Quotes 31 Jul.

The ideological goal of third-wave feminism was not equality of men and women. It was the overthrow of the God of the Bible and the destruction of the traditional family. ‘Feminism began with the deconstruction of a Judeo-Christian view of womanhood (the right to name self); progressed to the deconstruction of manhood, gender relationships, family/societal structures, and a Judeo-Christian worldview (the right to name the world); and concluded with the concept of metaphysical pluralism, self-deification, and the rejection of the Judeo-Christian deity (the right to name God),’ Mary Kassian, The Feminist Mistake: The Radical Impact of Feminism on Church and Culture,

‘Feminism hadn’t been about equal rights for a long time. The goal was renunciation of heterosexuality and the destruction of the family and the church – social structures that cannot exist without the union of man and woman in marriage.’ - Gabriele Kuby

Part of the reason the Church of England surrendered so soon to the onslaught of feminism is its inherent leanings towards socialism and its left wing ideology of egalitarianism. Anglican feminists accepted both the basis and the strategy proposed by Simone de Beauvoir in her book The Second Sex. De Beauvoir declared that women needed to identify themselves as a group and collectively declare war on men. Equality would be achieved only by destroying male superiority and by refusing to succumb to a traditional role. In this case, it would mean elevating women to the priesthood and episcopate.- Jules Gomes,https://www.julesgomes.com/single-post/How-feminist-Dambusters-destroyed-the-Church-of-England-beyond-repair, How feminist “Dambusters” destroyed the Church of England beyond repair, July 24, 2018

Anxiety (Not clinical, but rather the regular angst we have) is a daily statement to God saying, "I don't think you have my best interest in mind."- Timothy Keller
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Whoever has been cut to the quick and overwhelmed with a sense of their own sin will surely seek the grace offered to him in Jesus Christ, and the world will be worth nothing to him. - John Calvin @JohnCalvinDaily

Quotes 30 Jul

Let us resolve…to speak nothing harsh or unkind of each other. The sure way to avoid this is to say all the good we can both of and to another; in all our conversation, either with or concerning each other, to use only the language of love, to speak with all softness and tenderness, with the most endearing expression, which is consistent with truth and sincerity.- John Wesley

‘If I never spoke of hell, I should look on myself as an accomplice of the devil.’
-J. C. Ryle

In 1935, Oxford anthropologist Joseph Unwin tried to prove that marriage was an irrelevant institution and the dam of sexual restraint could be blown up without any major blowback. After studying 86 different cultures over several centuries, his research led him to conclude precisely the opposite.- Jules Gomes,https://www.julesgomes.com/single-post/How-feminist-Dambusters-destroyed-the-Church-of-England-beyond-repair, How feminist “Dambusters” destroyed the Church of England beyond repair, July 24, 2018
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‘Any human society is free to choose either to display great energy or to enjoy sexual freedom; the evidence is that it cannot do both for more than one generation,’ - Joseph Unwin, Sex and Culture.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up,’ -  G K Chesterton.

Quotes 28 Jul

Let us resolve…to speak nothing harsh or unkind of each other. The sure way to avoid this is to say all the good we can both of and to another; in all our conversation, either with or concerning each other, to use only the language of love, to speak with all softness and tenderness, with the most endearing expression, which is consistent with truth and sincerity.- John Wesley

“...choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.” Hebrews 11:25
I love the realism of this. Let’s not pretend sin isn’t pleasurable, but realise it is never ultimately worth it. It forfeits more pleasure than it provides.- Sam Allberry @SamAllberry

I cannot be in Christ and lose. Never!! - Gordon A Gordon-Osagiede

There are many Christian wives who delight in submitting to their husbands because it honours their spouse, it honours the gospel and it honours Christ. It’s a powerful thing when they affirm this.- Gavin Peacock@GPeacock8

“There are two kinds of people in the world, only two kinds. Not black & white, not rich & poor; there are those who are dead #in sin & those who are dead #to sin.” - Leonard Ravenhill

Quotes 27 Jul

I bless God, he has for some years given me an abiding conviction, that it is impossible for any rational creature to enjoy true happiness without being entirely “devoted to him.” Under the influence of this conviction I have in some measure acted. Oh that I had done more so! - @BrainerdQuotes

You will never fully convince someone that he is wrong; only reality can. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”. - attributed to George Orwell

Jesus was “full of grace and truth” (Jn 1:14)Grace and truth come together in Christ. They are not in tension; they do not need to be balanced.You cannot have one without having both. If you think you have one without the other, you have neither.If your thing is kindness and grace, but you never stand for hard truths, it is not biblical grace you embody but something counterfeit.If your thing is truth, but you lack grace and kindness, it is not biblical truth you are driven by but more likely a love of being right.- Sam Allberry@SamAllberry

Offending people today is child’s play: Merely state the obvious. ~ Patrick Kurp, 2007

Quotes 26 Jul

Because of this mobile device, you have now an absence 

of what I call leisurely reading.  You have a generation 

(whose) brains have been wired to look at short pieces 

with not long attention spans--part of a physiological 

change in your brain, literally. [...] 

