4 Feb 17

To love anyone is nothing else than to wish that person good.--Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274)

In fact most of the social pathology exhibited by the underclass has its origins in ideas that have filtered down from the intelligentsia. Of nothing is this more true than the system of sexual relations that now prevails in the underclass, with the result that 70 per cent of the births in my hospital are now illegitimate...The climate of moral, cultural, and intellectual relativism, a relativism that began as a mere fashionable plaything for the intellectuals, has been successfully communicated to those least able to resist its devastating practical effects. - T. Dalrymple

3 Feb 17

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet in the grave. - Matthew Henry

The pious man and the atheist always talk of religion; the one speaks of what he loves, and the other of what he fears. --Baron de Montesquieu (Charles Louis de Secondat) (1689—1755) _The Spirit of the Laws_, vol. 2, bk. XXV, ch. I [1748]

2 Feb 17

The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human 

baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to 

talk like any other child. The more you think about 

it, the more staggering it gets.  Nothing in fiction 

is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation. 

     --J.I. Packer (1926-    ) 

      _Knowing God_ [1973] 

Many of the Bible characters fell just in the things 

in which they were thought to be strongest.  Moses 

failed in his humility, Abraham in his faith, Elijah 

in his courage, for one woman scared him away to 

that juniper-tree; and Peter, whose strong point was 

boldness, was so frightened by a maid, as to deny 

his Lord. 

     --Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899) 

      (In Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert's 

      _Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers_ [1895])

Quotes 1 Feb 2017

To know love is to know pain because over all love there stands written,’Till death us do part.’ But God promises reunion. We shall be  ‘together’. They will not come to us but we shall go to them. 2Sam 12:23. Donald MacLeod, A Faith to Live By.

Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless. - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) (Quoted in Rick Warren's _The Purpose Driven Life_ [2002], Chapter 1)

Quotes for 31 Jan 17

Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science - he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God. - Abraham Kuyper

When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad. ―D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.- Abraham Lincoln, 1809 - 1865

He was poor, that he might make us rich.
He was born of a virgin that we might be born of God.
He took our flesh, that he might give us His Spirit.
He lay in the manger, that we may lie in paradise.
He came down from heaven, that he might bring us to heaven....
That the ancient of Days should be born.
that he who thunders in the heavens should cry in the cradle....
that he who rules the stars should suck the breast;
that a virgin should conceive;
that Christ should be made of a woman, and of that woman which himself made,
that the branch should bear the vine,
that the mother should be younger than the child she bare,
and the child in the womb bigger than the mother;
that the human nature should not be God, yet one with God
Christ taking flesh is a mystery we shall never fully understand till we come to heaven- Thomas Watson

I'm back!

It has been a  long time since I was active here but the arrival a new member has wakened me from my slumbers,or to be more accurate from my depression induced inactivity. Enjoy.

In the course of my life I have developed five little democratic questions. If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: “What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?” If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.- Tony Benn

A Nation ... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry and a common dislike of their neighbours. - Karl Deutsch, Nationality and Its Alternatives, 1969