Humans: We're good defence lawyers when it comes to our own sins. We're good judges when it comes to the sins of others - Joshua D Jones@BlueCheezWhisky
"Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away Paradise. Therefore in all temptations let us consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose." - Sibbes
“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?”
- CSLewis
Is government sometimes useful and necessary?
“So is a doctor. But suppose the dear fellow claimed the right, every time he was called in to prescribe for a bellyache or a ringing in the ears, to raid the family silver, use the family tooth-brushes, and execute the droit de seigneur upon the housemaid?” H.L Mencken
Repentance is “spiritual medicine” composed of six ingredients:
1. Sight of sin
2. Sorrow for sin
3. Confession of sin
4. Shame for sin
5. Hatred for sin
6. Turning from sin
— Thomas Watson (1620–1686)
Friday, 8 June 2018
Thursday, 7 June 2018
Quotes 8 Jun IM Mohammed 8 Jun 632
Take to learning as far as possible, but God will not give it's rewards until you translate it into action. -- Mohammed, Hadith
Allah has made a medicine for every disease except old age. Hadith, Abu Dawud vol.3 no.3846 p.1083
Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature. Mohammed (570-632 A.D.)
I passed by a party of men in the night of my ascension to heaven. Their tongues were being cut with scissors. I asked them: "Who are you? They said: 'We used to give advice to others for good deeds but we used not to do them. We used to prohibit evil deeds to others, but we used to do them' ". -- Mohammed, Hadith
O God, don't allow a sinner to do good to me as my mind may wish to love him. -- Mohammed, Hadith
Whoever renounces his religion, kill him. - Muhammad in the hadith, Sahih al Bukhari's collection
Allah has made a medicine for every disease except old age. Hadith, Abu Dawud vol.3 no.3846 p.1083
Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature. Mohammed (570-632 A.D.)
I passed by a party of men in the night of my ascension to heaven. Their tongues were being cut with scissors. I asked them: "Who are you? They said: 'We used to give advice to others for good deeds but we used not to do them. We used to prohibit evil deeds to others, but we used to do them' ". -- Mohammed, Hadith
O God, don't allow a sinner to do good to me as my mind may wish to love him. -- Mohammed, Hadith
Whoever renounces his religion, kill him. - Muhammad in the hadith, Sahih al Bukhari's collection
Quotes 7 Jun
This principled stand has allowed More to be portrayed as a martyr, a man who died for his principles. Hmm. More lied to Parliament, lied to the public, tortured his opponents and reintroduced the burning of heretics. For which he was canonised and made the patron saint of politicians and statesmen. You couldn't make it .- Up A nearly infallible history of the Reformation by Nick Page Page 251
"William Penn (1644-1718) had expressed ... "If we are not governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants." This consensus was as natural as breathing in the United States at that time. We must not forget that many of those who came to America from Europe came for religious purposes. As they arrived, most of them established their own individual civil governments based upon the Bible. It is, therefore, totally foreign to the basic nature of America at the time of the writing of the Constitution to argue a separation doctrine that implies a secular state."- Dr. Francis Schaeffer, A Christian Manifesto.
Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits, aflame with righteousness, did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
~Alexis de Tocqueville
Moses spent 40 years thinking he was somebody; 40 learning he was nobody; and 40 discovering what God can do with a nobody.— D. L. Moody
In times of adversity believers comfort themselves with the solace that they suffer nothing except by God's ordinance and command. - John Calvin
"William Penn (1644-1718) had expressed ... "If we are not governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants." This consensus was as natural as breathing in the United States at that time. We must not forget that many of those who came to America from Europe came for religious purposes. As they arrived, most of them established their own individual civil governments based upon the Bible. It is, therefore, totally foreign to the basic nature of America at the time of the writing of the Constitution to argue a separation doctrine that implies a secular state."- Dr. Francis Schaeffer, A Christian Manifesto.
Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits, aflame with righteousness, did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
~Alexis de Tocqueville
Moses spent 40 years thinking he was somebody; 40 learning he was nobody; and 40 discovering what God can do with a nobody.— D. L. Moody
In times of adversity believers comfort themselves with the solace that they suffer nothing except by God's ordinance and command. - John Calvin
Tuesday, 5 June 2018
Quotes 6 Jun
It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilisations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendours.” - C S Lewis – St Mary’s Church in Oxford (1941)
Many people who claim to be trans gender suffer from gender dysphoria, the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which lists gender dysphoria as a mental disorder. We are called to love them and care for them. This involves creating opportunities to provide them with the best psychiatric treatment -
Jules Gomes,https://republicstandard.com/untitled-recruiting-mentally-dysfunctional-clergy-to-run-the-anglican-asylum/
Man has lost his ability to look to the stars to navigate the world and Christians have lost their ability to look to God’s word to navigate their life.” - Claude Hickman, The Traveling Team
“The most important time to be at church is when you don’t feel like it.”
