It is still the first book which fits the child’s mind when he begins to learn religion, and the last to which the old man clings as he leaves the world.-J. C. Ryle the Bible,

I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particular ly bungling in
politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and
millions of people." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So if we are going to fight with an eye towards winning, we've got to have a postmillennial faith. Now you can go to heaven without it, but you'll do better in this world and in the world to come, if you stand in terms of the fact that we are to bring everything into captivity to Christ." ~ R. J. Rushdoony

"You don't like the Goths?"
"No! Not with the persecution we have to put up with!"
"Persecution?" Padway raised his eyebrows.
"Religious persecution. We won't stand for it forever."
"But I thought the Goths let everybody worship as they pleased."
"That's just it! We Orthodox are forced to stand around and watch
Arians and Monophysites and Nestorians and Jews going about their
business unmolested, as if they owned the country! If that isn't
persecution, I'd like to know what is!" - L. Sprague DeCamp (_Lest Darkness Fall_)

Someone should set up Cyberholics Anonymous: "My name is John. I'm 45
years old, sleep with an iPhone next to my bed and check emails upon
waking. I have sore thumbs from texting, and waste half the day
replying to useless emails. I've forgotten how to listen and have a
real conversation. I am now a manager of emails - not people." = Tony Featherstone, The lost art of listening, WA Today, 20 September 201

The meaning of the atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross he took our place and bore our sin.- J R W Stott, The Cross of Christ

A bishop once complained to the king that the countess (Lady Huntingdon) and her ministers were making a stir in his diocese. “His Majesty offered a solution— ‘Make bishops of them—make bishops of them.’ The prelate replied: ‘That might be done, but please your Majesty, we cannot make a bishop of Lady Huntingdon.’ At that point the Queen interposed, ‘It would be a lucky circumstance if you could, for she puts you all to shame.’ - Gilbert W. Kirby, The Elect Lady (Northants, England: The Trustees of the Connexion, 1972),

Postmillenialism- The Eschatology of Hope.- Clayton B. Callaway 2

It is true, that you live in the midst of difficulties and snares, and you need a double guard of watchfulness and prayer. But since you know both your need of help and where to look for it, I may say to you, as Darius to Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually is able to preserve and deliver you. Daniel likewise was a public man, and in critical circumstances. But he trusted in the Lord, was faithful in his departments, and therefore though he had enemies, they could not prevail against him.
Indeed the great point for our comfort in life, is to have a well grounded persuasion that we are where, all things considered, we ought to be. Then it is no great matter whether we are in public or in private life, in a city or a village, in a palace or a cottage. The promise, My grace is sufficient for thee, is necessary to support us in the smoothest scenes, and is equally able to support us in the most difficult. -John Newton, 21 July 1796, letter to Wliberforce

I am thermosceptic.
You are a climate cynic.
He is a luddite denialist.

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I always said I never wanted to write about love,
but then I went and did that anyway.
Amy Winehouse (1983-2011)

He had to go and join *that* stupid club! - Courtney Love, on Kurt Cobain dying at age 27, same as Amy Winehouse

In expository preaching the biblical text is neither a conventional introduction to a sermon on a largely different theme, nor a convenient peg on which to hang a ragbag of miscellaneous thoughts, but a master which dictates and controls what is said.” ~ John Stott

The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the
manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of the fallen world, at
my particular point of history. This is why I am not a pacifist.
Pacifism in this poor world in which we live -- this lost world --
means that we desert the people who need our greatest help.- Francis Schaeffer, 1984

I must hate Islam and love Muslims, hate unbelief and love agnostics, hate homosexuality and love gays. - ipse dixit

Break the Conventions . . . Keep the Commandments. - G.K. Chesterton.

I always thought of myself as a pretty good wit,but my wife says I'm only half-right.- William D. Blake

Good conduct arises out of good doctrine. ~ John Stott

The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride. ~ John Stott

Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.~ John Stott

"Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, ‘Leonard, you took Me too seriously’?" -Leonard Ravenhill

"If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified." -Leonard Ravenhill

"And the most encouraging work within the American Church at this moment in history is the great revival of biblical fatherhood, virtuous womanhood, blessed family life, and patriarchal multi-generational vision, most beautifully found within the home school movement of America." Doug Phillips

"At the heart of the notion of chivalry is the biblical doctrine of male sacrifice. This doctrine was embodied in the life of Jesus Christ who gave His life for His "Bride," the Church." ~Doug Phillips

"Whatever person is loved ultimately for themselves, and not for a higher end, even for God, His service, His honor, His relation to them, or His excellency appearing in them, is sinfully loved. For a person is made our god when they are loved ultimately for themselves." ~Richard Baxter

"Feminism is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands." -- G.K. Chesterton

Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy. ~John Calvin

To control the future requires the control of education and of the child. Hence, for Christians to tolerate statist education, or to allow their children to be trained thereby, means to renounce power in society, to renounce their children, and to deny Christ's Lordship over all of life. ~ R.J. Rushdoony

The Great Commission is not an option to be considered, but a command to be obeyed. -Hudson Taylor, Missionary to China.

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on earth. -John Wesley

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
Phillips Brooks

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
Phillips Brooks

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
Phillips Brooks

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks - "Going up to Jerusalem", Sermons (1886)