Whether we like it or not, a breakdown in home-life will eventually lead to a breakdown everywhere. This is, surely, the most menacing & dangerous aspect of the state of society at this present time. Once the family
idea, the family unit, the family life is broken up, soon you will have no other allegiance. ~ Martyn Lloyd-Jones
If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.- George Orwell, 1903 - 1950
In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.- George Orwell, 1903 - 1950
Since the days before Pentecost, has the whole church ever
put aside every other work and waited upon Him for ten days,
that [the Spirit's] power might be manifested? ... We give too
much attention to method and machinery and resources, and too
little to the source of power.- J. Hudson Taylor (1832-1905), "The Source of Power for Christian Missions", in The Missionary Review of the World, v. LIII, Missionary Review Publishing Co., Inc., 1930, p. 516
Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.- John Wesley, 1703 - 1791
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Saturday, 23 October 2010
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are
distant and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by
degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by
external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary
influence of example."
-- Samuel Johnson: Milton (Lives of the Poets)
A church family will help keep you from backsliding.
None of us are immune to temptation. Given the
right situation, you and I are capable of any sin.
God knows this, so he has assigned us as individuals
the responsibility of keeping each other on track.
The Bible says, "Encourage one another daily . . .
so that none of you may be hardened by sin's
deceitfulness" (Hebrews 3:13).
--Rick Warren (1954- )
_The Purpose Driven Life_ [2002], Chapter 17
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.-Benjamin Disraeli, 1804 - 1881
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.-Benjamin Disraeli, 1804 - 1881
No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home.-Benjamin Disraeli, 1804 - 1881
distant and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by
degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by
external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary
influence of example."
-- Samuel Johnson: Milton (Lives of the Poets)
A church family will help keep you from backsliding.
None of us are immune to temptation. Given the
right situation, you and I are capable of any sin.
God knows this, so he has assigned us as individuals
the responsibility of keeping each other on track.
The Bible says, "Encourage one another daily . . .
so that none of you may be hardened by sin's
deceitfulness" (Hebrews 3:13).
--Rick Warren (1954- )
_The Purpose Driven Life_ [2002], Chapter 17
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.-Benjamin Disraeli, 1804 - 1881
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.-Benjamin Disraeli, 1804 - 1881
No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home.-Benjamin Disraeli, 1804 - 1881
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
We crave the velvet touch of grace for our own battered lives but instinctively want to hammer the struggling lives surrounding us with law.- Matt Redmond
Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions.- Alan Keyes
The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family: We remain connected, even against our wills. - Anthony Brandt
The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. - Erma Louise Bombeck, 1927 - 1996
The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding, and social peace. - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 1927 - 2003
The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 1929 - 1994
I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families, sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much. - Russell Baker
Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions.- Alan Keyes
The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family: We remain connected, even against our wills. - Anthony Brandt
The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. - Erma Louise Bombeck, 1927 - 1996
The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding, and social peace. - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 1927 - 2003
The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 1929 - 1994
I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families, sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much. - Russell Baker
Friday, 2 July 2010
3 Jul 10
The longer I live the clearer does it appear that John Calvin’s system is the nearest to perfection.~Charles Spurgeon
Anything that hurts the home is a curse and ought to be hunted down.. ~ Spurgeon
Long before I believed Theology to be true, I had already
decided that the popular scientific picture at any rate was
false. One absolutely central inconsistency ruins it... The
whole picture professes to depend on inferences from observed
facts. Unless inference is valid, the whole picture disappears.
Unless we can be sure that reality in the remotest nebula or
the remotest part obeys the thought-laws of the human scientist
here and now in his laboratory--in other words, unless Reason
is an absolute--all is in ruins. Yet those who ask me to
believe this world-picture also ask me to believe that Reason
is simply the unforeseen and unintended by-product of mindless
matter at one stage of its endless and aimless becoming. Here
is flat contradiction. They ask me at the same moment to accept
a conclusion and to discredit the only testimony on which that
conclusion can be based. The difficulty is to me a fatal one;
and the fact that when you put it to many scientists, far from
having an answer, they seem not even to understand what the
difficulty is, assures me that I have not found a mare's nest
but detected a radical disease in their whole mode of thought
from the very beginning. The man who has once understood the
situation is compelled henceforth to regard the scientific
cosmology as being, in principle, a myth--though no doubt a
great many true particulars have been worked into it.-C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), "Is Theology Poetry?", in They Asked for a Paper, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1962, p 162
Anything that hurts the home is a curse and ought to be hunted down.. ~ Spurgeon
Long before I believed Theology to be true, I had already
decided that the popular scientific picture at any rate was
false. One absolutely central inconsistency ruins it... The
whole picture professes to depend on inferences from observed
facts. Unless inference is valid, the whole picture disappears.
