"Cranmer was constantly aware that the purpose of studying the Bible was not for men to gain a reputation for learning and become masters of theology, but for God to master them." -- Horton Davies, WORSHIP AND THEOLOGY IN ENGLAND
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself…the height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. …And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish command over himself will have no command over others. --attributed to Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
We are more sure to arise out of our graves than out of our beds. Thomas Watson
The resurrection of Jesus doesn't just change how we look at the world around us - it changes the reality of the world around us. - Justin Welby
To see him as he is, and to be like him! This is worth dying for, and worth living for. –John Newton
Sunday, 30 April 2017
Friday, 28 April 2017
Quotes 29 Apr 17
The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible. - United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2001 Assessment Report
https://pjmedia.com/blog/senate-dems-get-irrational-during-web-of-denial-climate-change-event/
When is your life more fragrant than when the kiss of forgiveness is most fresh upon your cheek? - Al Martin
"Marriage is like a school-house, where you shall have occasion of patience, and occasion of love. Now except Christ be in this school-house of marriage, you cannot be patient in trouble; neither can you truly love; neither can you do any thing acceptable unto him.”- Hugh Latimer:
All theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious.- John Calvin @JohnCalvinDaily
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.--Thomas Jefferson, Notes On The State of Virginia
https://pjmedia.com/blog/senate-dems-get-irrational-during-web-of-denial-climate-change-event/
When is your life more fragrant than when the kiss of forgiveness is most fresh upon your cheek? - Al Martin
"Marriage is like a school-house, where you shall have occasion of patience, and occasion of love. Now except Christ be in this school-house of marriage, you cannot be patient in trouble; neither can you truly love; neither can you do any thing acceptable unto him.”- Hugh Latimer:
All theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious.- John Calvin @JohnCalvinDaily
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.--Thomas Jefferson, Notes On The State of Virginia
Thursday, 27 April 2017
Quotes for 28 Apr 17
“The collection of any taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them. The only constitutional tax is the tax which ministers to public necessity. The property of the country belongs to the people of the country. Their title is absolute. They do not support any privileged class; they do not need to maintain great military forces; they ought not to be burdened with a great array of public employees.” -Calvin Coolidge, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1925, The Mind of the President p. 108-109; Messages and Papers of the Presidents p. 9486 https://coolidgefoundation.org/quote/quotations-t/
“A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude. One of the first signs of the breaking down of a free government is a disregard by the taxing power of the right of the people to their own property. It makes little difference whether such a condition is brought about through will of a dictator, through the power of a military force, or through the pressure of an organized minority. The result is the same. Unless thepeople can enjoy that reasonable security in the possession of their property, which is guaranteed in the Constitution, against unreasonable taxation, freedom is at an end. The common man is restrained and hampered in his ability to secure food and clothing and shelter. His wages are decreased, his hours are lengthened. Against the recurring tendency in this direction there must be interposed the constant effort of an informed electorate and of patriotic public servants. The importance of a constant reiteration of these principles cannot be overestimated.” -Calvin Coolidge, At Memorial Continental Hall, June 30, 1924; The Mind of the President p. 113, Foundations of the Republic p. 40-41
https://coolidgefoundation.org/quote/quotations-t/
Wednesday, 26 April 2017
Quotes for 27 Apr 17
In all creatures, indeed, both high and low, the glory of God shines, but nowhere has it shone more brightly than in the cross. -John Calvin @JohnCalvinDaily
Cricket has many of the right ingredients for a religion. It has men
wearing hats, arcane rules, and bizarre names, which only a select few
are able to understand. It has someone called a twelfth man, a council
that decides doctrine, and a shrine at a place called Lords. It even
has its own sacred text: Wisden. Unofficially described as 'The Bible
of Cricket,' it weighs a much as a Bible and contains just as many
unpronounceable names. And can it be mere coincidence that the great
plinth at Stonehenge is exactly 22 yards away from the dolmen whose
shape is reminiscent of a set of stumps and bails? Like religion,
cricket can also be hard to appreciate, tedious and require only our
nominal attention. It was Lord Mancroft who wrote that it was a game
which The English, not being spiritual people, had invented in order
to give themselves some conception of eternity.
