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Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. -- Bernard M. Baruch. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.
Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories
instead of theories to suit facts. People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts. Robert Keith Leavitt Facts do not "speak for themselves." They speak for or
against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or
visions are mere isolated curiosities.
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure. A man may make many mistakes, but is not a failure until he starts blaming someone else for them. You have not really failed or been defeated unless you believe it. I entered the Failure of the Year competition and came in last. They gave me the trophy and then took it away. Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. --Roger Babson (1875-1967) There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit. - Craig Breedlove Nothing is ever a complete failure; it can always serve as a bad example. Carlson's Consolation (from Murphy's Laws) I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. -- Bill Cosby When you subsidise poverty and failure, you get more of both.-- James Dale Davidson The most important of my discoveries have been suggested
to me by my failures. Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. --George Eliot [Marian Evans Cross] (1819-1880) _Middlemarch_ [1871], Book 2, Chapter 22 Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.... Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882) The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success. - B. C. Forbes, 1880 - 1954 Failure is success if we learn from it.-- Malcolm S. Forbes Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I'm a failure. - Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, 1906 - 1992 Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.--Homer (c. 700 BC)_The Odyssey_, Book XV, Line 400 Every man has something to do which he neglects; every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat. -- Samuel Johnson: Idler #43 Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. - Charles F. Kettering, 1876 - 1958 Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. George R. Kirkpatrick There is a deep peace that grows out of illness and loneliness and a sense of failure. God cannot get close when everything is delightful. He seems to need these darker hours, these empty-hearted hours, to mean the most to people.--Frank C. Laubach Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call. --Henry P Liddon The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. - Abraham Lincoln My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. - Abraham Lincoln, 1809 - 1865 Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing. -George Lorimer (1867-1937) Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You
may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing
that we call " failure" is not the falling down, but the
staying down. Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. - William Saroyan, 1908 - 1981 What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? - Robert Schuller Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I
gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take
more than one night." You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. - Beverly Sills I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. - Earl Warren, 1891 - 1974 Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, but faith looks up. I wish I could leave you my most cherished possession -- my faith in Jesus Christ. When you have come to the edge I believe in the sun, even when it doesn't shine. He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church
he currently did not attend was Catholic. Credo ut intelligam (Anselm) I had a number of strong religious beliefs but little faith in God.There is a distinction between *belief* in a set of propositions and a *faith* which enables us to put our trust in them. ~Karen Armstrong Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. --. Augustine Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not
to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe that
thou mayest understand. Trust the past to God's mercy, the present to God's love and the future to God's providence. -- Augustine Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ;
faith is also a commitment to the demands of Christ. The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in
times of trouble. Preach faith until you have it.-- Peter Bohler (1712-1775) in The Lion Christian Quotation Collection, 1997 Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good, in order to induce God to love and pardon; and the calm reception of the truth so long rejected, that God is not waiting for any such inducements, but loves and pardons of His own goodwill, and is showing that goodwill to any sinner who will come to Him on such a footing, casting away his own poor performances or goodnesses, and relying implicitly upon the free love of Him who so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son. ... Horatius Bonar (1808-1889), "The Everlasting Righteousness" Only he who believes is obedient. Only he who is obedient, believes. Bonhoeffer There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method. - Max Born (1882-1970) "Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance," Appendix One. I hear men praying everywhere for more faith, but when I listen to them carefully, and get to the real heart of their prayer, very often it is not more faith at all that they are wanting, but a change from faith to sight. Faith says not, "I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it," but, "God sent it, and so it must be good for me." Faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely.... Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.- Thomas Brooks Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.