1725-1807

...once you start down the road of equality of outcome as the measure of justice, rather than equality under the law, you start dividing humans into groups, and one of the most obvious ways to do so is race. So, having spent years denying that there is any objective reality to racial classifications, liberals start sifting people into racial categories with an obsessiveness that puts South African policemen under the old régime to shame.- T Dalrymple  https://theodoredalrymple.wordpress.com/2018/10/23/more-victimised-than-thou/

She couldn't read clock time very well, but she
knew when the hands were closed in prayer
at the top of the face she was through for
the day.
     --Toni Morrison (1931-2019)
      _Beloved_ [1987], Part II

Quotes 10 Aug

Can we wish, if it were possible, to walk in a path strewed with flowers when His path was strewed with thorns? JOHN NEWTON - 1725-1807

Do not turn away, through cowardice, from despair.
Go through it. . . . Pass beyond.
On the other side of the tunnel you will find light.
--Andre Gide (1869-1951)
      _Journals_ [1928]

The great mischief of most men is that they
procrastinate.  It is not that they resolve to
be damned, but that they resolve to be
saved tomorrow.
     --C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)
      _Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 10 [1864]

Quotes 9 Aug

When a wise man speaks, there is something in everything he says that is very distinguishable from the talk of a little child. How much more is the speech of God in his written word to be distinguished from the wisest of men.- Jonathan Edwards@Edwards_SDG

Many today find the idea of an angry God to be distasteful, even though modern people agree widely that to be passionate for justice does entail rightful anger.- Timothy Keller@timkellernyc

Delay is the devil's great net.  All men mean to
repent.  Alas!  they will repent one day that
they did not repent at once.
     --C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)
      _Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 14 [1868]

Quotes 8 Aug

I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.- JOHN NEWTON - 1725-1807

"While it looks like things are out of control, behind the scenes there is a God who has not surrendered authority." - AW Tozer
@TozerAW

Idleness tempts the devil to tempt. —Thomas Watson

Quoes 7 Aug

Our sea may sometimes be stormy but we have an infallible Pilot, and shall infallibly gain our port.- JOHN NEWTON - 1725-1807

Now that life is almost at an end for us, the light
into which we shall enter at our death begins to
shine and to show us what are realities and
what are not.
     --Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916)

In baptism we have God's own covenant ingraven is it were in our own bodies.
—John Calvin

Quotes 6 Aug

We can trust God in the darkness because we're not in the dark about God.
- Os Guiness

... social conservatives, who take a different view on things like divorce, homosexuality and the secularisation of gender are excluded from BBC discussion programmes and their points are not taken up. - Robin Aiken, https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/08/02/the-bbc-is-failing-in-its-obligation-to-be-fair/?fbclid=IwAR0ezTxtOJOEwaYdRF4CGqmuSytfhPDvEchW1dVZpWhMvyFUkGNF8FNuUfU

How unspeakably wonderful it is to know that all our concerns are held in those hands which bled for us!- JOHN NEWTON - 1725-1807

Quotes Aug 5

We can trust God in the darkness because we're not in the dark about God.
- Os Guiness

... social conservatives, who take a different view on things like divorce, homosexuality and the secularisation of gender are excluded from BBC discussion programmes and their points are not taken up. - Robin Aiken, https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/08/02/the-bbc-is-failing-in-its-obligation-to-be-fair/?fbclid=IwAR0ezTxtOJOEwaYdRF4CGqmuSytfhPDvEchW1dVZpWhMvyFUkGNF8FNuUfU

The more vile we are in our own eyes the more precious Christ will be to us. - JOHN NEWTON - 1725-1807

Quotes 2 Aug

Every one who comes to Christ must embark on a journey through the wilderness of this world. Some have a long journey and others have a short journey. Either way, Christ prays that at the end of the journey, you may be with Him (John 17:24).- Robert Murray M'Cheyne@NearToGod

"The human will does not obtain grace by freedom but obtains freedom by grace." -John Calvin, Inst. 2:3:13

"People have a lack of sense of the depth of human life. We’re in a post-religious world where people are hungry for the transcendental. Though they don't know how to describe it, it's what they're missing"- Roger Scruton
@Scruton_Quotes

Remorse is the poison of life.
     --"Edward Rochester"
       (A character in Emily Bronte's
       _Jane Eyre_ [1847], Chapter 14)