Quotes 30 Sep 17

All Governments rest mainly on public opinion, and to that of his own subjects every wise Sovereign will look. The opinion of his subjects will force a Sovereign to do his duty, and by that opinion will he be exalted or depressed in the politics of the world.-Lord Kenyon, Trial of John Vint and others (1799), 27 How. St. Tr. 640.

We do not identify the will of any sovereign with the will of God, . . . "All power is ordained of God." I realize that when Paul wrote this, Nero was in power . . .  Nevertheless, I will not subscribe to any interpretation that would oblige us to be obedient to the villain who holds a dagger under our nose, or to hail today as a power ordained of God the crowned robber who yesterday banished our legitimate prince. --Groen van Prinsterer, 1845

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved init as he who helps to perpetrate it.  He who acceptsevil without protesting against it is reallycooperating with it. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)  _Stride Toward Freedom_ [1958]

The Koran was written by at least thirty, probably fifty, and at most one hundred authors.
The Koran was written over a Span of more than two hundred years.
The designation of verses as either Mecca or Medina has no meaning.
Muhammad was enthroned as founder of Islam sixty years after his death.
Early Islam stemmed from a sect which was present in the Middle East at that time: the Nazarenes.- Jean-Jacyues Wulfer, APPLYING CODE THEORY T0 THE KORAN

Whatever subject I preach, I do not stop until I reach the Saviour, the Lord Jesus, for in Him are all things.- Charles Spurgeon‏ @Spurgeon

Quotes 29 Sep 17

The first king was a successful soldier; He who serves well his country has no need of ancestors.-Voltaire, Mérope. I. 3.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.--Elie Wiesel

Let kings be as David was, men after God's own heart, yet they will not want a Shimei to rail on them.-Finch, L.C.J., Hampden's Case (1637), 3 How. St. Tr. 1232.

God is love...and Christ is love covered over with flesh - Thomas Goodwin

I long for the death of Hefner's hedonistic, misogynistic, philosophy. It was from the pit of hell; that is where it belongs and that, ultimately, is where it will return. It was a fragmented, broken and perverted anti-human (and especially anti-woman) way of thinking. May God grant the Church the ability to proclaim and live a view of humanity which is the antithesis of Hefner's - holistic, healthy and beautifully holy. For Christ's sake. And ours.- David Robertson

Quotes 28 Sep 17

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.- Dennis Whol

Are all men in disguise except those crying? -Dannie Abse (1923-    ) _Encounter At A Greyhound Bus Station_ [1986]

"We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is
real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes,
of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are
ashamed of our naked skins." -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Man and Superman Act 1

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” ― Epictetus

God does not send us despair in order to kill us, he sends it in order to awaken us to new life. -Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)  _Reflections_ [1974], #192

Quotes 27 Sep 17

In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of physical equations,

whereas now it appears to me as a text written in invisible ink, of which in our rare moments of grace

we are able to decipher a small fragment.-Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) _Bricks to Babel: Selected Writings With Author's Comments_ [1980], "Epilogue"

The mental facility to detect conspiracies and betrayal are same qualities most likely to corrode 

natural judgment.  Everything that seems clear--is bent, and everything that seems bent--is clear. -"Dr. Fredericks" (Michael Gambon)(In the film _The Good Shepherd_ [2006], written by Eric Roth and directed by Robert De Niro) 

Narrated Ikrima: Ali burnt some people and this news reached Ibn 'Abbas, who said, "Had I been in his place I would not have burnt them, as the Prophet said, 'Don't punish (anybody) with Allah's Punishment.' No doubt, I would have killed them, for the Prophet said, 'If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him.' "- Sahih Bukhari 4:52:260

Most of the greatest gifts and deepest joys that God gives us come wrapped in painful packages.- Desiring God‏

Of 8,096 people registered homeless in London in 2015/16 – only 3,271 were British. Nearly 3,000 were from Eastern Europe or Central – 1,546 were Romanian.- https://theweeflea.com/2017/09/25/led-10-far-right-in-germany-the-eu-world-running-out-of-sand-transgender-study-banned-australian-ssm-intolerance-catalonia-and-kurdistan-reality-is-a-social-constuct-britons-on-the-toi/

Quotes 26 Sep 17

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you've ever been. The one constant in our lives is change. - Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness, 2006

A king is a great benefit be he never so evil. - W Tyndale, The Obedience of a Christen Man in  Brian Moynahan, Book of Fire, p152

