Quotes Jul 8

... welfare dependency is unjust to those who pay for it, and disastrous for those who wind up trapped in it. - - Theodore Dalrymple, Anything Goes, p.22

"The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit ... The great sin ... the dictatorship of pride ... Pride always means enmity."-  CS Lewis

God permits some to suffer most, that they might
experience the deepest joy.
     --William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)
      _Thoughts Of A Christian Optimist_ [1968]

The mind is like the stomach.  It is not how much you
put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
     --Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945)

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.- G K Chesterton

Quotes Jul 6

Dissatisfaction is the permanent state of being, at least of civilised mankind. - Theodore Dalrymple, Anything Goes, p.228

If you look at the world, you'll be distressed.
If you look within, you'll be depressed.
But if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest!
     --Corrie Ten Boom (1892-1983)
      (In Rick Warren's
      _The Purpose Driven Life_ [2002], Chapter 25)

The contempt which the liberal left in Britain holds for the likes of Urban and Trump, is because with men are offering a challenge to an international liberal elite that sincerely believes in the rightness of its cause and the inevitability of its triumph. - Robin Aitken, The Noble Liar, p,244

Quotes Jul 5

It is in the nature of plebiscitary regimes that a plebiscites are held until the population gets the answer right according to the leader or to the right thinking elite, whereafter there is no further plebiscire, at least on that subject. - - Theodore Dalrymple, Anything Goes, p.110

The first thing to do with theology is to turn it into praise. J Packer

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Satan wastes no ammunition on those who are dead 

in trespasses and sins. 

     --Corrie Ten Boom (1892-1983) 

Quotes Jul 4

The two poles of contemporary British child rearing are neglect and overindulgence. -  - Theodore Dalrymple, Anything Goes, p.220

What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils, for it is folly, vice and madness, without tuition or restraint. - Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

Christian democracy protects us form migration, defends the borders, supports the traditional family model of one man one woman, considers the protection of our Christian cultures a natural thing. - Viktor Orban, Prime minister of Hungary quoted in Robin Aitken, The Noble Liar, p,243

Quotes 3 July

Let me endeavour to lead you out of yourself: let me invite you to look unto Jesus.- John Newton@john__newton

The fact that so many successful politicians are
such shameless liars is not only a reflection on
them, it is also a reflection on us.
When the people want the impossible, only liars
can satisfy. --Thomas Sowell (1930-    ) _Townhall.com_ [May 22, 2012],
"Big Lies In Politic
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And can there be worse sickness, than to know
That we are never well, nor can be so?
John Donne, The First Anniversary

It isn't information people need, it's something to live for. - - Theodore Dalrymple, Second Opinion

Roman Empire: “You Christians are too exclusive. You threaten the social order because you won’t honour all deities.”
Modern West: “You Christians are too exclusive. You threaten the social order because you won’t honour all identities.”—@TimKellerNYC

Quotes 2 July

 It’s not how immigrants feel that matters, but how they behave. No one has any idea how British the Polish, Brazilian, Chinese, Vietnamese, and other immigrants (of whom there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions in total) feel, but nobody cares, because none of them is intent upon the destruction of British institutions. This is not true of some unknown and probably unknowable—but possibly not negligible—proportion of Muslims, no matter which part of the Islamic world they come from. - Theodore Dalrymple,  https://theodoredalrymple.wordpress.com/2015/07/31/islamic-terrorism-in-the-west-dalrymple-qa/

European history shows that, first, there's nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, desire to achieve utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before - the outcome was far from happy.- Margaret Thatcher@MrsMThatcher

"Be of good comfort, brother, for we shall have a merry supper with the Lord tonight!"- John Bradford was burned to death with John Leaf at Smithfield, London.1 July 1555

Let me endeavour to lead you out of yourself: let me invite you to look unto Jesus.- John Newton@john__newton

The fact that so many successful politicians are
such shameless liars is not only a reflection on
them, it is also a reflection on us.
When the people want the impossible, only liars
can satisfy. --Thomas Sowell (1930-    ) _Townhall.com_ [May 22, 2012],
"Big Lies In Politics"

Quotes 1 July

“It is with a strange feeling that those of us who came from the Soviet Union look upon the West of today...[W]e contemplate the West from what will be your future, or look back seventy years, to see our past suddenly repeating itself. And what we see is always the same: adults deferring to the opinion of children; the younger generation carried away by shallow worthless ideas; professors scared of being unfashionable; journalists refusing to take responsibility for the words they squander so profusely; universal sympathy for revolutionary extremists; people with serious objections unable or unwilling to voice them; the majority passively obsessed by a feeling of doomed; feeble governments; societies whose defensive reactions have become paralysed; spiritual confusion leading to political upheaval. What will happen as a result of all this lies ahead of us. But the time is near, and from bitter memory we can easily predict what these events will be.” -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ‘Warning to the West’ (Macmillan, 1986), 129-130.

When religious tears (as in New England) are applied to public office, the site is deprived of a wealth of gifts in the unconverted world. -  - Mostyn Roberts, The Subversive Puritan, Roger Williams and Freedom of Conscience, p. 205

The language of protest, pronouncement and proclamation has almost completely replaced the language of persuasion. - Os Guinness, The Case for Civility, p. 137