The Most Important Time to Go to Church - David ‘Gunner’ Gundersen https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/most-important-time-to-go-to-church/
A wife is easily taken, but to have abiding love, that is the challenge. One who finds it in his marriage should thank the Lord for it. Therefore, approach marriage earnestly and ask God to give you a good pious girl, with whom you can spend your life in mutual love .For sex (alone) establishes nothing in this regard: there must also be agreement in values and character. Martin Luther quoted in A nearly infallible history of the Reformation by Nick Page Page 167
Many people who claim to be trans gender suffer from gender dysphoria, the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which lists gender dysphoria as a mental disorder. We are called to love them and care for them. This involves creating opportunities to provide them with the best psychiatric treatment -
Jules Gomes,https://republicstandard.com/untitled-recruiting-mentally-dysfunctional-clergy-to-run-the-anglican-asylum/
Man has lost his ability to look to the stars to navigate the world and Christians have lost their ability to look to God’s word to navigate their life.” - Claude Hickman, The Traveling Team
“The most important time to be at church is when you don’t feel like it.”
The Most Important Time to Go to Church - David ‘Gunner’ Gundersen https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/most-important-time-to-go-to-church/
A wife is easily taken, but to have abiding love, that is the challenge. One who finds it in his marriage should thank the Lord for it. Therefore, approach marriage earnestly and ask God to give you a good pious girl, with whom you can spend your life in mutual love .For sex (alone) establishes nothing in this regard: there must also be agreement in values and character. Martin Luther quoted in A nearly infallible history of the Reformation by Nick Page Page 167
Monday, 4 June 2018
Quotes 5 Jun
“I meet young people, and they want to act and they want to be famous, and I tell them, when you get to the top of the tree, there’s nothing up there. Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie. Accept life as it is. Just be grateful to be alive.”— Anthony Hopkins
Work keeps us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty.-Voltaire (1694-1778)
_Candide_ [1759], Chapter 3
The essence of racism is the idea that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective—the race—is the source of his identity and value. To the racist, the individual's moral and intellectual character is the product, not of his own choices, but of the genes he shares with all others of his race. To the racist, the particular members of a given race are interchangeable. --Peter Schwartz, The Racism of “Diversity” http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=20282
Love is never primarily defined in the Bible as a feeling. At its foundation love is at least a commitment and a promise. - @timkellernyc
Wilt thou love God as he thee ? then digest,
My soul, this wholesome meditation,
How God the Spirit, by angels waited on
In heaven, doth make His temple in thy breast.
The Father having begot a Son most blest,
And still begetting—for he ne'er begun—
Hath deign'd to choose thee by adoption,
Co-heir to His glory, and Sabbath' endless rest.
And as a robb'd man, which by search doth find
His stolen stuff sold, must lose or buy it again,
The Sun of glory came down, and was slain,
Us whom He had made, and Satan stole, to unbind.
'Twas much, that man was made like God before,
But, that God should be made like man, much more.
John Donne
Work keeps us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty.-Voltaire (1694-1778)
_Candide_ [1759], Chapter 3
The essence of racism is the idea that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective—the race—is the source of his identity and value. To the racist, the individual's moral and intellectual character is the product, not of his own choices, but of the genes he shares with all others of his race. To the racist, the particular members of a given race are interchangeable. --Peter Schwartz, The Racism of “Diversity” http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=20282
Love is never primarily defined in the Bible as a feeling. At its foundation love is at least a commitment and a promise. - @timkellernyc
Wilt thou love God as he thee ? then digest,
My soul, this wholesome meditation,
How God the Spirit, by angels waited on
In heaven, doth make His temple in thy breast.
The Father having begot a Son most blest,
And still begetting—for he ne'er begun—
Hath deign'd to choose thee by adoption,
Co-heir to His glory, and Sabbath' endless rest.
And as a robb'd man, which by search doth find
His stolen stuff sold, must lose or buy it again,
The Sun of glory came down, and was slain,
Us whom He had made, and Satan stole, to unbind.
'Twas much, that man was made like God before,
But, that God should be made like man, much more.
John Donne
Sunday, 3 June 2018
Quotes 4 Jun
“I meet young people, and they want to act and they want to be famous, and I tell them, when you get to the top of the tree, there’s nothing up there. Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie. Accept life as it is. Just be grateful to be alive.”— Anthony Hopkins
Work keeps us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty.-Voltaire (1694-1778)
_Candide_ [1759], Chapter 3
The essence of racism is the idea that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective—the race—is the source of his identity and value. To the racist, the individual's moral and intellectual character is the product, not of his own choices, but of the genes he shares with all others of his race. To the racist, the particular members of a given race are interchangeable. --Peter Schwartz, The Racism of “Diversity”
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=20282
Love is never primarily defined in the Bible as a feeling. At its foundation love is at least a commitment and a promise. - @timkellernyc
Wilt thou love God as he thee ? then digest,
My soul, this wholesome meditation,
How God the Spirit, by angels waited on
In heaven, doth make His temple in thy breast.
