Moral relativism can easily be a trick of an egotistical mind to silence the voice of conscience - Theodore Dalrymple, 'The Uses of Metaphysical Skepticism', in: In Praise of Prejudice. The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas, p. 6 (chapter 2).
Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his. --Billy Sunday (1862-1935)
If I wish to fly from Portland to North Carolina I can get there a number of ways. I can fly through
Denver, Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Salt Lake City, Dallas, or Atlanta. But if I want to arrive in Heaven, I cannot go through Buddha, Mohammed, or Moses. I can only go through Jesus. -- Randy Alcorn (1954- )
I was always a devourer of books that came in my way, ... My reading also was very miscellaneous ... In divinity, and for unction, illustration, excitement, and effect, I have much preferred the old authors to most of the moderns.- William Jay, Bath
Tuesday, 30 April 2019
Monday, 29 April 2019
Quotes 30 Apr
I don't know whether we'll have wristwatches on the New Earth, but if we do, we won't be looking at them during worship.--Randy Alcorn (1954- )
“I confess I would rather, much rather, spend all my time and days in making up and healing the breaches and schisms that are amongst Christians than one hour in justifying our divisions, even therein wherein, on the one side, they are capable of a fair defence. But who is sufficient for such an attempt? The closing of differences amongst Christians is like opening the book in the Revelation, — there is none able or worthy to do it, in heaven or in earth, but the Lamb: when he will put forth the greatness of his power for it, it shall be accomplished, and not before. In the meantime, a reconciliation amongst all Protestants is our duty, and practicable, and had perhaps ere this been in some forwardness of accomplishment had men rightly understood wherein such a reconciliation, according to the mind of God, doth consist. When men have laboured as much in the improvement of the principle of forbearance as they have done to subdue other men to their opinions, religion will have another appearance in the world.”-John Owen, Of Schism (Ch. 1)
Ships are 'she', not 'it' – and we will erode our history if we bow to the PC brigade on this ~ ADMIRAL LORD WEST
There is much to be said for trying to improve some disadvantaged people's lot. There is nothing to be said for trying to create heaven on earth.- Margaret Thatcher@MrsMThatcher
"to regret religion [...] is to regret our civilisation and its monuments, its achievements, and its legacy". - Dalrymple, Theodore. "What the New Atheists Don't See". City Journal. (Dalrymple is an atheist)
“I confess I would rather, much rather, spend all my time and days in making up and healing the breaches and schisms that are amongst Christians than one hour in justifying our divisions, even therein wherein, on the one side, they are capable of a fair defence. But who is sufficient for such an attempt? The closing of differences amongst Christians is like opening the book in the Revelation, — there is none able or worthy to do it, in heaven or in earth, but the Lamb: when he will put forth the greatness of his power for it, it shall be accomplished, and not before. In the meantime, a reconciliation amongst all Protestants is our duty, and practicable, and had perhaps ere this been in some forwardness of accomplishment had men rightly understood wherein such a reconciliation, according to the mind of God, doth consist. When men have laboured as much in the improvement of the principle of forbearance as they have done to subdue other men to their opinions, religion will have another appearance in the world.”-John Owen, Of Schism (Ch. 1)
Ships are 'she', not 'it' – and we will erode our history if we bow to the PC brigade on this ~ ADMIRAL LORD WEST
There is much to be said for trying to improve some disadvantaged people's lot. There is nothing to be said for trying to create heaven on earth.- Margaret Thatcher@MrsMThatcher
"to regret religion [...] is to regret our civilisation and its monuments, its achievements, and its legacy". - Dalrymple, Theodore. "What the New Atheists Don't See". City Journal. (Dalrymple is an atheist)
Sunday, 28 April 2019
Quotes 29 Apr
Spiritual light is sweeter and more ravishing than the light of the sun. To the mind that understands it, the word of God discovers the glorious excellency of God, the beauty of Christ and the glory of the way of salvation. -Jonathan Edwards
"As men with no hands should not pursue carpentry, men who can't preach should not seek the ministry." - A wise old elder, from Gavin Beers
Two biblical principles must be practiced simultaneously, at each step of the way, if we are to be really Bible-believing Christians. One is the principle of the practice of the purity of the visible church. The other is the principle of an observable love among all true Christians.- Francis A. Schaeffer, 1980 “Consultation on Presbyterian Alternatives” sponsored by the Presbyterian Church in America.
"As men with no hands should not pursue carpentry, men who can't preach should not seek the ministry." - A wise old elder, from Gavin Beers
Two biblical principles must be practiced simultaneously, at each step of the way, if we are to be really Bible-believing Christians. One is the principle of the practice of the purity of the visible church. The other is the principle of an observable love among all true Christians.- Francis A. Schaeffer, 1980 “Consultation on Presbyterian Alternatives” sponsored by the Presbyterian Church in America.
