Sunday, 9 June 2019
Quotes Jun 10
There is nothing more bitter and fearful than death, and yet to die 'in the Lord' (Rev. 14:13), is sweet and blessed to the children of God, for then they rest from their labours.- Samuel Rutherford@SR_SDG
The Wise Men were truly Wise Men. Unlike most men,
they stopped to ask for directions.
--George E. Franke
(In Cal and Rose Samra's
_More Holy Humor_ [1997])
"It is possible to tolerate a little elevation, when a man takes a drink or two too much after working hard and when he is feeling low. This must be called a frolic. But to sit day and night, pouring it in and pouring it out again, is piggish... all food is a matter of freedom, even a modest drink for one's pleasure. If you do not wish to conduct yourself this way, if you are going to go beyond this and be a born pig and guzzle beer and wine, then, if this cannot be stopped by the rulers, you must know that you cannot be saved. For God will not admit such piggish drinkers into the kingdom of heaven [cf. Gal. 5:19-21]... If you are tired and downhearted, take a drink; but this does not mean being a pig and doing nothing but gorging and swilling... You should be moderate and sober; this means that we should not be drunken, though we may be exhilarated."
— Martin Luther, Sermon on Soberness and Moderation (May 18, 1539)
Friday, 7 June 2019
Quote Jun 8
...the way God's sovereign will unfolds for us is through our knowledge of , and submission too, his revealed will.- Sinclair Ferguson, Maturity,88
A document alleged to have come into the possession of a Field Director of the American Security Council in the 1960s ...Revolution by Stealth listed the objectives of atheistic communism that could be achieved without any resort to arms. Some of these were as follow:
Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.
Eliminate all laws governing obscenity bu calling them 'censorship' and 'a violation of free speech and free press'.
Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
Gain control of key positions in radio, TV and motion pictures.
Present homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as 'normal, natural and healthy'. - Sinclair Ferguson, Maturity,p105
A prosperous condition is not always a safe one. A person is usually better in adversity than in prosperity. —THOMAS WATSON
A document alleged to have come into the possession of a Field Director of the American Security Council in the 1960s ...Revolution by Stealth listed the objectives of atheistic communism that could be achieved without any resort to arms. Some of these were as follow:
Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.
Eliminate all laws governing obscenity bu calling them 'censorship' and 'a violation of free speech and free press'.
Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
Gain control of key positions in radio, TV and motion pictures.
Present homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as 'normal, natural and healthy'. - Sinclair Ferguson, Maturity,p105
A prosperous condition is not always a safe one. A person is usually better in adversity than in prosperity. —THOMAS WATSON
Thursday, 6 June 2019
Quotes Jun 7th
God's centre is everywhere, his circumference nowhere.—Thomas Watson
You that are believers must never expect any pleasure in sin; for you can neither commit it without regret, nor reflect upon it without shame and confusion: expect no better consequents of sin than the woundings of conscience and the dismal cloudings of the face of God. - John Flavel
Lord, put me into thy service when and where thou pleasest. In thy hand all my qualities will be put to their appropriate end.- Robert M. McCheyne@McCheyneQuotes
What a deal of sorrow and after-complaining might
this small labour prevent! How many miles travel,
besides the vexation, may a traveller save by
inquiring of the way!
--Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
(In Isaac David Thomas' _The Golden Treasury Of
You that are believers must never expect any pleasure in sin; for you can neither commit it without regret, nor reflect upon it without shame and confusion: expect no better consequents of sin than the woundings of conscience and the dismal cloudings of the face of God. - John Flavel
Lord, put me into thy service when and where thou pleasest. In thy hand all my qualities will be put to their appropriate end.- Robert M. McCheyne@McCheyneQuotes
What a deal of sorrow and after-complaining might
this small labour prevent! How many miles travel,
besides the vexation, may a traveller save by
inquiring of the way!
--Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
(In Isaac David Thomas' _The Golden Treasury Of
Quotes Jun 6
It is axiomatic then that we cannot enjoy a high degree of assurance if we persist in living at a low level of obedience. - Sinclair Ferguson, Maturity,p73
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics. - Kepler cited in Morris Kline, Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty, - quoted in THE SOUL OF SCIENCE by PEARCEY & THAXTON, p.126
There is little ethical difference in principle between private counterfeiting and government money supply expansion, though there is some difference politically. - E Calvin Beisner, Prosperity and Poverty p. 135
As some to church repair,
Not for the doctrine, but the music there.
--Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
_An Essay On Criticism_ [1711]; Part II, Line 142
God has made thee to love Him, and not to understand Him.
--Voltaire (1694-1778)
_La Henriade_ [1723], "Canto VII"
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics. - Kepler cited in Morris Kline, Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty, - quoted in THE SOUL OF SCIENCE by PEARCEY & THAXTON, p.126
There is little ethical difference in principle between private counterfeiting and government money supply expansion, though there is some difference politically. - E Calvin Beisner, Prosperity and Poverty p. 135
As some to church repair,
Not for the doctrine, but the music there.
--Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
_An Essay On Criticism_ [1711]; Part II, Line 142
God has made thee to love Him, and not to understand Him.