Kids today want to buy vinyl records.  So you'll have 

hipster kids wanting to see paper soon. I don't think 

touching paper and reading will actually go away. 

There will be a need for leisurely reading and the 

tactile feel. 

--Patrick Soon-Shiong (1952-    ) 

      _TheGuardian.Com_ [July 21, 2018], 

      "The Billionaire Who Bought The LA Times: 

      'Hipsters Will Want Paper Soon'" 

If an atheist derides Christianity there’s no ‘phobia’ to wave at them in admonition. The comfort of having an invented phobia to protect you from your detractors is a privilege reserved for Western self-obliterationists’ chosen people. -- Aidan McCourt on Twitter 

Today, our little ones are exposed to every kind 

of perversion and danger with a click of a button-- 

be it TV, Internet, cell phones, or just a stroll 

through the local mall.  Today, the words of the 

weeping prophet Jeremiah cause a lump in my 

throat as I read them aloud.  Speaking of a sinful 

generation, the Lord said: 

"Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? 

     No, they have no shame at all; they do not even 

     know how to blush.  So they will fall among the 

     fallen; they will be brought down when I punish 

     them." --Jeremiah 6:15 NIV 

In an age where gay and lesbian experimentation is 

considered normal on campuses, when oral sex and 

every type of perversion imaginable is just winked 

at (kids call that "technical virginity" now), when 

sexual affairs before and after marriage are totally 

acceptable, our little ones are positioned to be an 

unblushable generation. 

Already they are becoming so familiar with sin that 

when they see immodest filth, they giggle when they 

should instead blush and turn away. 

--Jentezen Franklin (1962-    ) 

      _Fasting_ [2008], "For The Little Ones"

‘You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me. -  Calvin Coolidge

"Disillusionment with our local church is a good thing because it destroys our false expectations of perfection. The sooner we give up the illusion that a church must be perfect in order to love it, the sooner we quit pretending and start admitting we're all imperfect and need grace. This is the beginning of real community." Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Life Together

Quotes 25 Jul

“Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.” --Mark Twain, “The Gorky Incident

“PEDANTRY may be defined, for the purpose of this book, as the saying of things in language so learned or so demonstratively accurate as to imply a slur upon the generality, who are not capable or not desirous of such displays. The term, then, is obviously a relative one; my pedantry is your scholarship, his reasonable accuracy, her irreducible minimum of education, & someone else’s ignorance.” --H.W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage

I think Trump may be one of those figures in history who appears from time to time to mark the end of an era and to force it to give up its old pretences. It doesn’t necessarily mean that he knows this, or that he is considering any great alternative. It could just be an accident. -- Henry Kissinger

Elections give the illusion of freedom but are in
fact a game among the powers that be, this is
why we talk of "formal democracy."
Instead of drawing forth the best energies of a
people, this legal institution hands actual control
to very different forces, turning democracy into
another form of oligarchy and dictatorship.
--Karl Jaspers (1883-1969)
      _The Future Of Mankind_ [1958], Chapter 17

Enthusiasm for a medium that keeps you away from human beings strikes me
as worrying.~ Ian Hislop 1960- (1996)

Quotes 24 Jul

Oh, my dear God, I am speedily coming to thee, I hope. Hasten the day, O Lord, if it be thy blessed will. Oh come, Lord Jesus, come quickly. Amen. -David Brainerd @BrainerdQuotes

“What is going on in this country is giving me chills. Trump is not like Hitler. Just because a leader wants order doesn’t mean they’re like a dictator.What reminds me more of Hitler than anything else isn’t Trump, it’s the destruction of freedom of speech on the college campuses — the agendas fueled by the professors.That’s how Hitler started, he pulled in the youth to miseducate them, to brainwash them, it’s happening today.I see what is happening here reflecting some of the things we saw in Germany, and it’s terrifying. It’s sad. But it’s not because of Trump. It’s because of poor education.Trump is not like Hitler. The theory that he is is propaganda. Yes, I lived through some of Nazi Germany, but all you have to do is read some books about that period to see how wrong that theory is.It saddens me that we are teaching garbage in the schools and in the college. We don’t teach history anymore. History repeats itself over and over.
America needs to grow up. The young people who are rioting and destroying property, who have no respect for elders and freedom of speech, I was so proud to become a citizen of this country.Professors shouldn’t be telling their students to go after freedom of speech. They should be telling them that this is the greatest country in the world.The demonstrators can’t tell you why they’re demonstrating. I’m not a Republican. I’m not a Democrat. I just want the country to be at peace.
I see what is happening here reflecting some of the things we saw in Germany, and it’s terrifying. It’s sad. But it’s not because of Trump. It’s because of poor education.Trump is not like Hitler. The theory that he is is propaganda. Yes, I lived through some of Nazi Germany, but all you have to do is read some books about that period to see how wrong that theory is.”
My point in saying all this is that if people aren’t able to see outside of one world view, that’s what happens. They buy the propaganda. And that’s what is happening today. And if people aren’t educated properly and given the ability to think freely — we will repeat that history.” - Inga Andrews, https://yournewswire.com/woman-hitler-germany-liberals-nazis/

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.- Calvin Coolidge