The Father having begot a Son most blest,
And still begetting—for he ne'er begun—
Hath deign'd to choose thee by adoption,
Co-heir to His glory, and Sabbath' endless rest.
And as a robb'd man, which by search doth find
His stolen stuff sold, must lose or buy it again,
The Sun of glory came down, and was slain,
Us whom He had made, and Satan stole, to unbind.
'Twas much, that man was made like God before,
But, that God should be made like man, much more.
John Donne
Work keeps us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty.-Voltaire (1694-1778)
_Candide_ [1759], Chapter 3
The essence of racism is the idea that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective—the race—is the source of his identity and value. To the racist, the individual's moral and intellectual character is the product, not of his own choices, but of the genes he shares with all others of his race. To the racist, the particular members of a given race are interchangeable. --Peter Schwartz, The Racism of “Diversity”
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=20282
Love is never primarily defined in the Bible as a feeling. At its foundation love is at least a commitment and a promise. - @timkellernyc
Wilt thou love God as he thee ? then digest,
My soul, this wholesome meditation,
How God the Spirit, by angels waited on
In heaven, doth make His temple in thy breast.
The Father having begot a Son most blest,
And still begetting—for he ne'er begun—
Hath deign'd to choose thee by adoption,
Co-heir to His glory, and Sabbath' endless rest.
And as a robb'd man, which by search doth find
His stolen stuff sold, must lose or buy it again,
The Sun of glory came down, and was slain,
Us whom He had made, and Satan stole, to unbind.
'Twas much, that man was made like God before,
But, that God should be made like man, much more.
John Donne
Friday, 1 June 2018
Quotes 2 Jun
The only way back to the tree of life is to trust in the one who hung upon the tree of death.- Story of the Word: Meditations on the Narrative of Scripture (Wipf and Stock, 2017).(11)
Sin isn’t always easily identifiable. A heart devoted to idolatry isn’t always observable from the outside. Judas managed to spend years on the inside of the community of disciples without raising a suspicion precisely because wickedness can so easily wear the mask of righteousness. Corruption can adopt the public persona of virtue. Story of the Word: - Jonathan LeemanMeditations on the Narrative of Scripture (Wipf and Stock, 2017).(86)
Veritas Christo et ecclesiae - Truth, for Chrisr and the church.- Harvard 1692 motto - Vishal Mangalwadi, The book that made your World, Page 387
Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well to know God and Jesus Christ which is internal John 17 three and therefore to make Christ , the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ (John 17:3) and and therefore to lay Christ in the bottom, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and Learning, And seeing the Lord only giveth wisdom. Let everyone seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seek it him. (Pro 2:3)
Everyone shall so exercise himself in reading the scriptures twice a day, that he shall be ready to give such an account of his proficiency therein both in theoretical observations of language and logic and in practical spiritual truths, as his tutor shall require according to his ability; seeing the entrance of the word giveth light, it giveth
understanding to the simple. (ps 119 :130) - Harvard 1646 rules and precepts - quoted in Vishal Mangalwadi, The book that made your World, p387
A post-modernist would be absolutely right in insisting that the Declaration of Independence was wrong. These terms are not self evident Human equality is not self evident anywhere in the world - not even in America. Women and blacks were not treated as equal in America. Equality was never self evident To Hindu sages. To them in inequality was self evident. The question was why are human beings born unequal.- Vishal Mangalwadi, The book that made your World, Page 391
Sin isn’t always easily identifiable. A heart devoted to idolatry isn’t always observable from the outside. Judas managed to spend years on the inside of the community of disciples without raising a suspicion precisely because wickedness can so easily wear the mask of righteousness. Corruption can adopt the public persona of virtue. Story of the Word: - Jonathan LeemanMeditations on the Narrative of Scripture (Wipf and Stock, 2017).(86)
Veritas Christo et ecclesiae - Truth, for Chrisr and the church.- Harvard 1692 motto - Vishal Mangalwadi, The book that made your World, Page 387
Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well to know God and Jesus Christ which is internal John 17 three and therefore to make Christ , the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ (John 17:3) and and therefore to lay Christ in the bottom, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and Learning, And seeing the Lord only giveth wisdom. Let everyone seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seek it him. (Pro 2:3)
Everyone shall so exercise himself in reading the scriptures twice a day, that he shall be ready to give such an account of his proficiency therein both in theoretical observations of language and logic and in practical spiritual truths, as his tutor shall require according to his ability; seeing the entrance of the word giveth light, it giveth
understanding to the simple. (ps 119 :130) - Harvard 1646 rules and precepts - quoted in Vishal Mangalwadi, The book that made your World, p387
A post-modernist would be absolutely right in insisting that the Declaration of Independence was wrong. These terms are not self evident Human equality is not self evident anywhere in the world - not even in America. Women and blacks were not treated as equal in America. Equality was never self evident To Hindu sages. To them in inequality was self evident. The question was why are human beings born unequal.- Vishal Mangalwadi, The book that made your World, Page 391
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