The birds are moulting. If only man could moult also -- his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions. - James Allen (1849 - 1925)
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above little things." --John Burroughs (1837-1921)
THE object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards. Unless a man be born again, he shall by no means enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. - G.K. Chesterton, 'Daily News.'
Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)_Prayers and Meditations_
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's. - Henry Moore (1898 - 1986)
Resolutions, like the good, die young. --Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979) _Thinking Life Through_ [1955]
Good resolutions are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.--Oscar Wilde
Sunday, 31 December 2017
Quotes New Year's Day 2018
Those who only consider Calvin as theologian do not understand the extent of his genius. The drawing up of our wise edicts, in which he played a large part, does him as much honour as his Institutes ... As long as love of the homeland and liberty s not extinguished among us, the memory of that great man will never cease to be blessed.- Jean-Jaques Rousseau, On the Social Contact, quoted in David B Calhoun, Knowing God and Ourselves, p 325
“I have a peaceful study, as a refuge from the hurries and noise of the world around me; the venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me, and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.” — Samuel Davies
“Only a fool loans books; half the books in my library were loaned.” - Ben Franklin
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other people have lent me.– Anatole France
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. -Kahlil Gibran
“I have a peaceful study, as a refuge from the hurries and noise of the world around me; the venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me, and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.” — Samuel Davies
“Only a fool loans books; half the books in my library were loaned.” - Ben Franklin
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other people have lent me.– Anatole France
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. -Kahlil Gibran
Friday, 29 December 2017
Quotes 30 Dec 17
“The Christian life is a life of non-conformity.”- R. C. Sproul (1939–2017)
“God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.”
― C.S. Lewis
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. -Thomas Jefferson
“Ignorance of providence is the ultimate of all miseries; the highest blessedness lies in the knowledge of it.” - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
“Men cannot abide with God in spiritual meditations. He loses soul’s company by their want of this insight into his love. They fix their thoughts only on his terrible majesty, severity, and greatness; and so their spirits are not endeared. Would a soul continually eye his everlasting tenderness and compassion, his thoughts of kindness that have been from of old, his present gracious acceptance, it could not bear an hour's absence from him; whereas now, perhaps, it cannot watch with him one hour. Let, then, this be the saints first notion of the Father, – as one full of eternal, free love towards them:”John Owen, The Glory of Christ(P32).
Quotes 29 Dec 17
“If there is no sanctification, it means that there never was any justification.”- R. C. Sproul (1939–2017
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. -John F. Kennedy
“Each year, month, and day is governed by a new, a special, providence of God.” - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion,
Owen argues that there is a difference between gospel repentance and legal or bondage repentance. The latter is "full of dread, amazement, terror, self-love, astonishment at the presence of God". The former "consisting of godly sorrow for sin, with its relinquishment, proceeding from faith, love, and abhorrence of sin, on account of Father, Son and Spirit, both law and love, –“ John Owen, The Glory of Christ(page 196) Thorpe
Thou who hast given so much to me, give one thing more-- a grateful heart.--George Herbert (1593-1633)(In George Sweeting's _Who Said That?_ [1995],"Thanks And Praise")
Wednesday, 27 December 2017
Quotes 28 Dec 17
“Only once in sacred Scripture is an attribute of God elevated to the third degree. Only once is a characteristic of God mentioned three times in succession. The Bible says that God is holy, holy, holy.”- R. C. Sproul (1939–2017)
“He sustains, nourishes, and cares for everything he has made, even to the least sparrow.” - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
"There are Gibeonites outwardly attending the family of God, but do the service of his house as the drudgery of their lives. The principal they yield obedience upon, is a spirit of bondage and to fear, Romans 8:15; the rule they do it by, is the law in its dread and rigour, exacting it of them to the utmost, without mercy and mitigation; the end they do it for, is to fly from the wrath to come, to pacify conscience, and seek righteousness as it were by the works of the law. Thus servilely, painfully, fruitlessly, they seek to serve their own conviction all their days." John Owen, The Glory of Christ(Page 213)
"...it is a very suitable thing, and well pleasing to God, for many people, in different parts of the world, by express agreement, to come into a visible union in extraordinary, speedy, and fervent, and constant prayer...which shall bring one that advancement of Christ's church and kingdom..." - Jonathan Edwards A Call to Extraordinary Prayer: An Humble Attempt
