"In Adam and Eve, we begin naked. In God's city we appear clothed as a bride (Rev. 21:2)."
- Paul Marshall. Modern Technology: idol or divine gift? Evangelical Review of Theology 10 (1986) 261.
“Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. And yet, I thought something quite remote from anything the builders intended has come out of their work; something none of us thought about at the time...” Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh (1943)
While everyone may have a census divinitatis, Calvin observed that we all refashion that sense of deity to our own interests and desires unless through the Spirit and the Scripture our view of God is corrected and clarified. - Timothy Keller, - Prayer, Experiencing awe and intimacy with God, p. 45 quoted in p.24 Knowing God and knowing Ourselves, David b Colhoun
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might with judgment; for he who fawns for smiles, or trembles at frowns, will never lead a noble life for long. -C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) _Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 35 [1889]
The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.- Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic, 1957. Quoted in 100 good reasons to be a Republican, "New Statesman", August 2000.
Monday, 31 July 2017
Friday, 28 July 2017
Quotes 29 Jul 17
Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. - Calvin’s Institutes, 1.1.1 quoted in p.21 Knowing God and knowing Ourselves, David b Colhoun
That which is the Origin of everything else is necessarily self-existent and eternal. - Calvin
"Christ will not refuse to save the greatest sinners, who in a right manner come to God for mercy; for this is His work." - Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Edwards Vol. 2
[Magna Carta provided] “a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.”-Winston Churchill, Magna Carta and Man’s Quest for Freedom
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son. -Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) _Everybody's Autobiography_ [1937], Chapter 2
That which is the Origin of everything else is necessarily self-existent and eternal. - Calvin
"Christ will not refuse to save the greatest sinners, who in a right manner come to God for mercy; for this is His work." - Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Edwards Vol. 2
[Magna Carta provided] “a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.”-Winston Churchill, Magna Carta and Man’s Quest for Freedom
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son. -Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) _Everybody's Autobiography_ [1937], Chapter 2
Thursday, 27 July 2017
Quotes 28 Jul 17
Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you. - -J.I. Packer (1926- )_Knowing God_ [1973]
As long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffuse feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to the understanding.- Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution (186
7)
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.- John Calvin @JohnCalvinDaily
Martyred on July 27, 1681. His last words were “farewell, all relations and friends in Christ; farewell, acquaintances and earthly enjoyments; farewell, reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproach, and sufferings. Welcome, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; into Thy hands I commend my spirit.”- Donald Cargill
Britain is fortunate indeed in having a breed of distinguished people ...whom people come from all over the world to see. It would be an act of cruelty to impose that function of royalty on any normal family of citizens, but seeing that there is a family which is born to it as the fruit of a long historical evolution it would be an act of great political folly to establish a Presidency...I have such a strong sense of the political usefulness of British royalty to substantial and competent progressive forces in the society. - Brendan Clifford, "The Monarchy & Progress", in "Labour & Trade Union Review" Magazine, December 1987.
As long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffuse feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to the understanding.- Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution (186
7)
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.- John Calvin @JohnCalvinDaily
Martyred on July 27, 1681. His last words were “farewell, all relations and friends in Christ; farewell, acquaintances and earthly enjoyments; farewell, reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproach, and sufferings. Welcome, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; into Thy hands I commend my spirit.”- Donald Cargill
Britain is fortunate indeed in having a breed of distinguished people ...whom people come from all over the world to see. It would be an act of cruelty to impose that function of royalty on any normal family of citizens, but seeing that there is a family which is born to it as the fruit of a long historical evolution it would be an act of great political folly to establish a Presidency...I have such a strong sense of the political usefulness of British royalty to substantial and competent progressive forces in the society. - Brendan Clifford, "The Monarchy & Progress", in "Labour & Trade Union Review" Magazine, December 1987.