--Voltaire (1694-1778)
_La Henriade_ [1723], "Canto VII"
Tuesday, 4 June 2019
Quotes Jun 5th
In the 'General Scholium" Newton writes: The most beautiful system of sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the council and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. - quoted in - THE SOUL OF SCIENCE by PEARCEY & THAXTON, p.91
Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving. His origin, his growth, his hopes and fears and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collations of jatos. - Bertrand Russell, A Free Man's Worship, - quoted in THE SOUL OF SCIENCE by PEARCEY & THAXTON, p.117
Everything we find difficult we describe as a 'problem'. But difficulties we need to overcome are nt necessarily problems we need to solve. - Sinclair Ferguson, Maturity,p.57
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. - E Calvin Beisner, Prosperity and Poverty p. 132
The ruling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still.
--Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
_Moral Essays_ [1731-1735], Epistle III
Monday, 3 June 2019
Quotes Jun 4th
If you want to influence people, tell the what they want to hear. - Theodore Dalrymple, The Knife Went In, P. 187
Scripture is medicine for our sick souls. The label says 'Take daily' not "Take when you feel like it!' If we do only the latter it is likely that we will never 'feel better'! - Sinclair Ferguson, Maturity,p.49
... the driving impulse of Newton's scientific work was , as we have seen, to defend Christian faith against what he saw as an encroaching mechanistic materialism. - quoted in - THE SOUL OF SCIENCE by PEARCEY & THAXTON, p.75
By 1930, only about 25% of the American population lived on farms, and only 10% was involved in agriculture. By 1982, only about 2.4% of the American population lived on farms, and only 1.6% was involved in agriculture. Yet those 3,773,000 people raises enough food to feed over 234 million Americans and still have huge surpluses to ship overseas and fill government warehouses. The average American farm worker today raises enough food to feed himself and over 61 others. - E Calvin Beisner, Prosperity and Poverty p.86
Scripture is medicine for our sick souls. The label says 'Take daily' not "Take when you feel like it!' If we do only the latter it is likely that we will never 'feel better'! - Sinclair Ferguson, Maturity,p.49
... the driving impulse of Newton's scientific work was , as we have seen, to defend Christian faith against what he saw as an encroaching mechanistic materialism. - quoted in - THE SOUL OF SCIENCE by PEARCEY & THAXTON, p.75
By 1930, only about 25% of the American population lived on farms, and only 10% was involved in agriculture. By 1982, only about 2.4% of the American population lived on farms, and only 1.6% was involved in agriculture. Yet those 3,773,000 people raises enough food to feed over 234 million Americans and still have huge surpluses to ship overseas and fill government warehouses. The average American farm worker today raises enough food to feed himself and over 61 others. - E Calvin Beisner, Prosperity and Poverty p.86
Quotes Jun 3rd
"We live in a continent where increasingly powers have gone to a group of people who are NOT elected, CANNOT be removed and DON'T have to listen to us!"- Tony Benn
When few lived long, old age was respected.But now that almost everyone seems to go on for ever and, thanks to a declining birthrate, youth is a rare commodity, it is the young who are looked up to and accorded the kind of reverence African tribes once accorded their elders.This is why so much attention is paid to that odious Swedish girl (Thunberg), who makes Mr Podsnap in Our Mutual Friend seem about as self-doubting as Hamlet, and whose face oozes sanctimony almost as a secretion.She needs to be sent to her room and told not to come down before breakfast....the cult of youth is, at heart, a very sad one. It implies that the peak of life is reached early and thence forward it is downhill all the way.-- Theodore Dalrymple https://theodoredalrymple.wordpress.com
As John Owen notes somewhere, we need to be aware that spiritual growth is not measured so much by height as it is by the obstacles that an individual has overcome in the process if reaching that height. - Sinclair Ferguson, Maturity, p22
And in 'Opticks' he (Newton) writes that the business of science is to ' deduce causes for effects, till we come to the very first cause, which is certainly not mechanical.' - - THE SOUL OF SCIENCE by PEARCEY & THAXTON,
When few lived long, old age was respected.But now that almost everyone seems to go on for ever and, thanks to a declining birthrate, youth is a rare commodity, it is the young who are looked up to and accorded the kind of reverence African tribes once accorded their elders.This is why so much attention is paid to that odious Swedish girl (Thunberg), who makes Mr Podsnap in Our Mutual Friend seem about as self-doubting as Hamlet, and whose face oozes sanctimony almost as a secretion.She needs to be sent to her room and told not to come down before breakfast....the cult of youth is, at heart, a very sad one. It implies that the peak of life is reached early and thence forward it is downhill all the way.-- Theodore Dalrymple https://theodoredalrymple.wordpress.com
As John Owen notes somewhere, we need to be aware that spiritual growth is not measured so much by height as it is by the obstacles that an individual has overcome in the process if reaching that height. - Sinclair Ferguson, Maturity, p22
And in 'Opticks' he (Newton) writes that the business of science is to ' deduce causes for effects, till we come to the very first cause, which is certainly not mechanical.' - - THE SOUL OF SCIENCE by PEARCEY & THAXTON,
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