It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.-Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XVII, 1782

If Islam teaches peace, why do so many of its students flunk?
And after 14 centuries, why haven't its adherents noticed?-Josh Korn, National Post, October 19

We note that the elements appointed by the Lord Jesus are "bread and wine" and that the right to determine these rests with him alone, and not with the temperance movement  of the nineteenth century. While Jesus changed the water into wine, the temperance movement changed wine into grape juice concentrate [or Ribena]. No one has any right to change the elements of the Lord's Supper, any more than water may be replaced in baptism by orange juice. To do this is to usurp the authority of Christ. Robert Letham , The Westminster Assembly: Reading its theology in historical context, P&R, 2009, p. 351, n. 76.

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.- Robert Browning, 1812 - 1889

The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character adequate to meet it when it comes. It does not make life easy; rather it tries to make us great enough for life. - James L. Christensen

I regret the behavior of the Arabs… They brought African children to North Africa, they made them slaves, they sold them like animals, and they took them as slaves and traded them in a shameful way. I regret and I am ashamed when we remember these practices. I apologize for this ...Today we are embarrassed and shocked by these outrageous practices of rich Arabs who had treated their fellow Africans with contempt and condescension.- Moammar Gaddafi, second Afro-Arab summit, Libya 9 Oct 2010

After 9/11 I found it impossible to ignore his (Osama Bin Ladan's) claims that the murderous destrucion of innocent (if infidel) lives is consistent with the Quraan. I looked at the Quran and found it to be so. To me this meant I could no longer be a Muslim. - Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains them, confines them, grooms them for docility. A mind can be cramped just as a body may be, and a Muslim veil blinkers both your vision and your destiny. It is the mark of a kind of Apartheid, not the domination of a race, but of a sex. - Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations   

All human beings are equal, but all cultures and religions are not. ... It is part of Muslim culture to oppress women. ... The culture of the Western Enlightenment is better.- Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

The England admired throughout the world is the England that keeps open house.- J B Priestley quoted in We Are a Muslim, Please by Zaiba Malik

History shows us that the countries that have opened their doors have gained. - J B Priestley quoted in We Are a Muslim, Please by Zaiba Malik

There is no use for the incantation that Islam is a religion of peace. The incantation is false; Islam, like other religions, is theologically a religion of war and a religion of peace. In our time, it is a religion in distress, fought over, hijacked at times, by a militant breed at war with the modern world. -FOUAD AJAMI

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries
of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without
this comfort, be insupportable. --Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) _The Rambler_ [1750-1752], Number 67

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. - Henri Matisse, 1869 - 1954

Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.
- May Sarton, 1912 - 1995

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. - Thomas Aquinas, 1225 - 1274

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. - Frank Herbert

In Conspiracy A Biblical View, Gary North wrote that only three world views are serious contenders, the three which have an an eschatology of victory; biblical Christianity, Islam and Marxism. He wrote before the collapse of the 'evil empire'. Marxism is now only in places like N Korea and Western universities. The contenders are true Christianity and Islam. Unfortunately many Christians have not an eschatology of victory, only seeing things decline until Christ comes.- GJW

Not 'Cogito ergo sum' but 'Amor ergo sum'. I'm loved, therefore I am. - N.T. WRIGHT

Keep, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy Church with thy perpetual mercy: and, because the frailty of man without thee cannot but fall, keep us ever by thy help from all things hurtful, and lead us to all things profitable to our salvation; through Jesus Christ our Lord.- Collect for 12 September, Book Common Prayer

What i don't understand is why you are trying so hard to fit in when you were made to stand out?! - What a Girl Wants

Libertarian free will is a myth. We have only a free will to act according to our nature. Men are sinners. Men thus are free to sin.~ Bret L. McAtee

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out. - Jurgen Habermas (1929 -  )

For the normative self-understanding of modernity, Christianity has functioned as more than just a precursor or catalyst. Universalistic egalitarianism, from which sprang the ideals of freedom and a collective life in solidarity, the autonomous conduct of life and emancipation, the individual morality of conscience, human rights and democracy, is the direct legacy of the Judaic ethic of justice and the Christian ethic of love. This legacy, substantially unchanged, has been the object of a continual critical reappropriation and reinterpretation. Up to this very day there is no alternative to it. And in light of the current challenges of a post-national constellation, we must draw sustenance now, as in the past, from this substance. Everything else is idle postmodern talk. - Jurgen Habermas 


The civilization of Christian Europe was built by people whose purpose was not that of constructing a “Christian civilization”. We owe it to people who believed in Christ, not to people who believed in Christianity. - Rémi Brague


But I think that the lofty idea of `the war on racism' is gradually turning into a hideously false ideology. And this anti-racism will be for the 21st century what communism was for the 20th century. A source of violence. Today, Jews are attacked in the name of anti-racist discourse: the separation fence, `Zionism is racism.'- Alain Finkielkraut


