Do not let us fail one another in interest, care and practical help; but supremely we must not fail one another in prayer.-Michael Baughen

God takes life’s pieces and gives us unbroken peace.-W. D. Gough

Would you have perfect peace in life? Then lay hold on this doctrine of perseverance. Your TRIALS may be many and great. Your cross may be very heavy. But the business of your soul is all conducted according to an "everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure." (2 Sam. 23:5.) All things are working together for your good. Your sorrows are only purifying your soul for glory. Your bereavements are only fashioning you as a polished stone for the temple above, made without hands. From whatever quarter the storms blow, they only drive you nearer to heaven. Whatever weather you may go through it is only ripening you for the garner of God. Your best things are quite safe. Come what will, you shall "never perish.~ J.C. Ryle, Old Paths, “Perseverance”, [Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1999], 516, 517.

Christian leadership models itself upon our Lord Jesus Christ. One of the paradoxes of His ministry was that although He was so obviously the leader, He was conspicuously the servant. He illustrated and underlined this truth when He washed the disciples’ feet (John 13). We are spiritually effective as leaders as we follow His example. Although leaders, we are first and foremost servants.- Derek Prime and Alistair Begg, On Being a Pastor, Moody Press, 2004, p. 219.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him, not the storm without.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace if possible, truth at all costs. ~Martin Luther

Let the man who would hear God speak read Holy Scripture ~Martin Luther

Free will is corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds.~John Owen

Peace is but an illusion when Truth is scourged for the sake of it.~Joel Schaible

Grace is a provision for men who are so fallen that they cannot lift the axe of justice, so corrupt that they cannot change their own natures, so averse to God that they cannot turn to Him, so blind that they cannot see Him, so deaf that they cannot hear Him, and so dead that He Himself must open their graves and lift them into resurrection. -G.S. Bishop

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
I keep my eyes wide open all the time
I keep the ends out for the tie that binds
Because you're mine, I walk the line

I find it very, very easy to be true
I find myself alone when each day's through
Yes, I'll admit that I'm a fool for you
Because you're mine, I walk the line

Johnny Cash (1932-2003)

Mac OS X is like living in a farmhouse in the country with no locks,
and Windows is living in a house with bars on the windows in the bad
part of town.- Charlie Miller, quoted at Daily Tech

We make war that we may live in peace. Aristotle (384-322 BC) _Nicomachean Ethics_, Book 10, Chapter 7

The BBC (Bolcheviks Brainwashing Corporation) - Derek Torrens

If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.-Mark Twain"

Let’s eat Grandma” or “Let’s eat, Grandma”- Punctuation saves lives.



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I had come to like and admire George (Bush). I was asked recently which of the political leaders I had met had the most integrity. I listed George near the top. Some people were aghast... thinking I was joking. He had genuine integrity and as much political courage as any leader I ever met. He was, in a bizarre sense... a true idealist.- Tony Blair

Once, near the end, he asked me whether I thought God wanted him to make the deal that would seal the peace process. I wanted to say yes, but I hesitated; though I was sure God would want peace, God is not a negotiator. Tony Blair on
IAN PAISLEY AND NORTHERN IRELAND PEACE DEAL

The sympathy of Jesus never wearies or slumbers, it never chills or
forgets. It entwines with our every cross—attaches to our every
burden—and frosts with sparkling light, each darkling cloud. - O. Winslow

Most of the verses written about praise in God's Word were voiced by people faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations. ~ Joni Eareckson Tada

Some forms of homosexuality today are of a similar nature, in that they are not just homosexuality but a philosophic expression. One must have understanding for the real homophile's problem. But much modern homosexuality is an expression of the current denial of antithesis. It has led in this case to an obliteration of the distinction between man and woman. So the male and the female as complementary partners are finished. This is a form of homosexuality which is a part of the movement below the line of despair. In much of modern thinking all antithesis and all the order of God's creation is to be fought against — including the male-female distinctions. The pressure toward unisex is largely rooted here. -
Francis A. Schaeffer- THE GOD WHO IS THERE, (DOWNERS GROVE, IL: INTERVARSITY PRESS, 1968), P57.

The vigour of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts. -George Muller

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. - Aesop

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.- Amelia Earhart, 1897 - 1937

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. - Siddhartha Gautama, 563 - 483 BC
(No. If comes from above, but this is Buddhism encapsulated- GJW)

Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. - Francesco Petrarch, 1304 - 1374

Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just. - Dag Hammarskjöld, 1905 - 1961