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Quotes 27 Jul 17
“Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.”- Enoch Powell, 8th June, 1973
Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as 'controversial, 'extremist', 'explosive', 'disgraceful', and overwhelmed with a violence and venom quite unknown to debate on mere political issues?It is because the whole power of the aggressor depends upon preventing people from seeing what is happening and from saying what they see."-Enoch Powell Speech to the Turves Green Girls School, Northfield, Birmingham (13 June 1970)
What I saw in Brooklyn is happening all across the West. Christianity’s decline is leading not to austere secularism, but to a wild flowering of shamanic healers, spirit crystals, and transcendental maharishis. [...] We may be tempted simply to have an urbane laugh at the follies of the superstitious, but that would be a mistake. They see something the great and good cannot: We live in a world full of spirits. Agnostic indifference to this fact may be possible for a time, but very few men are capable of sustained and thoroughgoing unbelief. This is why no superstition is more ridiculous than the pretense of secularism, and anyone who thinks Christianity will give way to atheism is a far greater fool than the most credulous ghost hunter. ~ Matthew Schmitz, "My Shamanic Healing" First Things, August 2017 https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/08/my-shamanic-healing
Christian denominations that embraced Feminism in the 20th century are the ones now overrun by LGBT activists. - Joshua D Jones @BlueCheezWhisky
Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as 'controversial, 'extremist', 'explosive', 'disgraceful', and overwhelmed with a violence and venom quite unknown to debate on mere political issues?It is because the whole power of the aggressor depends upon preventing people from seeing what is happening and from saying what they see."-Enoch Powell Speech to the Turves Green Girls School, Northfield, Birmingham (13 June 1970)
What I saw in Brooklyn is happening all across the West. Christianity’s decline is leading not to austere secularism, but to a wild flowering of shamanic healers, spirit crystals, and transcendental maharishis. [...] We may be tempted simply to have an urbane laugh at the follies of the superstitious, but that would be a mistake. They see something the great and good cannot: We live in a world full of spirits. Agnostic indifference to this fact may be possible for a time, but very few men are capable of sustained and thoroughgoing unbelief. This is why no superstition is more ridiculous than the pretense of secularism, and anyone who thinks Christianity will give way to atheism is a far greater fool than the most credulous ghost hunter. ~ Matthew Schmitz, "My Shamanic Healing" First Things, August 2017 https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/08/my-shamanic-healing
Christian denominations that embraced Feminism in the 20th century are the ones now overrun by LGBT activists. - Joshua D Jones @BlueCheezWhisky
Tuesday, 25 July 2017
Quotes 26 Jul 17
Real spiritual growth is always growth downward,
so to speak, into profounder humility, which in
healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age. -J.I. Packer (1926- )_Finishing Our Course With Joy_ [2014], "We Look Forward"
Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself
to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it
were, with no sense of direction and no understanding
of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul. -J.I. Packer (1926- )_Knowing God_ [1973]
We should] choose the leisure activities that bring
us closest to God, to people, to beauty, and to all that ennobles. -J.I. Packer (1926- ) _God's Plans For You_ [2001], "A Christian Style of Life"
Anyone who is actually following a recognized road
will not be too worried if he hears nontravelers
telling each other that no such road exists.-J.I. Packer (1926- ) _Knowing God_ [1973]
Quotes 25 Jul 17
Our work matters as part of a bigger picture. JFK at NASA to a Janitor: "what's your job?" Reply: "I helped put a man on the moon by…”- Dave Bish @davebish
I think that health is the greatest blessing that
God ever sends us, except sickness, which is far
better. I would give anything to be perfectly
healthy, but if I had to go over my time again, I
could not get on without those sickbeds and those
bitter pains and those weary, sleepless nights.
Oh, the blessedness that comes to us through suffering! -Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)_Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 38 [1892]
To love anyone is nothing else than to wish that person good - Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274)
Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the
covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely
does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us
his way, that we may tread it; he wills also to guide
us in the more fundamental sense of ensuring that,
whatever happens, whatever mistakes we may
make, we shall come safely home.
Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but
the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be
caught, rescued, restored. This is God's promise;
this is how good he is. -J.I. Packer (1926- )_Knowing God_ [1973]
I think that health is the greatest blessing that
God ever sends us, except sickness, which is far
better. I would give anything to be perfectly
healthy, but if I had to go over my time again, I
could not get on without those sickbeds and those
bitter pains and those weary, sleepless nights.
Oh, the blessedness that comes to us through suffering! -Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)_Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 38 [1892]
To love anyone is nothing else than to wish that person good - Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274)
Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the
covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely
does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us
his way, that we may tread it; he wills also to guide
us in the more fundamental sense of ensuring that,
whatever happens, whatever mistakes we may
make, we shall come safely home.
Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but
the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be
caught, rescued, restored. This is God's promise;
this is how good he is. -J.I. Packer (1926- )_Knowing God_ [1973]
Sunday, 23 July 2017
Quotes 24 Jul 17
"The church too often takes sin lightly because it takes God lightly. Lives of repentance flow out of lives of worship." —G.K. Beale, Westminster Seminary @WestminsterTS
"I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood."- Charles Spurgeon
Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.-- J.C7 ps20mat6
"Turning to the Lord in prayer for help and interceding for those we are anxious for is not a casual or infrequent thing, not if we are going to put into practice what those in the continuity of Scriptural teaching have tried to follow."- From The Life of Prayer, by Edith Schaeffer, 1992, page 157.
"I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood."- Charles Spurgeon
Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.-- J.C7 ps20mat6
"Turning to the Lord in prayer for help and interceding for those we are anxious for is not a casual or infrequent thing, not if we are going to put into practice what those in the continuity of Scriptural teaching have tried to follow."- From The Life of Prayer, by Edith Schaeffer, 1992, page 157.
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