"O my friends, how thankful should we be for sleep."- Charles Spurgeon
The biggest hoax in the world for the last 150 years, has been the theory of evolution! - Martyn Lloyd-Jones
I think the church of England enters into the natural life purpose of the country - that she is associated in a great degree with the feelings, the traditions, as well as the history of England; and there in my opinion very many who do not formally belong to her company who would with deep regret witness her downfall. - W E Gladstone, speech, August 1868
True freedom is where no restraint is known,
That Scripture, justice, and good sense disown;
Where only vice and injury are tied,
And all from shore to shore is free beside.
Expostulation by William Cowper
When I first left England, my hope ft the conversion of the season was very strong,but, among so many obstacles, it would entirely die away, unless a upheld of God... no earthly thing to depend upon, or earthly comfort, except food and raiment,. Well, I have God, and his word is sure. Though the superstitions of this heathen where a thousand times stronger than they are, and the example of the Europeans a thousand times worse; though I were deserted by all and persecuted by all, yet my faith, fixed on that sure Word, yet my faith would rise above all obstacles and overcome every trial. God's cause will triumph. - - William Carey, letter, in John Legg, The footsteps of God, p.263
Monday, 8 October 2018
Sunday, 7 October 2018
Oct 8 quotes
Intellectual pride is the last citadel of self. - Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that
they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time
they are the very source of all anxiety.
==Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost Of Discipleship, 1937
“All persons have need to dread the future, except the Christian.” - Charles Spurgeon
We are what we are today in Jesus Christ because God has a plan. It's not something uncertain. It's not something wistful. It's not some fleeting thing. It is a sure thing—a definite thing that goes back into eternity.- Derek Thomas@DerekWHThomas
Weary? Jesus says come to me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest
Worried? Cast yours cares on him for he cares for you
Carrying something too heavy for you? He says take my yoke upon you for my yolk is easy and my burden is light. - Sermon 7 Oct 2018, Paul Levy@ealinglevy
Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that
they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time
they are the very source of all anxiety.
==Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost Of Discipleship, 1937
“All persons have need to dread the future, except the Christian.” - Charles Spurgeon
We are what we are today in Jesus Christ because God has a plan. It's not something uncertain. It's not something wistful. It's not some fleeting thing. It is a sure thing—a definite thing that goes back into eternity.- Derek Thomas@DerekWHThomas
Weary? Jesus says come to me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest
Worried? Cast yours cares on him for he cares for you
Carrying something too heavy for you? He says take my yoke upon you for my yolk is easy and my burden is light. - Sermon 7 Oct 2018, Paul Levy@ealinglevy
Friday, 5 October 2018
Quotes Oct 6
The state of the world today, is nothing but an appalling monument to human failure. - Martyn Lloyd-Jones
"With an elite providing the arbitrary absolutes, not just TV but the general apparatus of the mass media can be a vehicle for manipulation. There is no need for collusion or a plot. All that is needed is that the world-view of the elite and the world-view of the central news media coincide."~ Francis Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live?
I(William Carey) am in a strange land, akin, no Christian friend, large family and nothing to supply their wants ... Now all my friends are one; I rejoice, however, that he is all sufficient and can supply all my wants, spiritual and temporal ... Everything is
known to God and God cares for the nation. - William Carey letter to a friend, in John Legg, The footsteps of God, callp263
Post truth - An adjective defined as ' relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and and personal belief.' Oxford dictionary's word is the year 2016,
Somewhere someone is out to hide the truth. Find that. That is news. All the rest is merely advertisement. - Aroon Purie, editor in chief of India Today, quoted in Patrick Sookhdeo, The death of Western Christianity, p70
"With an elite providing the arbitrary absolutes, not just TV but the general apparatus of the mass media can be a vehicle for manipulation. There is no need for collusion or a plot. All that is needed is that the world-view of the elite and the world-view of the central news media coincide."~ Francis Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live?
I(William Carey) am in a strange land, akin, no Christian friend, large family and nothing to supply their wants ... Now all my friends are one; I rejoice, however, that he is all sufficient and can supply all my wants, spiritual and temporal ... Everything is
known to God and God cares for the nation. - William Carey letter to a friend, in John Legg, The footsteps of God, callp263
Post truth - An adjective defined as ' relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and and personal belief.' Oxford dictionary's word is the year 2016,
Somewhere someone is out to hide the truth. Find that. That is news. All the rest is merely advertisement. - Aroon Purie, editor in chief of India Today, quoted in Patrick Sookhdeo, The death of Western Christianity, p70
Thursday, 4 October 2018
Quotes Oct 5
Nothing we do in the Christian life, is harder than prayer. - Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The further society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it” George Orwell.
“To be a Christian is, by definition, to be a cross-cultural missionary. So we have to do the hard work of understanding our culture.” @_JohnStevens
The meaning of marriage is the display of the covenant keeping love between Christ and his
people. -John Piper, This momentary marriage, P.15
It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love. - Dietrich Bonhoffer, Letters and papers from prison 27 - 28
The further society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it” George Orwell.
