Quotes Mar 9

‘Governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.’- UN experts on climate change in 1989
UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.

I always thought LENT was what you found in your belly button?- Unk
Don’t be silly. It’s what I’ve done with books I rarely see again. - Digby L. James

The Bible never speaks about white, black or coloured skin (the closest is the Beloved in the Song of Songs who is "dark"). Interestingly, when it mentions Ethiopians it calls them "smooth skinned" (Isaiah 18:7). Their smoothness is far more remarkable than their pigmentation.- Glen Scrivener @glenscrivener

Quotes Mar 8

We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.- John Calvin@JohnCalvinDaily

“This morning when I arose, I found my heart go after God in longing desires of conformity to him, and in secret prayer found myself sweetly quickened and drawn out in praises to God for all he had done to and for me, and for my inward trials and distresses of late.  My heart ascribed glory, glory, glory to the blessed God and bid welcome to all inward distress again, if God saw meet to exercise me with it.  Time appeared but an inch long, and eternity at hand; and I thought I could in patience and cheerfulness bear anything for the cause of God, for I saw that a moment would bring me to a world of peace and blessedness.  My soul by the strength of the Lord, rose far above this lower world, and all the vain amusements and frightful disappointments of it.”- David Brainerd, Diary, March 7, 1743

Sympathy is a debt we owe to sufferers. —William Secker

“Christ is concerned not merely to undo the damage done by Adam and restore the original, but to do something incomparably more wonderful. It is really a new order which he inaugurates, in which man attains a destiny not hitherto possible for him. The prodigal son is immeasurably better off on his return to his father’s house than he was before he left home.”- James Philip's 'The Power of God on Romans 5 v 12 to 21:

When someone inserts the adjective “social” before the noun “justice” it’s a sign they are talking about something else entirely.- David Haslam

Quotes 7 Mar

Billy Bray and a friend were is coming to the house of a wealthy man. Billy was making for the front door, and his friend said it would be better and his friend said it would be better if they went round the back. 'No' send Billy, I am the son of a King and I shall go frontways.' - Chris Wright, Billy Bray in his own words Page 10 S

Our doctrine and biblical knowledge cannot leave the affections behind. If we believe with our minds that God is holy we must also come to find his holiness enjoyable and satisfying just to praise it. If we believe the great God of the universe really loves us, it should make us emotionally unshakable in the face of criticism, suffering and death. In short we must be able to existentially access r.final convictions. If.our doctrinal soundness is not accompanied by heart experience, it will lead eventually to to nominal Christianity -  that is in name only and eventually to unbelief.-Timothy Keller, Prayer, Page 180

National churches work foreign to the nature and Constitution of the Christian church. - Patrick Hutchison of the Relief church quoted  by Andrew L Drummond and James Bulloch, The Scottish church 1688 to 1843 Page 150

Quotes 6 Mar

“You have need to abhor it as deadly Poison, and to renounce it from this very Hour.” - John Wesley “Letter to a Friend, Concerning Tea,” Aug 1749

Though John Wesley totally opposed the drinking tea hence the term teetotaller he was something of an authority on the taste of ale. - Arnold Dallimore, Spurgeon Page 182

There is a twofold hedge that god makes about his people: there is the hedge of protection, to keep evil from them; and the hedge of affliction, to keep them from evil.
—John Bunyan

Quotes 5 Mar

"The last day will discover I have nothing but a heart to lead you in the ways of God and into the enjoyment of God"- John Owen,, Sermons, vol 9

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one. —Luther

The lowest and worst have a claim to our courtesy. --John Wesley (1703-1791 _On Pleasing All Men_ (sermon)

When he was hiding in the desert, God sent ravens to bring Elijah meat & bread.
When multitudes were hungry, Jesus fed them fish & bread.
God doesn’t seem to have a very high view of vegetables.- Joshua D Jones

We should teach children to conjugate before we teach them to copulate. - Jules Gomes

Quotes 4 Mar

"Faith will give us such an experience of the power, efficacy, sweetness and benefit of gospel ordinances and gospel worship, as shall cause us to despise all that the world can do in opposition unto us." - John Owen,, Sermons, vol 9

The life of an honest man is an oath.—Richard Sibbes

Gospel proclamation is a Christian’s task but gospel transformation is the evidence it’s true in a Christian’s  life. - Gavin Peacock@GPeacock8

"During this last year I had come to believe that it was not possible for a man to love his wife more than I loved you... I pity those lovers who are not married." - In 1939, Martyn Lloyd-Jones wrote to his wife Bethan

Secularists have not succeeded in wrecking divine things; but Secularists have succeeded in wrecking secular things...For the enemies of religion cannot leave it alone. They laboriously attempt to smash religion. They cannot smash religion; but they do smash everything else.- G. K. Chesterton@GKCdaily

Quotes 2 Mar

Our life meant his death, his death means our life. - Mark Jones, Knowing Christ Page 105

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million of enemies. Yet the distance makes no difference; he is praying for me. -Robert Murray M'Cheyne in Andrew Bonar  Murray M'Cheyne  Page 236

That preacher that have good gift for preaching and no grace is like one that have knives, for And spoons and plates and know meat. But knives and forks and plates and meet is best and gifts is great blessing. When preachers have  grace then you need not to say anything about gifts.- Billy Bray in Chris Wright, Billy Bray in his  own words Page 136