Quotes 28 Feb

The Christian mind has lo these many years been pretty well switched off as far as ordinary life is concerned. ...Of course in religion and morals it has tried to do its own cooking; but across the rest of life - schooling, housing, marrying; working, playing, spending- it has been content to buy whatever packaged mixes were available on the shelves of the secular idea market. - Robert Farrar Capon, Bed and Board, p 33

Keep constantly in mind the saying, "The eye is not 

satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with 

hearing."  Strive to withdraw your heart from the 

love of visible things, and direct your affections 

to things invisible.  For those who follow only 

their natural inclinations defile their conscience, 

and lose the grace of God. 

     --Thomas A' Kempis (1380-1471) 

      _The Imitation Of Christ_ [c. 1420]; Book 1, Chapter 1 

The philosopher Plato said that those who love and seek wisdom are 

clinging in recollection (or remembrance) to things that they once had 

seen. On many occasions in my life I have had the need to say, and 

thankfully have been able to say: I know what a good worker is; I know 

what an honest man is; I know what friendship is; I know because I 

remember these things in the person of my father, in the person of his 

friend Hora, and in the example of their friendship. 

== Raimond Gaita [on his father Romulus Gaita], "Romulus my father", 

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and 

to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful 

and his children smart. 

== H. L. Mencken, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks, 1956 

Every head turned, and the teacher stared, aghast. "How dare you say 

such a thing?" he demanded. "I dare say anything," I replied more 

cheerfully, "because I have a fast horse."  Several of the students 

laughed, and one shouted, "Well spoken, soldier!" "Have you no 

reverence?" the teacher demanded.     "I have reverence for all who 

ask questions and seek honest answers."  "A philosopher!" laughed a 

student. "A wanderer in search of answers," I said, then to the 

teacher, "You asked if I have reverence? I have reverence for truth, 

but I do not know what truth is. I suspect there are many truths, and 

therefore, I suspect all who claim to have 'the' truth." Walking my 

horse a few steps closer, I added, "I have reverence for the inquirer, 

for the seeker. I have no reverence for those who accept any idea, 

mine included, without question." "You are a heretic!" he threatened. 

"I am a pagan, and a pagan cannot be a heretic." "You ride an infidel 

horse." "My horse has never committed herself, but judging by her 

attitude on a frosty morning, she is an unbeliever." There were 

subdued chuckles, and the teacher's eyes narrowed. "You ridicule the 

Church," he threatened. "Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I 

have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are 

against so many things and for so little." 

==Louis L'Amour, Walking Drum 

Quotes 27 Feb

We get too sook old and too late smart, but with a loving God and forgiving friends, I am grateful and glad. - Robert Farrar Capon, Bed and Board, p 18

Justin Welby said the Islamic rules are incompatible with Britain’s laws, which have developed over 500 years on the principles of a different culture....He said yesterday in advance of publication that British law has ‘underlying values and assumptions’ that come from a clearly Christian tradition. ‘Sharia law is not just about punishments,’ he added. ‘It is something of immense sophistication, but it comes from a very different background of jurisprudence to the one from which British law has developed over the past 500 years’....The problem is reimagining Britain through values applied in action can only work where the narrative of the country is coherent and embracing.’ The Archbishop said: ‘Sharia, which has a powerful and ancient cultural narrative of its own, deeply embedded in a system of faith and understanding of God, and thus especially powerful in forming identity, cannot become part of another narrative.‘Accepting it in part implies accepting its values around the nature of the human person, attitudes to outsiders, the revelation of God, and a basis for life in law, rather than grace, the formative word of Christian culture.’-http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5428849/Welby-Islamic-rules-incompatible-British-laws.html

Keep constantly in mind the saying, "The eye is not 

satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with 

hearing."  Strive to withdraw your heart from the 

love of visible things, and direct your affections 

to things invisible.  For those who follow only 

their natural inclinations defile their conscience, 

and lose the grace of God. 