==>Rhidian Brook, BBC, Thought for the Day, 8 September 2005
correction - Cricket has no rules. It has laws.- GJW
"We had one UK scientist, Philip Stott, who has said there are quite literally hundreds of factors governing global climate. For the UN to pick one politically-selected factor -- CO2 -- and then try to tweak it at the margins and then come up with some temperature goal 50-100 years in the future, is akin to scientific nonsense. You could call it modern day witchcraft." -Marc Morano, quoted
http://www.climatedepot.com/2015/12/01/watch-morano-on-fox-news-w-cavuto-climate-huslte-is-going-to-turn-the-tables-on-the-entire-global-warming-movement/
Cricket has many of the right ingredients for a religion. It has men
wearing hats, arcane rules, and bizarre names, which only a select few
are able to understand. It has someone called a twelfth man, a council
that decides doctrine, and a shrine at a place called Lords. It even
has its own sacred text: Wisden. Unofficially described as 'The Bible
of Cricket,' it weighs a much as a Bible and contains just as many
unpronounceable names. And can it be mere coincidence that the great
plinth at Stonehenge is exactly 22 yards away from the dolmen whose
shape is reminiscent of a set of stumps and bails? Like religion,
cricket can also be hard to appreciate, tedious and require only our
nominal attention. It was Lord Mancroft who wrote that it was a game
which The English, not being spiritual people, had invented in order
to give themselves some conception of eternity.
==>Rhidian Brook, BBC, Thought for the Day, 8 September 2005
correction - Cricket has no rules. It has laws.- GJW
"We had one UK scientist, Philip Stott, who has said there are quite literally hundreds of factors governing global climate. For the UN to pick one politically-selected factor -- CO2 -- and then try to tweak it at the margins and then come up with some temperature goal 50-100 years in the future, is akin to scientific nonsense. You could call it modern day witchcraft." -Marc Morano, quoted
http://www.climatedepot.com/2015/12/01/watch-morano-on-fox-news-w-cavuto-climate-huslte-is-going-to-turn-the-tables-on-the-entire-global-warming-movement/
Tuesday, 25 April 2017
Quotes 26 Apr 17
Our religion will be unprofitable if it does not change our heart, pervade our manners, and transform us into new creatures.- John Calvin @JohnCalvinDaily
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. –Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Socialism does not rid a society of greed, it gives the government and its officials a monopoly on greed. And since all power has been concentrated into the hands of the government, it is omnipotent greed. -a New Yorker
http://philosophicalconservatism.com/post/159466452941/socialism-does-not-rid-a-society-of-greed-it
Men become susceptible to ideas not by discussion and argument, but by seeing them personified and loving the person who so embodies them. -Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) U.S. historian, The Conduct of Life, 4.3 (1951)
“It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father’s will—and it was his love for sinners like me.”― D.A. Carson
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. –Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Socialism does not rid a society of greed, it gives the government and its officials a monopoly on greed. And since all power has been concentrated into the hands of the government, it is omnipotent greed. -a New Yorker
http://philosophicalconservatism.com/post/159466452941/socialism-does-not-rid-a-society-of-greed-it
Men become susceptible to ideas not by discussion and argument, but by seeing them personified and loving the person who so embodies them. -Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) U.S. historian, The Conduct of Life, 4.3 (1951)
“It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father’s will—and it was his love for sinners like me.”― D.A. Carson
Quotes 25 Apr 17
The world hates the family. The state is the family’s enemy. The state grows by the family’s failure and the state has an interest in persuading people that the family can do nothing on its own. It hates fatherhood, and makes little pretense otherwise. It hates motherhood, though it makes a show of championing the unwed mother as well as the mother, who, as the ugly phrase puts it, “has it all,” though a moment’s reflection should suffice to show that no one can give his or her career to a career and a family and the local community. - Anthony Esolen, Out of the Ashes, 2017
“ We in the modern West are living under barbarism, though we do not recognise it. Our scientists, our judges, or princes, our scholars, and our scribes – they are at work demolishing the faith, the family, gender, even what it means to be human. Our barbarians have exchanged the animal pelts and spears of the past for designer suits and smart phones.”- Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option. p.17.