Christ is never fully valued--until sin is clearly seen.- J.C. Ryle

 “And here we see why the so-called ‘democratic deficit’ in the European institutions is a built-in feature of them. The institutions were set up in such a way that they could be influenced from below, but controlled only from above. Accountability, however, means influence from above, but control from below – control by those whose interest is served, and who retain the ultimate remedy of ejection.” - Roger Scruton, “The Uses of Pessimism”

“One day millions of men will leave the southern hemisphere on this planet to burst into the northern one. But not as friends. Because they will burst into conquer, and they will conquer by populating it with their children. Victory will come to us from the wombs of our women.” Algerian President Houari Boumedienne in 1974 speaking to the Gen assembly of the United Nations Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe, p 212
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Quotes 25 Sep 17

Any biography of the prophet of Islam has no more value than a novel which is hoped to be historical. -Alfred Louis de Premare in Jean-Jacyues Wulfer, APPLYING CODE THEORY T0 THE KORAN

Christian! Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.-J.C. Ryle

"Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking." - J.M. Keynes

“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.” Epictetus  c. AD 50 – 135) Greek Stoic philosopher.

“Why do these young men and women (very often women) not reach out and find Christianity? Partly it is because most branches of European Christianity have lost the confidence to proselytise or even believe in their own message. For the Church of Sweden, the Church of England, the German Lutheran Church and many other branches of European Christianity, the message of the religion has become a form of left-wing politics, diversity action and social welfare projects. Such churches argue for ‘open borders’ yet are circumspect about quoting the texts they once preached as revealed.”Douglas Murray – The Strange Death of Europe (p264).

Quotes 23 Sep 17

The main difference between youth and age will always be that youth looks forward to life, and old age to death: and that while the one has a short past and a long future before it, the case is just the opposite with the other. --Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) _Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer_ [1851], "Counsels And Maxims"

Kings are like stars—they rise and set, they have
The worship of the world, but no repose.-Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hellas, Ma

In the past few days my spirits have soared and sank as I pursue the Lord’s will and consider what the future might look like, but never once have I doubted this: that Jesus is Lord, His blood has paid my ransom, and by His wounds I am healed. I have firm faith that my soul is saved by the grace and mercy of the Triune God, and not by any accomplishment or merit of my own. I am so thankful that I am a child of the Father, redeemed by the Son, and sealed in the Spirit. No, in the midst of the storm, I do not have to worry about my salvation, and for that I praise you, God. .- Nabeel Qureshi on learning he had advanced cancer

Christian! Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.-J.C. Ryle

“For the time being most politicians will continue to find the short-term benefits of taking the ‘compassionate’, ‘generous’ and ‘open’ course of action to be personally preferable even if it leads to long-term national problems. They will continue to believe, as they have done for decades, that it is better to put these difficult matters of so that their successors have to deal with the consequences instead. So they will continue to ensure that Europe is the only place in the world that belongs to the world. It is already clear what type of society will result. By the middle of this century, while China will properly still look like China, India will probably still look like India, Russia like Russia, and Eastern Europe like Eastern Europe, Western Europe will at best resemble a large scale version of the United Nations. Many people will welcome this, and it will have its pleasures of course. Certainly not everything about it would be a catastrophe. Many people enjoy living in such Europe. It will continue to enjoy cheap services, at least for a time, as incomers compete with those already here to do work for less and less money. There will be an endless influx of new neighbours and staff, and there will be many interesting conversations to be had. This place were international cities develop into something resembling international countries will be many things. But it will not be Europe any more.Perhaps the European lifestyle, culture and outlook will survive in small pockets. A pattern that is already underway will mean that there will be some rural areas where immigrant communities choose not to live and towards which non-immigrants retreat. Those who have the resources will – as is already the case – be able to sustain a recognisably similar lifestyle for a while longer. The less well off will have to accept they do not live in a place that is their home but in one that is a home for the world. And whilst incomers will be encouraged to pursue their traditions and lifestyles, Europeans whose families have been here for generations will most likely continue to be told that there is an oppressive, outdated tradition, even as they constitute a smaller and smaller minority of the population. This is not science fiction. It is simply what the current situation looks like in much of Western Europe and what the demographic projections show the conscience future to be.Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe, p 212”https://theweeflea.com/2017/08/11/the-strange-death-of-europe-part-2-immigration