     --Thomas A' Kempis (1380-1471) 

      _The Imitation Of Christ_ [c. 1420]; Book 1, Chapter 1 

The philosopher Plato said that those who love and seek wisdom are 

clinging in recollection (or remembrance) to things that they once had 

seen. On many occasions in my life I have had the need to say, and 

thankfully have been able to say: I know what a good worker is; I know 

what an honest man is; I know what friendship is; I know because I 

remember these things in the person of my father, in the person of his 

friend Hora, and in the example of their friendship. 

== Raimond Gaita [on his father Romulus Gaita], "Romulus my father", 

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and 

to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful 

and his children smart. 

== H. L. Mencken, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks, 1956 

 

Quotes 26 Feb

It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life it is how you handle what happens to you.-Life Quotes@liife_quote

Arguing with a fool only proves that there are two.-ife Quotes@liife_quote

From the totalitarian point of view history is something to be created rather than learned~ George Orwell

The Christian mind has lo these many years been pretty well switched off as far as ordinary life is concerned. ...Of course in religion and morals it has tried to do its own cooking; but across the rest of life - schooling, housing, marrying; working, playing, spending- it has been content to buy whatever packaged mixes were available on the shelves of the secular idea market. - Robert Farrar Capon, Bed and Board, p 33

About sex especially men are born mad; and they hardly reach sanity until they reach sanctity.- G K Chesterton quoted in - Robert Farrar Capon, Bed and Board, p 48

Quotes 24 Feb 18

I think God has sent it [Parkinson's Disease] at
this age to show me that I'm totally dependent
on Him.
     --Billy Graham (1918-2018)
      _Midwest Today_ [January 1997]

  When I was a child,
I hid as a child,
I hoped as a child,
I prayed as a child.
When my government didn't protect me,
I put away childish things.
--Christopher Weyant
      (Political cartoon; February 21, 2018)

Official figures suggest crime is on a downward trend but officers say many victims have stopped reporting incidents while organised crime syndicates have been given a free rein.
“Only one in nine criminal groups can be tackled with the current people and resources,” the report given to the De Telegraaf newspaper says. “Detectives see that small criminals develop into wealthy entrepreneurs who establish themselves in the hospitality industry, housing market, middle class, travel agencies.”
The paper from the Dutch police union, based on interviews with 400 detectives, adds: “The Netherlands fulfils many characteristics of a narco-state. Detectives see a parallel economy emerge.”- The Guardian

Quotes 23 Feb 18

Atheism is the ultimate delusion - Debating Delusions – Proclaiming Christ in the Public Square by theweeflea 2018-02-21 @wordpress.com>

The kingdom of God is camouflaged in carnage. It grows like a seed, with division, delay, disappointment; it is hidden in plain sight, it is dressed in riddles and paradox, it will grow to be a tree that will fill the whole earth.- David Gibson@davidngibbo

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a
shower.
     --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

    If a friend tell thee a fault, imagine always that he telleth
thee not the whole.
        --Thomas Fuller (I), _Introductio ad Prudentium_, 1731

        It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he
is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
        --Arnold Bennett

Quotes 22 Feb 18

Atheism is the ultimate delusion - Debating Delusions – Proclaiming Christ in the Public Square by theweeflea 2018-02-21 @wordpress.com>

The kingdom of God is camouflaged in carnage. It grows like a seed, with division, delay, disappointment; it is hidden in plain sight, it is dressed in riddles and paradox, it will grow to be a tree that will fill the whole earth.- David Gibson@davidngibbo

 Jesus invited us, not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage;
not to a frolic, but to a fight.  He offered us, not an
excursion, but an execution.  Our Savior said that
we would have to be ready to die to self, sin, and
the world.
     --Billy Graham (1918-2018)
      (In Martin H. Manser's _The Westminster Collection
       of Christian Quotations_ [2001], "Discipleship")

Quotes 21 Feb 18

'It has been obvious for years that Richard Dawkins had a fat book on religion in him, but who would have thought him capable of writing one this bad? Incurious, dogmatic, rambling and self-contradictory, it has none of the style or verve of his earlier works.'-Prospect magazine on R Dawkins, The God Delusion

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.-Chinese Proverb

Those in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to God, who makes them to differ from others. Godliness is no cause for glorying, except it be in God. - Jonathan Edwards@Heart_Aflame