“Freud’s answer was to replace religion with psychology. In his therapeutic vision, we should stop the fruitless searching for a non-existent source of meaning and instead seek self-fulfillment. The pursuit of happiness was not a quest for unity with God, or sacrificial dedication to a cause greater than oneself rather a search to satisfy the Self” - Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option.p.41
“ For a Christian, there is only one right way to use the gift of sex: within marriage between one man and one woman. This is heresy to the modern world, and a hard saying upon which hearts, friendships, families, and even churches have been broken. There is no core teaching of the Christian faith that is less popular today, and perhaps none more important to obey.”- Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option P.196
We need digitally fast as an ascetic practice, take smartphones away from kids, keep social media out of worship, do things with our hands and question ‘Progress’. David Robertson reviewing -od Dreher, The Benedict Option in The Wee Flea
“ We in the modern West are living under barbarism, though we do not recognise it. Our scientists, our judges, or princes, our scholars, and our scribes – they are at work demolishing the faith, the family, gender, even what it means to be human. Our barbarians have exchanged the animal pelts and spears of the past for designer suits and smart phones.”- Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option. p.17.
“Freud’s answer was to replace religion with psychology. In his therapeutic vision, we should stop the fruitless searching for a non-existent source of meaning and instead seek self-fulfillment. The pursuit of happiness was not a quest for unity with God, or sacrificial dedication to a cause greater than oneself rather a search to satisfy the Self” - Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option.p.41
“ For a Christian, there is only one right way to use the gift of sex: within marriage between one man and one woman. This is heresy to the modern world, and a hard saying upon which hearts, friendships, families, and even churches have been broken. There is no core teaching of the Christian faith that is less popular today, and perhaps none more important to obey.”- Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option P.196
We need digitally fast as an ascetic practice, take smartphones away from kids, keep social media out of worship, do things with our hands and question ‘Progress’. David Robertson reviewing -od Dreher, The Benedict Option in The Wee Flea
Monday, 24 April 2017
Quotes 24 Apr
Throughout most of our nation's history, immigrants
adopted the language, laws, and common customs of the
host country. The term "melting pot" was a descriptive
metaphor, indicating that the potentially divisive attitudes
and customs of the old country would be left behind as
the newcomers blended into a new commonality of purpose.
But today it seems that the pot is no longer melting.
Some incoming groups defy cultural assimilation. They
cluster into enclaves and demand special concessions
for their ethnic customs, beliefs, languages, and, in
some cases, even their laws.
According to former House Intelligence Committee
chairman Rep. Pete Hoekstra, assimilation is an
essential component to immigration:
"What we need to do is make sure everyone coming
into the United States understands who we are
and that we are founded on Judeo-Christian
values, that there is one rule of law and that's
what's on the books and it's not Sharia and we
need to make sure we don't engage in the same
kind of mistakes in Europe where they did not
engage in assimilation." -David Jeremiah (1941- )
_Is This The End?_ [2016], "The Bleeding Of Our Borders"
Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
-George Washington, Farewell Address 1796
adopted the language, laws, and common customs of the
host country. The term "melting pot" was a descriptive
metaphor, indicating that the potentially divisive attitudes
and customs of the old country would be left behind as
the newcomers blended into a new commonality of purpose.
But today it seems that the pot is no longer melting.
Some incoming groups defy cultural assimilation. They
cluster into enclaves and demand special concessions
for their ethnic customs, beliefs, languages, and, in
some cases, even their laws.
According to former House Intelligence Committee
chairman Rep. Pete Hoekstra, assimilation is an
essential component to immigration:
"What we need to do is make sure everyone coming
into the United States understands who we are
and that we are founded on Judeo-Christian
values, that there is one rule of law and that's
what's on the books and it's not Sharia and we
need to make sure we don't engage in the same
kind of mistakes in Europe where they did not
engage in assimilation." -David Jeremiah (1941- )
_Is This The End?_ [2016], "The Bleeding Of Our Borders"
Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
-George Washington, Farewell Address 1796
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