“To be a Christian is, by definition, to be a cross-cultural missionary. So we have to do the hard work of understanding our culture.” @_JohnStevens
The meaning of marriage is the display of the covenant keeping love between Christ and his
people. -John Piper, This momentary marriage, P.15
It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love. - Dietrich Bonhoffer, Letters and papers from prison 27 - 28
Quotes Oct 4
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more. P. G. Wodehouse
One of the most haunting sentences I have read in recent years is in a memoir of The Troubles by the distinguished journalist Kevin Myers. In Watching the Door, he referred to the nadir of the violence in Northern Ireland. A stage had been arrived at, Myers said, in which people had utterly different perceptions and interpretations of the facts happening around them, interpreting their own versions of events through the lens of their own sectarian side. Even words had become meaningless. “In the absence of an agreed reality,” Myers wrote, the province had gotten to the stage where truth was “whatever you’re having yourself.”- How America Can Recover from the Kavanaugh Confirmation Controversy, DOUGLAS MURRAY, October 2, 2018, https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-controversy-amercias-recovery/
There are no shortcuts in the Christian life--no simple remedies. - Martyn Lloyd-Jones
If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he
should arise sound the next morning; or a man today,
in despicable poverty, had assurance that he should
tomorrow arise a prince; would they be afraid to go
to bed? --Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
(In Isaac David Thomas' _The Golden Treasury
Of Puritan Quotations_ [1975], "Death")
If you want everyone to be happy, don’t be a pastor. Go sell ice cream.- Joshua D Jones
One of the most haunting sentences I have read in recent years is in a memoir of The Troubles by the distinguished journalist Kevin Myers. In Watching the Door, he referred to the nadir of the violence in Northern Ireland. A stage had been arrived at, Myers said, in which people had utterly different perceptions and interpretations of the facts happening around them, interpreting their own versions of events through the lens of their own sectarian side. Even words had become meaningless. “In the absence of an agreed reality,” Myers wrote, the province had gotten to the stage where truth was “whatever you’re having yourself.”- How America Can Recover from the Kavanaugh Confirmation Controversy, DOUGLAS MURRAY, October 2, 2018, https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-controversy-amercias-recovery/
There are no shortcuts in the Christian life--no simple remedies. - Martyn Lloyd-Jones
If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he
should arise sound the next morning; or a man today,
in despicable poverty, had assurance that he should
tomorrow arise a prince; would they be afraid to go
to bed? --Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
(In Isaac David Thomas' _The Golden Treasury
Of Puritan Quotations_ [1975], "Death")
If you want everyone to be happy, don’t be a pastor. Go sell ice cream.- Joshua D Jones
Tuesday, 2 October 2018
Quotes Oct 3
If you are not holy, you are not a Christian. - Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Most of us would never commit murder, but how often have we taken a neighbour into some dark alley of our thoughts & then torn him limb from limb with a desire for revenge over some petty quarrel. (W Gurnall)
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. P. G. Wodehouse
“This world is all the hell that ever a true Christian is to endure, and it is all the heaven that unbelievers shall ever enjoy.” - Jonathan Edwards
From the Word of God I gather that damnation is all of man, from top to bottom, and salvation is all of grace, from first to last.- Charles Spurgeon@CHSpurgeon
Most of us would never commit murder, but how often have we taken a neighbour into some dark alley of our thoughts & then torn him limb from limb with a desire for revenge over some petty quarrel. (W Gurnall)
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. P. G. Wodehouse
“This world is all the hell that ever a true Christian is to endure, and it is all the heaven that unbelievers shall ever enjoy.” - Jonathan Edwards
From the Word of God I gather that damnation is all of man, from top to bottom, and salvation is all of grace, from first to last.- Charles Spurgeon@CHSpurgeon
Monday, 1 October 2018
Quotes Oct 2
Christians are generally at their best, when they are in the furnace of affliction and being persecuted and tried. - Martyn Lloyd-Jones
I have pain, there is no arguing against sense; but I have peace, I have peace!.... Oh I thank him, I thank him! The Lord teach you to die!- Richard Baxter,on his deathbed, in John Legg, The footsteps of God, p.210
I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything . - William Carey in John Legg, The footsteps of God p.258
It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should, at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto Thee, O Lord, Holy Father, Almighty everlasting God. - Eucharistic prayer, Book of common prayer, 1662
A tsunami of information and misinformation washes up on our digital shores every single minute of the day. People simply no longer now who or what to trust. - Patrick Sookhdeo, The death of Western Christianity, p.65
I have pain, there is no arguing against sense; but I have peace, I have peace!.... Oh I thank him, I thank him! The Lord teach you to die!- Richard Baxter,on his deathbed, in John Legg, The footsteps of God, p.210
I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything . - William Carey in John Legg, The footsteps of God p.258
It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should, at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto Thee, O Lord, Holy Father, Almighty everlasting God. - Eucharistic prayer, Book of common prayer, 1662
A tsunami of information and misinformation washes up on our digital shores every single minute of the day. People simply no longer now who or what to trust. - Patrick Sookhdeo, The death of Western Christianity, p.65
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