Quotes 5 Feb 18

September 7th 1940 Joseph Kennedy (the US ambassador) walking down Piccadilly with a friend said to him, "I'll bet you five to one any sum that Hitler will be in Buckingham Palace in two weeks" It was time he advised the State department for the British to accept defeat." - Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks p113

So much of left wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know fire is hot.  - Orwell on W H Auden in Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks p127

 It is doubtful whether a fortress as strong as Singapore can be taken by storm - Orwell on BBC radio January 1942, - in Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks p143 It fell the next month, the worst ever British army defeat and by an outnumbered Japanese force.

This glory of Christ as Head is also accompanied by power and rule over all creatures. As King and Ruler over all things He effectively gathers the Church out of the world by His Word and Spirit and keeps it safe and guards it from the world & Satan until He will triumph over all- liam goligher‏ @LGoligher

The underlying, ultimate motive of all sin is to be like God.- Tmothy Keller @timkellernyc

Quotes 3 Feb 18

The nature of the beard contributes in an incredible degree to distinguish the maturity of bodies . . . to contribute to the beauty of manliness and strength. —LACTANTIUS

The beard signifes the courageous . . . the earnest, the active, the vigorous. So that when we describe such, we say, he is a bearded man. —SAINT AUGUSTINE

[God] adorned man like the lions, with a beard, and endowed him, as an attribute of manhood . . . a sign of strength. —CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA

Never underestimate how dark the earth and how broken Christ’s bride. But in the life and death and resurrection and ascension and session of the world’s true King ‘more can be mended than we know’ - Francis Spufford

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. -Pablo Picasso

Quotes 2 Feb 18

If Jesus is right, we don’t need role models; we need a saviour. We don’t need better hearts; we need new hearts.- San Allberry @SamAllberry

What we celebrate at Christmas is not so much the birth of a baby, as important as that is, but what’s so significant about the birth of that particular baby is that in this birth we have the incarnation of God himself.—R. C. Sproul

"You have gunpowder hearts -so ready to ignite from the least spark. Therefore keep out of harm's way."-George Everard.

Good travels at a snail's pace.  Those who want to  do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry,  they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time. --Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) (In Richard Attenborough's  _The Words of Gandhi_ [1982], "Cooperation") 

I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right. --"Rudy Baylor" (The narrator of John Grisham's _The Rainmaker_ [1995], Chapter 32) 

Quotes 1 Feb 18

“If God is not sovereign, then God is not God.”- R. C. Sproul (1939–2017)

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You will philosophise men into hell, but never into heaven. --C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) _Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 62 [1916]
http://www.spurgeon.us/mind_and_heart/quotes/p2.htm#philosophy

I go about with the Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other.  The two go well together, for the concentrated study of the newspaper is a Christian's duty as this Age draws to its close. --Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958) (Speech at Albert Hall, London; September 1926)

"Though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him."- @CSLewisDaily

Quotes 31 Jan 18

"A leader is a person with a magnet in his heart and a compass in his head."~ Howard Hendricks

The prospect of martyrdom brought Luther ever closer to God, ...As he wrote to Spalatin,' In Ali this I fear nothing as you know.'- Lyndal Roper, Martin Luther Renegade and Prophet, p.123

The difference between men and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by
unskilled labour.~ Arthur C. Clarke

Computers are like old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.~ Joseph B. Campbell 1904-87

How do you know when God is at the centre of your life?  When God's at the centre, you worship. When he's not, you worry. Worry is the warning light that God has been shoved to the sideline.  The moment you put him back at the centre, you will have peace again.--Rick Warren (1954-    ) _The Purpose Driven Life_ [2002], Chapter 40

Quotes 30 Jan 18

A good prayer should not be long and should not be drawn out, but should be frequent and fiery.- -Martin Luther in Lyndal Roper, Martin Luther Renegade and Prophet, p.147

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. -Mother Teresa

I have seen the writing on the wall. It’s in Arabic. - http://archbishopcranmer.com/rejoice-rejoice-young-rees-mogg-donned-underpants-rebellion-bowler-hat-bulldoggedness/#respond

I have friends who are atheists. It’s such rubbish. There’s this mate of mine he said come back to my flat and I’ll make you a cup of tea and we’ll talk the whole thing through. So I go back with him and he puts the kettle on. “ The thing is, Frank the universe-it just happened. A big bang, an accident, no one made it happen. There’s no great designer, no thought went into it or planning, it just happened- do you get it?…. Anyway, that cup of tea won’t make itself”

I said, “Why not?”- Frank Skinner on atheists:

Some praise books for their girth, as though they were written to exercise our arms, not our wits. --Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658) _The Art of Worldly Wisdom_ [1647], Maxim 27 

Quotes 29 Jan 18

Many of the Bible characters fell just in the things
in which they were thought to be strongest.  Moses
failed in his humility, Abraham in his faith, Elijah
in his courage, for one woman scared him away to
that juniper-tree; and Peter, whose strong point was
boldness, was so frightened by a maid, as to deny
his Lord.
     --Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899)
      (In Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert's
      _Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers_ [1895]

Disdain not your inferior, though poor, since he may be
your superior in wisdom, and the noble endowments
of mind.
     --George Shelley (1666-1736)
      _Sentences And Maxims Divine, Moral, And
       Historical, In Prose And Verse_ [1730]

Lord, save me from my own stupidity. Amen.- Chris Hatch@LondonHatch

"Evangelion (that we call the gospel) is a Greek word and signifieth good, merry, glad and joyful tidings, that maketh a man's heart glad and maketh him sing, dance, and leap for joy." -- William Tyndale

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of
certainties through my love for the truth;
and truth rewarded me.
     --Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)
      _All Said And Done_ [1974]