It is certain that Europe will emerge changed from its confrontation with Islam. It is far less certain that Islam will prove assimilable. Europe finds itself in a contest with Islam for the allegiance of its newcomers. For now, Islam is the stronger party in that contest, in an obvious demographic way and in a less obvious philosophical way.... When an insecure, malleable, relativistic culture meets a culture that is anchored, confident, and strengthened by common doctrines, it is generally the former that changes to suit the latter'-Christopher Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West, 

It is certain that the use of singing in churches (which I may mention in passing) is not only very ancient, but was also used by the Apostles, as we may gather from the words of Paul, “I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also,” (1 Cor. 14:15). In like manner he says to the Colossians, “Teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord,” (Col. 3:16). In the former passage, he enjoins us to sing with the voice and the heart; in the latter, he commends spiritual Songs, by which the pious mutually edify each other. That it was not an universal practice, however, is attested by Augustine (Confess. Lib. 9 cap. 7), who states that the church of Milan first began to use singing in the time of Ambrose, when the orthodox faith being persecuted by Justina, the mother of Valentinian, the vigils of the people were more frequent than usual; and that the practice was afterwards followed by the other Western churches. He had said a little before that the custom came from the East. He also intimates (Retract. Lib. 2) that it was received in Africa in his own time. His words are, “Hilarius, a man of tribunitial rank, assailed with the bitterest invectives he could use the custom which then began to exist at Carthage, of singing hymns from the book of Psalms at the altar, either before the oblation, or when it was distributed to the people; I answered him, at the request of my brethren.” And certainly if singing is tempered to a gravity befitting the presence of God and angels, it both gives dignity and grace to sacred actions, and has a very powerful tendency to stir up the mind to true zeal and ardor in prayer. We must, however, carefully beware, lest our ears be more intent on the music than our minds on the spiritual meaning of the words. Augustine confesses (Confess. Lib. 10 cap. 33) that the fear of this danger sometimes made him wish for the introduction of a practice observed by Athanasius, who ordered the reader to use only a gentle inflection of the voice, more akin to recitation than singing. But on again considering how many advantages were derived from singing, he inclined to the other side. If this moderation is used, there cannot be a doubt that the practice is most sacred and salutary. On the other hand, songs composed merely to tickle and delight the ear are unbecoming the majesty of the Church, and cannot but be most displeasing to God.- John Calvin, Institutes, Book III, Chapter 20, Section 32

Is there a real Islam? Or just Islams? - John Edward Philips

We live in a world possessed. And we know it, Johan Huizinga, 1935, in Bob Goudzwaard 1967-2007, Idols of Our Time Foreword by Howard Snyder and edited by Mark Vander Vennen, Intervarsity Press, Downer’s Grove, 1984

What is the goal toward which we are heading? The peaceful enjoyment of liberty and equality; the reign of that eternal justice whose laws have been inscribed, not in marble and stone, but in the hearts of all men, even in that of the slave who forgets them and in that of the tyrant who denies them.- MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE, THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF TERROR, SPEECH TO THE CONVENTION, FEBRUARY 5, 1794, the Reign of Terror, which ended with his arrest and execution in 1794

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Islam entered Europe twice and left it... Perhaps
the next conquest, Allah willing, will be by means of
preaching and ideology. The conquest need not
necessarily be by the sword... Perhaps we will
conquer these lands without armies. We want an
army of preachers and teachers who will present
Islam in all languages and in all dialects. – Yusuf
al-Qaradawi, a popular Sunni Muslim cleric, head of
the European Council for Fatwa and Research

Language has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone, and the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Johannes Tillich, 1886 - 1965

If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.
- Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910

We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
- George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, "I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked." - Jerry Seinfield

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Where do you tall a Muslim to start reading?

Last night I met with T an illegal immigrant for six years and now detained awaiting deportation. He asked me for a bible in Hausa and one was given to him. Where do you tell a Muslim to start reading? I suggested Genesis, Psalms and Matthew. What do you think?

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Why is it that we can't get a child to read the Bible at home, but when in prison they will!

Either the Bible will keep you away from sin, or sin will keep you away from the Bible!

Before you complain, read the Book.

Just as the Holy Spirit came upon the womb of Mary, so He came upon the brain of a Moses, a David, an Isaiah, a Paul, a John and the rest of the writers of the divine library. The power of the Highest overshadowed them, therefore that holy thing which was born of their minds is called the Holy Bible, the word of God. The writing of Luke will, of course, have the vocabulary of Luke and the work of Paul will bear the stamp of Paul s mind. However, this is only in the same manner that the Lord Jesus might have had eyes like his mother s or hair that was the same color and texture as hers. He did not inherit her sins because the Holy Spirit has come upon her. If we ask, how could this be, the answer is God says so. And the writings of men of the Book did not inherit the errors of their carnal minds because their writings were conceived by the Holy Spirit and born out of their personalities without partaking of their fallen nature. If we ask, how could this be, again the answer is God says so. -- DONALD GREY BARNHOUSE,

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