Unless we can be sure that reality in the remotest nebula or
the remotest part obeys the thought-laws of the human scientist
here and now in his laboratory--in other words, unless Reason
is an absolute--all is in ruins. Yet those who ask me to
believe this world-picture also ask me to believe that Reason
is simply the unforeseen and unintended by-product of mindless
matter at one stage of its endless and aimless becoming. Here
is flat contradiction. They ask me at the same moment to accept
a conclusion and to discredit the only testimony on which that
conclusion can be based. The difficulty is to me a fatal one;
and the fact that when you put it to many scientists, far from
having an answer, they seem not even to understand what the
difficulty is, assures me that I have not found a mare's nest
but detected a radical disease in their whole mode of thought
from the very beginning. The man who has once understood the
situation is compelled henceforth to regard the scientific
cosmology as being, in principle, a myth--though no doubt a
great many true particulars have been worked into it.-C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), "Is Theology Poetry?", in They Asked for a Paper, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1962, p 162
Thursday, 1 July 2010
2 Jul 10
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.-Martin Luther
For anything good in our children we take no credit. it is by the grace of God. For anything bad we take no blame. it is their responsibility.- The rule of child rearing from parents who had eight.
I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men! And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? —We have been assured, sir, in the sacred writings that, ‘except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it.’ I firmly believe this; and I also believe, that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall be become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages…
I therefore beg leave to move, that henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business; and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service.-Benjamin Franklin in Timothy Pitkin, A Political and Civil History of the United States of America, vol. 2 (New Haven, CT: Hezekiah House, 1828), 246.
For anything good in our children we take no credit. it is by the grace of God. For anything bad we take no blame. it is their responsibility.- The rule of child rearing from parents who had eight.
I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men! And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? —We have been assured, sir, in the sacred writings that, ‘except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it.’ I firmly believe this; and I also believe, that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall be become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages…
I therefore beg leave to move, that henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business; and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service.-Benjamin Franklin in Timothy Pitkin, A Political and Civil History of the United States of America, vol. 2 (New Haven, CT: Hezekiah House, 1828), 246.
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
23 Jun 10
It's not up to governments to try and create happy families. Where we can help is by taking down the barriers that stop parents from giving their children the best upbringing possible.- Nick Clegg
It is not persecution of the church in China that I fear. The church has always been able to weather persecution. My fear is love of money in the church.~ Anonymous Chinese Pastor
We do not want to hear our children say when they are thirty what the rich young ruler said to Jesus after Jesus listed the commandments, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.” Here is the great commandment keeper. Here is the compliant kid who did what he was told. He kept the commandments.
But when Jesus put him to the test and said he lacked one thing: “Sell what you have, give it to the poor, and follow me” (Mark 10:21), he couldn’t do it. He had no heart for Christ. Rule-keeping? Yes. Treasuring Jesus? No. He was dead. He had no affections for Christ. He was simply a good rule-keeper. And he said that it goes all the way back to his youth: “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.” His parents said do, and he did. - John Piper
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego. The self is more distant than any star. ~ G. K. Chesterton
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing. - G.K. Chesterton
Graham J Weeks M.R.Pharm.S
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Overindulgence in media and technology creates a soul that is nourished by distraction-.AlbertMohler
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It is not persecution of the church in China that I fear. The church has always been able to weather persecution. My fear is love of money in the church.~ Anonymous Chinese Pastor
We do not want to hear our children say when they are thirty what the rich young ruler said to Jesus after Jesus listed the commandments, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.” Here is the great commandment keeper. Here is the compliant kid who did what he was told. He kept the commandments.
But when Jesus put him to the test and said he lacked one thing: “Sell what you have, give it to the poor, and follow me” (Mark 10:21), he couldn’t do it. He had no heart for Christ. Rule-keeping? Yes. Treasuring Jesus? No. He was dead. He had no affections for Christ. He was simply a good rule-keeper. And he said that it goes all the way back to his youth: “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.” His parents said do, and he did. - John Piper
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego. The self is more distant than any star. ~ G. K. Chesterton
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing. - G.K. Chesterton
Graham J Weeks M.R.Pharm.S
http://www.christiansquoting.org.uk 10201 quotes 654 topics 2452 authors indexed
http://www.ipc-ealing.co.uk/ Our church
http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/Christiansquoting Daily quotes
http://christianquoter.blogspot.com/ My blog
http://www.cpaparty.org.uk/ Christian politics
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Overindulgence in media and technology creates a soul that is nourished by distraction-.AlbertMohler
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