- Augustine If you would have a clear evidence that that little love, that little faith, that little zeal, you have is true, then live up to that love, live up to that faith, live up to that zeal that you have; and this will evidence beyond all contradiction. THOMAS BROOKS We often don't always know why things happen to us and others in a given situation or cirumstance but we know why we trust God who does know why. DAVE BROWN Flee formulae, bear with the weak. While all faith is placed in Christ, the thing is safe. It is not given for all to see the same thing at the same time. --Martin Bucer (1491-1551) You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. Samuel Butler There is no other method of living piously and justly, than that of depending upon God. Calvin on Gen 17:1. Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit. John Calvin (1509-1564) The weakest measure of faith is to be accepted in those who desire to be admitted into the church, because weak Christians, if sincere, have the essence of the faith, repentance, and holiness which are required in church members. Moreover, these weak Christians have most need of the church's ordinances for the confirmation of their faith and their growth in grace.-- Cambridge Platform, 10:3. I began revolution with 82 men. If I had [to] do it again, I'd do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action. Fidel Castro (1927-____) N: In "New York Times," 22 Apr. 1959. Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. ~Oswald Chambers 1874-1917 Man is what he believes. Anton Chekhov A man who has faith must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. --G. K. Chesterton, _Heretics_, 1905 The less you feel and the more firmly you believe, the more praiseworthy is your faith and the more it will be esteemed and appreciated; for real faith is much more than a mere opinion of man. In it we have true knowledge: in truth, we lack nothing save true faith.... Meister Eckhart (1260?-1327?) Just as I am, without one plea Faith, without trouble or fighting, is a suspicious faith; for true faith is a fighting, wrestling faith. RALPH ERSKINE Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. ~ Frank L. Gaines Alongside getting faith out of a heart that is utterly hostile and unbelieving, making a silk purse out of a sow's ear or getting blood from a turnip is child's play. JOHN GERTSNER Faith is like breath in an infant's lungs. Breath is not the cause of life; but where there is no breath, there is no life. Even so, faith is not the cause of life, but where there is no faith, there is no spiritual life. JOHN GILL In religion, we are not asked to make up our minds, we are asked to make up our lives... We may refuse to make up our minds, but our lives get made up, one way or the other... Whatever we believe with our minds, our lives are committed either to God's way or to the God-denying way, and what matters in religion is the act of commitment.... A. Leonard Griffith (1920- ), Barriers to Christian Belief [1962] The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God. WILLIAM GURNALL The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God. Charles Hodge When we inculcate that faith ought to be certain and secure, we conceive not of a certainty attended with no doubt, or of a security interrupted by no anxiety; but we rather affirm, that believers have a perpetual conflict with their own diffidence, and are far from placing their consciences in a placid calm never disturbed by any storms. Yet, on the other hand, we deny, however they may be afflicted, that they ever fall and depart from that certain confidence which they have conceived in the divine mercy. ... Charles Hodge (1797-1878), Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans Some things have to be believed to be seen.-Ralph Hodgson More important than any belief a man holds is the way he holds it. --Sidney Hook The axioms of reason are non-demonstrable assumptions. Why should faith not be granted the same privilege? The denial of the truths of faith is, in the last analysis, no less a faith than faith itself, for it rests on personal assumptions which are apart from scientific necessity. In other words, as the truth of reason carries its own evidence, so also with faith. To the mind to whom the axioms of reason are not self-evident, they cannot be proven. So also in the case of faith: for the mind that is not enlightened by faith, the evidence of faith is ridiculous. But for the man whose eyes have been enlightened by the Spirit, faith has its proper evidence, though different from that of reason. The only sufficient ground of faith is the authority of God Himself as he addresses me in His Word. Paul K. Jewett, Emil Brunner's Concept of Revelation Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.-- Julius Caesar Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not
loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of
God. O Lord, how happy should we be, How far from this our daily life Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.... Martin Luther King, Jr. Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up. This is true Christian resignation to God, which requires no more to the support of it than such a plain assurance of the goodness of God as Abraham had of His veracity. And if you ask yourself what greater reason Abraham had to depend upon the Divine veracity than you have to depend upon the Divine goodness, you will find that none can be given. ... William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life [1728] Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it. C.S.Lewis, MereChristianity It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most... It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time.'-- C.S. Lewis Now Faith...is the art of holding on to things your
reason 'has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
For moods will change, whatever view your reason takes. I
know that by experience. Now that I am a Christian I do have
moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but
when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity
looked terribly probable. This rebellion of your moods
against your real self is going to come anyway. That is why
Faith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your
moods "where they get off," you can never be either a sound
Christian or even a sound atheist, but just a creature
dithering to and fro, with its beliefs really dependent on
the weather and the state of its digestion. Consequently one