Friday, 26 April 2019
Quotes 27 Apr
O most happy time, wherein poverty, need, pining in prison, fetters, chains, stock, rebukes, reviling, the dens and caves of the wilderness, banishments, gallows, fires and the cruelty of tyrants, are again restored to the church! - John Scory, An Epistle, Emden, 1555 in Peter Marshall, Heretics and Believers,p. p.395 (an exile writing in the time of Bloody Mary)
Calvin had described Henry VIII's headship as 'blasphemy'. = Peter Marshall, Heretics and Believers,p. p.430
All scripture seems to sign the title of head of Church to Chris alone. - Thomas Sampson, better to Peter Martyr, Dec 1558 quoted in Peter Marshall, Heretics and Believers,p.430
Calvin had described Henry VIII's headship as 'blasphemy'. = Peter Marshall, Heretics and Believers,p. p.430
All scripture seems to sign the title of head of Church to Chris alone. - Thomas Sampson, better to Peter Martyr, Dec 1558 quoted in Peter Marshall, Heretics and Believers,p.430
Thursday, 25 April 2019
Quotes 26 Apr
Now is the time of trial.to see whether we fear more God or man. - John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester, Letter from prison,1555, before he was burned at the stake quoted in, Peter Marshall, Heretics and Believers, p.123
Erasmus told Luther's collaborator, Philip Melanchthon that Cardinal Wolsey, 'a supporter of liberal studies', could find in Luther nothing to take offence at - 'except his denial that the primacy of the supremer pontiff is part to the divine law'.- Peter Marshall, Heretics and Believers, p.123
Freddie Trueman was not too impressed with David(Sheppard)'s slip catching prowess, and after seeing chance put down he strolled over and mutters, 'I think, Reverend, that when you, of all people, put yer 'ands together, you'd met it stick.'- Dickie Bird, Dickie Bird's Britain, p.94
Erasmus told Luther's collaborator, Philip Melanchthon that Cardinal Wolsey, 'a supporter of liberal studies', could find in Luther nothing to take offence at - 'except his denial that the primacy of the supremer pontiff is part to the divine law'.- Peter Marshall, Heretics and Believers, p.123
Freddie Trueman was not too impressed with David(Sheppard)'s slip catching prowess, and after seeing chance put down he strolled over and mutters, 'I think, Reverend, that when you, of all people, put yer 'ands together, you'd met it stick.'- Dickie Bird, Dickie Bird's Britain, p.94
Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life
It's not what we don't know that gets us into trouble. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so. -Mark Twain quoted in Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p12
We cannot navigate without something to aim and, while we are in this world we must always navigate.-Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p92
What you aim at determines what you see.--Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p96
Life doesn't have the problem; you do. -Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p99
The tendency for modern people to think, when confronted with Jehovah. 'I would never believe in a God like that.'With the old Testament god doesn't much care what modern people think. He often and didn't care what old Testament people thought either.- -Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p104
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today. --Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p111
Parents should come in pairs.-Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p142
Solzhenitsyn's writing utterly and finally demolished the intellectual credibility of communism as ideology or society, - Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p155
It is the greatest temptation of the rational faculty to glorify its own capacity and its own productions and to claim that in the face of its theories, nothing transcendent or outside its domain need exist. - -Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life p.218
Life is suffering. That's clear.There is no more basic, irrefutable truth, - - Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p 161
The Word that produced order from Chaos sacrifices everything, even itself to God. That single sentence, wise beyond comprehension, sums up Christianity, - Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life, (surely Himself not itself- GJW)
Things fall apart. This is one of the great discoveries of humanity. -Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p 228
Your inaction, inertia and cynicism removes fro the word that part of you that could learn to quell suffering and make peace.. -Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p 367
At the beginning of time ... the Word of God transformed chaos into Being through the act of speech. We also transform chaos into Being through speech. - Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p 230
Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't.Things fall apart. This is one of the great discoveries of humanity. -Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p 228
We cannot navigate without something to aim and, while we are in this world we must always navigate.-Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p92
What you aim at determines what you see.--Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p96
Life doesn't have the problem; you do. -Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p99
The tendency for modern people to think, when confronted with Jehovah. 'I would never believe in a God like that.'With the old Testament god doesn't much care what modern people think. He often and didn't care what old Testament people thought either.- -Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p104
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today. --Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p111
Parents should come in pairs.-Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p142
Solzhenitsyn's writing utterly and finally demolished the intellectual credibility of communism as ideology or society, - Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p155
It is the greatest temptation of the rational faculty to glorify its own capacity and its own productions and to claim that in the face of its theories, nothing transcendent or outside its domain need exist. - -Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life p.218
Life is suffering. That's clear.There is no more basic, irrefutable truth, - - Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p 161
The Word that produced order from Chaos sacrifices everything, even itself to God. That single sentence, wise beyond comprehension, sums up Christianity, - Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life, (surely Himself not itself- GJW)
Things fall apart. This is one of the great discoveries of humanity. -Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p 228
Your inaction, inertia and cynicism removes fro the word that part of you that could learn to quell suffering and make peace.. -Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p 367
At the beginning of time ... the Word of God transformed chaos into Being through the act of speech. We also transform chaos into Being through speech. - Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p 230
Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't.Things fall apart. This is one of the great discoveries of humanity. -Jordan B Peterson, 12 Rules for Life,p 228
Quotes 25 Apr
If you wish you had a better pastor, pray for the pastor you have now.-
Sam Allberry@SamAllberry
Is God the same forever both in himself and in his dealings with his children? Has God before used his power for their protection, his wisdom for their direction and his mercy for their consolation? Then he will do the same for us. - John Dod 1549-1645
“Faith and fear go hand in hand. Faith keeps the heart cheerful, fear keeps the heart serious. Faith keeps the heart from sinking in despair, fear keeps it from floating in presumption.”- Thomas Watson@TheThomasWatson
Sam Allberry@SamAllberry
Is God the same forever both in himself and in his dealings with his children? Has God before used his power for their protection, his wisdom for their direction and his mercy for their consolation? Then he will do the same for us. - John Dod 1549-1645
“Faith and fear go hand in hand. Faith keeps the heart cheerful, fear keeps the heart serious. Faith keeps the heart from sinking in despair, fear keeps it from floating in presumption.”- Thomas Watson@TheThomasWatson
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