God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. --Izaak Walton (1593-1683)
That which is everybody's business is nobody's business. Izaak Walton (1593-1683)
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy. --Izaak Walton (1593-1683) _The Compleat Angler_ [1653-1655], Chapter 21
We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, 'Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.' Izaak Walton (1593-1683)
Tuesday, 8 January 2019
IM Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully and Pete Fleming 8 Jan 1956
The man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all... Jim Elliot (1927-1956)
Rest in this-it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call, or whatever you want to call it. It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond, or what have you... The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will be the ultimate Word from God.- Jim Elliot
\Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on Earth! I care not if I never raise my voice again for Him, if only I may love Him, please Him. Mayhap in mercy He shall give me a host of children that I may lead them through the vast star fields to explore His delicacies whose finger ends set them to burning. But if not, if only I may see Him, touch His garments, smile into His eyes -- ah then, not stars nor children shall matter, only Himself. Jim Elliot (1927-1956)
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.-- Jim Elliot
Unwillingness to accept God's "way of escape" from temptation frightens me what a rebel yet resides within. --Jim Elliot
Rest in this-it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call, or whatever you want to call it. It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond, or what have you... The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will be the ultimate Word from God.- Jim Elliot
\Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on Earth! I care not if I never raise my voice again for Him, if only I may love Him, please Him. Mayhap in mercy He shall give me a host of children that I may lead them through the vast star fields to explore His delicacies whose finger ends set them to burning. But if not, if only I may see Him, touch His garments, smile into His eyes -- ah then, not stars nor children shall matter, only Himself. Jim Elliot (1927-1956)
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.-- Jim Elliot
Unwillingness to accept God's "way of escape" from temptation frightens me what a rebel yet resides within. --Jim Elliot
Sunday, 6 January 2019
On this day 7 Jan 1618 Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.-- Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. -Francis Bacon
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est. Knowledge is power. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Meditationes Sacrae, De Haeresibus
The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.-Francis Bacon_New Organon_I, Aphorism 42
This delivering of knowledge in distinct and disjointed aphorisms doth leave the wit of man more free to turn and toss, and to make use of that which is so delivered to more several purposes and applications. -- Francis Bacon, _Novum Organum_, 1620
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order. Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. Of Discourse.
Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest. Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. Of Empire.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. -Francis Bacon
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est. Knowledge is power. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Meditationes Sacrae, De Haeresibus
The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.-Francis Bacon_New Organon_I, Aphorism 42
This delivering of knowledge in distinct and disjointed aphorisms doth leave the wit of man more free to turn and toss, and to make use of that which is so delivered to more several purposes and applications. -- Francis Bacon, _Novum Organum_, 1620
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order. Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. Of Discourse.
Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest. Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. Of Empire.
Friday, 4 January 2019
Quotes 5 Jan IM Calvin Coolidge 1933
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.-- Calvin Coolidge
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country. --Calvin Coolidge, quoted by Cal Thomas, "Silent Cal Speaks: Why Calvin Coolidge is the Model for Conservative Leadership Today" http://www.heritage.org/Research/PoliticalPhilosophy/HL576.cfm
When Calvin Coolidge was vice president, Channing Cox, who had succeeded Coolidge as Governor of Massachusetts, came to Washington and stopped in to see him. Cox was impressed by the fact that Coolidge was able to see long lists of callers every day, yet finished his work by five o'clock. Cox pointed out that he often found himself tied up with visitors until nine in the evening. "What makes the difference?" he asked.
"You talk back," Silent Cal explained. - Bits & Pieces, October 14,1993
Men do not make laws. They do but discover them. Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness. You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.--Calvin Coolidge, _Have Faith in Massachusetts_ p.4
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country. --Calvin Coolidge, quoted by Cal Thomas, "Silent Cal Speaks: Why Calvin Coolidge is the Model for Conservative Leadership Today" http://www.heritage.org/Research/PoliticalPhilosophy/HL576.cfm
When Calvin Coolidge was vice president, Channing Cox, who had succeeded Coolidge as Governor of Massachusetts, came to Washington and stopped in to see him. Cox was impressed by the fact that Coolidge was able to see long lists of callers every day, yet finished his work by five o'clock. Cox pointed out that he often found himself tied up with visitors until nine in the evening. "What makes the difference?" he asked.
"You talk back," Silent Cal explained. - Bits & Pieces, October 14,1993
Men do not make laws. They do but discover them. Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness. You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.--Calvin Coolidge, _Have Faith in Massachusetts_ p.4
Thursday, 3 January 2019
Quotes 4 Jan
You will not lay one stone upon Zion's wall, but the world and Satan will labor to cast it down again.- Samuel Rutherford
The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains, proves that he has no brains of his own...You need to read."- Spurgeon, (Sermon No. 542, Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Volume 9).
Our situation is hopeless, and we are helpless - but God has intervened.- #SinclairBFerguson
Faith never rests so calmly and peacefully as when it lays its head on the pillow of God's omnipotence.' - J.C. Ryle @JCRyle
The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains, proves that he has no brains of his own...You need to read."- Spurgeon, (Sermon No. 542, Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Volume 9).
Our situation is hopeless, and we are helpless - but God has intervened.- #SinclairBFerguson
Faith never rests so calmly and peacefully as when it lays its head on the pillow of God's omnipotence.' - J.C. Ryle @JCRyle
Wednesday, 2 January 2019
HB Marcus Tullius Cicero 3 Jan 106 BC
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. -Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)"De Divinatione," bk. 2, sct. 58.
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.--Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. --Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
While there's life, there's hope.--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), _Ad Atticum
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What is more agreeable than one's home?--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), _Ad Familiares_
The mind of each man is the man himself. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. - Cicero.
The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of being some day a commander. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
No Sane man will dance. - Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what you can do for your country. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, 63 B.C.
Without the hope of immortality no one would ever face death for his country. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) _Tusculanae Disputationes_
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.--Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. --Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
While there's life, there's hope.--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), _Ad Atticum
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What is more agreeable than one's home?--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), _Ad Familiares_
The mind of each man is the man himself. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. - Cicero.
The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of being some day a commander. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
No Sane man will dance. - Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what you can do for your country. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, 63 B.C.
Without the hope of immortality no one would ever face death for his country. --Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) _Tusculanae Disputationes_
Tuesday, 1 January 2019
Quotes 2 Jan
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.- Margaret Thatcher@MrsMThatcher
A thorough and clear sight of Jesus my Lord, will make me happy forevermore.Samuel Rutherford
The General ... repeated nearly the whole of Gray's Elegy .... adding, as he concluded, that he would prefer being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French tomorrow - Written of James Wolfe (1727-59) who died capturing Quebec.
A thorough and clear sight of Jesus my Lord, will make me happy forevermore.Samuel Rutherford
The General ... repeated nearly the whole of Gray's Elegy .... adding, as he concluded, that he would prefer being the author of that poem to the glory of beating the French tomorrow - Written of James Wolfe (1727-59) who died capturing Quebec.
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