Gratitude is a very rare thing. If any of you try to do good for the sake of getting gratitude, you will find it one of the most profitless trades in the world.If you can do good, expecting to be abused for it, you will get your reward; but if you do good, with an expectation of gratitude in return, you will be bitterly disappointed.--Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)_Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 51 [1905]
“He sustains, nourishes, and cares for everything he has made, even to the least sparrow.” - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
"There are Gibeonites outwardly attending the family of God, but do the service of his house as the drudgery of their lives. The principal they yield obedience upon, is a spirit of bondage and to fear, Romans 8:15; the rule they do it by, is the law in its dread and rigour, exacting it of them to the utmost, without mercy and mitigation; the end they do it for, is to fly from the wrath to come, to pacify conscience, and seek righteousness as it were by the works of the law. Thus servilely, painfully, fruitlessly, they seek to serve their own conviction all their days." John Owen, The Glory of Christ(Page 213)
"...it is a very suitable thing, and well pleasing to God, for many people, in different parts of the world, by express agreement, to come into a visible union in extraordinary, speedy, and fervent, and constant prayer...which shall bring one that advancement of Christ's church and kingdom..." - Jonathan Edwards A Call to Extraordinary Prayer: An Humble Attempt
Gratitude is a very rare thing. If any of you try to do good for the sake of getting gratitude, you will find it one of the most profitless trades in the world.If you can do good, expecting to be abused for it, you will get your reward; but if you do good, with an expectation of gratitude in return, you will be bitterly disappointed.--Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)_Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 51 [1905]
Tuesday, 26 December 2017
Quotes Dec 27
“Nobody was ever saved by a profession of faith. You have to possess faith.”- R. C. Sproul (1939–2017)
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. -Euripides
The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. -Jayaram
Accept your past with no regrets, handle your present with confidence, and face your future with no fear.- Life Quotes@liife_quote
“The love of God in itself is the eternal purpose and act of his will. This is no more changeable than God himself: if it were, no flesh could be saved; but it does not change, and we are not consumed. What then? Does he love his people in their sinning? Yes; people, – not their sinning. Does he alter his love towards them? Not the purpose of his will, but the dispensations of his grace. He rebukes them, he chastens them, he hides his face from them, smites them, he fills them with a sense of his indignation; but woe, woe would it be to us, should he change in his love, or take away his kindness from us!" John Owen, The Glory of Christ(Page 31)
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. -Euripides
The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. -Jayaram
Accept your past with no regrets, handle your present with confidence, and face your future with no fear.- Life Quotes@liife_quote
“The love of God in itself is the eternal purpose and act of his will. This is no more changeable than God himself: if it were, no flesh could be saved; but it does not change, and we are not consumed. What then? Does he love his people in their sinning? Yes; people, – not their sinning. Does he alter his love towards them? Not the purpose of his will, but the dispensations of his grace. He rebukes them, he chastens them, he hides his face from them, smites them, he fills them with a sense of his indignation; but woe, woe would it be to us, should he change in his love, or take away his kindness from us!" John Owen, The Glory of Christ(Page 31)
Quotes 26 Dec 17
His birth had to be a virgin birth. If it wasn’t, then the resulting child could only be human. He could not be Immanuel, God with us. —@GuyMRichard
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts" - Winston Churchill.
'Men live 20 years like a man, then he enters adulthood and spends 30 years like a donkey, working and carrying the load on his back, then when his children leave home, spends 15 years like a dog, looking after the house and eating whatever is given to him, then he gets into retirement, and spends 10 years like a monkey, jumping from house to house or from children to children, doing silly things to amuse the grandchildren'- Peter Mason
I know only one truth: work alone creates happiness.I am sure only of that one thing, and I forget it all the time." -The Journal of Jules Renard by Jules Renard ---Sea
Only the Word made flesh can give any sort of hope in a world as grim and ugly and hard and sordid as ours. --Lynn Harold Hough (1877-1971) (In Frank S. Mead's _12,000 Religious Quotations_ [1996], "The Incarnation")
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts" - Winston Churchill.
'Men live 20 years like a man, then he enters adulthood and spends 30 years like a donkey, working and carrying the load on his back, then when his children leave home, spends 15 years like a dog, looking after the house and eating whatever is given to him, then he gets into retirement, and spends 10 years like a monkey, jumping from house to house or from children to children, doing silly things to amuse the grandchildren'- Peter Mason
I know only one truth: work alone creates happiness.I am sure only of that one thing, and I forget it all the time." -The Journal of Jules Renard by Jules Renard ---Sea
Only the Word made flesh can give any sort of hope in a world as grim and ugly and hard and sordid as ours. --Lynn Harold Hough (1877-1971) (In Frank S. Mead's _12,000 Religious Quotations_ [1996], "The Incarnation")
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