Quotes Jun 1st

...it being as difficult or impossible for a sub-Saharan African to deny the power of magic as for an inhabitant of the Arabian peninsula deny the power of Allah.  - Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture What's Left of It, p.121

The first principle (of overcoming poverty)is that in order to move up, the poor must not only work, they must work harder than the classes above the.  - George Gilder, Wealth and Poverty, quoted in E Calvin Beisner, Prosperity and Poverty

... it is the Christian world which finally gave birth in a clear articulate fashion to the experimental method of science itself. - Len Eisley, Darwin's Century quoted in - THE SOUL OF SCIENCE by PEARCEY & THAXTON, p1

Far be it from me to confine the Almighty to one way of acting, or say, that all undergo an equal degree of conviction: no, there is a holy variety in God's methods of calling home his elect.- George Whitefield@WhitefieldG

It is not good for man to be alone, but sometimes it helps. –Groucho Marx

Quotes 31 May

As Sir Roy Welensky, the prime minister of the ill fated and short lived Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, once described himself, he was,'half Polish, has Jewish, one hundred per cent British.' - Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture What's Left of It, p.311

... the state was the means by which everyone seeks to live at everyone else's expense. - Frederic Bastiat quoted in Theodore Dalrymple, The Knife Went In, p216

I confess that I wouldn't want 'free-will' even if it were given to me! If my salvation were left to em I would be no match for all the dangers, difficulties and devils that I have to fight... my salvation is in God's hands and not my own.- Martin Luther, Grace Essentials, The Bondage of the Will, p 32

Arminianism is very close to the teaching of Rome about salvation, for both teach that God is unable to save a sinner without his co-operation! - Clifford Pond in Grace Essentials, The Bondage of the Will, p.82

Quotes 30 May

The law of unintended consequences is stronger than the most absolute power. - Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture What's Left of It, p.311

John only refers to himself in his own gospel as “the disciple whom Jesus loves.”
We tend to think identity comes from who we love. John sees it as coming from being loved by Christ. That is ultimately who he is.- Sam Allberry

I am glad you have made Christ your 'one thing.' Many painfully toil in seeking many things, and their many things are nothing. Set yourself apart for Christ alone. -Samuel Rutherford@SR_SDG

“The first office of justice is to keep one man from doing harm to another,” - Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Officiis  (On Duties/Obligations)

But there's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.
     --Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
      _Irish Melodies_ [1807-1835],
      "Love's Young Dream," Stanza 1

Quotes May 29

The fanatics and the bombers do not represent a resurgence of unreformed, fundamentalist Islam, but its death rattle. - Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture What's Left of It, p.295

We often pray best, when we can speak least. There are times when the heart is too big to speak: and the spirit itself maketh intercession for the saints, and that too according to the will of God, with groanings that cannot be uttered.- George Whitefield@WhitefieldG

The type of thinking down today as scientific, with its emphasis upon experiment and mathematical formulation, arose in one culture - Western Europe - and in no other. - THE SOUL OF SCIENCE by PEARCEY & THAXTON, p17

When once the light of Divine Providence has
illumined the believer's soul, he is relieved and
set free, not only from the extreme fear and
anxiety which formerly oppressed him, but
from all care.
For as he justly shudders at the idea of chance,
so he can confidently commit himself to God.
--John Calvin (1509-1564)
_Institutes Of The Christian Religion_ [1536]

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us,
unless He has a specific plan by which great
blessing can come out of the difficulty.
     --Peter Marshall (1902-1949)
      (In George Sweeting's
      _Who Said That?_ [1995], "Adversity")

Quotes May 27

In the psyho-therapeutic worldview to which all good liberals subscribe, there is no evil, only victimhood. - Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture What's Left of It, p.260

I confess to you, that if I can but live and die serving and honouring the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by Cannibals or by worms.—John G. Paton

If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't
want to go there.
     --Martin Luther (1483-1546)

Mirth is God's medicine.  Everybody ought to bathe
in it.  Grim care, moroseness, anxiety--all this rust of
life--ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.
     --Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)

Quotes May 25

Transsexuals, in my experience, exude a triumphalist moral superiority, conscious of having forced the world to accept what it previously deemed unacceptable. - Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture What's Left of It, p.249

 “the further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it”. - Orwell

1. Never settle, never surrender.
2. Counter-attack, counter-sue immediately.
3. No matter what happens, no matter how deeply into the muck you get, claim victory and never admit defeat.
Roy Cohn's three principle he taught to Donald Trump whose father hired Cohn to mentor Donald.

There are moments when everything goes well;
don't be frightened, it won't last.
     --Jules Renard (1864-1910)
      _Journal_ [1925]

Quoted May 24

...in a debate in the House of Lords ... one of the noble lords was reported to have replies to the question whether he would mind if his daughter read Lady Chatterley's Lover that he wouldn't mind in the least, but he would mind very much if his gamekeeper read it. - Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture What's Left of It, p.57

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”-  Orwell

"Always reality asserts itself, to the confusion of those who hold false principles. They must then shout those false principles louder and louder." -- Marion Montgomery, THE TRUTH OF THINGS

In an interesting example of changing language in order to promote a political agenda, the editor of the Guardian has just ‘suggested’ (you can guess what happens to employees who beg to differ) that Guardian journalists adopt the following practices:
Use climate emergency, crisis or breakdown instead of climate change
Use global heating instead of global warming
Use wildlife instead of bio-diversity (when appropriate)
Use fish populations instead of fish stocks
Use climate science denier or climate denier instead of climate sceptic.
- Mike17