must train the habit of Faith. With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another. G. C. Lichtenberg Faith is the bird that sings while it is yet dark. MAX LUCADO Your eyes look in the mirror and see a sinner, a failure, a promise-breaker. But by faith you look in the mirror and see a robed prodigal bearing the ring of grace on your fingers the kiss of your Father on your face . -- Max Lucado Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. - Martin Luther Faith is not what some people think it is. Their human dream is a delusion. Because they observe that faith is not followed by good works or a better life, they fall into error, even though they speak and hear much about faith. ``Faith is not enough,'' they say, ``You must do good works, you must be pious to be saved.'' They think that, when you hear the gospel, you start working, creating by your own strength a thankful heart which says, ``I believe.'' That is what they think true faith is. But, because this is a human idea, a dream, the heart never learns anything from it, so it does nothing and reform doesn't come from this `faith,' either. Instead, faith is God's work in us, that changes us and gives new birth from God. (John 1:13). It kills the Old Adam and makes us completely different people. It changes our hearts, our spirits, our thoughts and all our powers. It brings the Holy Spirit with it. Yes, it is a living, creative, active and powerful thing, this faith. Faith cannot help doing good works constantly. It doesn't stop to ask if good works ought to be done, but before anyone asks, it already has done them and continues to do them without ceasing. Anyone who does not do good works in this manner is an unbeliever. He stumbles around and looks for faith and good works, even though he does not know what faith or good works are. Yet he gossips and chatters about faith and good works with many words. Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it. Such confidence and knowledge of God's grace makes you happy, joyful and bold in your relationship to God and all creatures. The Holy Spirit makes this happen through faith. Because of it, you freely, willingly and joyfully do good to everyone, serve everyone, suffer all kinds of things, love and praise the God who has shown you such grace. Thus, it is just as impossible to separate faith and works as it is to separate heat and light from fire! Therefore, watch out for your own false ideas and guard against good-for-nothing gossips, who think they're smart enough to define faith and works, but really are the greatest of fools. Ask God to work faith in you, or you will remain forever without faith, no matter what you wish, say or can do. MARTIN LUTHER, from "An Introduction to St. Paul's Letter to the Romans The whole being of any Christian is Faith and Love...
Faith brings the man to God, love brings him to men . If God promises something, then faith must fight a long and bitter fight, for reason or the flesh judges that God's promises are impossible. Therefore faith must battle against reason and its doubts............. Faith is something that is busy, powerful and creative, though properly speaking, it is essentially an enduring than a doing. It changes the mind and heart. While reason holds to what is present, faith apprehends the things that are not seen. Contrary to reason, faith regards the invisible things as already materialized. This explains why faith, unlike hearing is not found in many, for only few believe, while the great majority cling to the things that are present and can be felt and handled rather than to the Word. ~ Martin Luther, The Promises Faith unites the soul with Christ as a bride is united with her bridegroom. As Paul teaches us, Christ and the soul become one flesh by this mystery (Eph 5:31-32). And if they are one flesh, and if marriage is for real - indeed, it is the most perfect of all marriages, and human marriages are poor examples of this one true marriage - then it follows that everything that they have is held in common, whether good or evil. So the believer can boast of and glory of whatever Christ possesses, as though it were his or her own; and whatever the believer has, Christ claims as his own. Let us see how this works out, and see how it benefits us. Christ is full of grace, life and salvation. The human soul is full of sins, eath and damnation. Now let faith come between them. Sins, death and damnation will be Christ's. And grace, life and salvation will be the believer's. MARTIN LUTHER We are justified propter Christum per fidem - that is, on acount of Christ, through faith. The basis of God's decision to place us in right relationship with Him lies in Christ Himself. We are justified on account of His obedience during His lifetime and His death upon the cross. It is because of Him, and nor because of anything we have done or will do, that we are made right with God. But the means by which we are justified is faith. Faith is like a channel through which the benefits of Christ flow to us...both the external foundation and the internal means of appropriation of justification are God-given. Faith is not something we can achieve; it is something achieved within us by God. ALISTER McGRATH Feeling always seeks something in itself; faith keeps itself occupied with who Jesus is. Do not forget that the faith of which God's Word speaks so much stands not only in opposition to works but also in opposition to feelings, and therefore for a pure life of faith you must cease to seek your salvation not only in works but also in feelings. Let faith always speak against feeling. When feeling says "In myself I am sinful, I am dark, I am weak, I am poor, I am sad", let faith say, "In Christ I am holy, I am light, I am strong, I am rich, I am joyful". - Andrew Murray Now I can do no more. We must trust to the great disposer
of all events, and to the justice of our cause. This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus. John Newton Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt. John Henry Newman Men love to trust God (as they profess) for what they have in their hands, in possession, or what lies in an easy view; place their desires afar off, carry their accomplishment behind the clouds out of their sight, interpose difficulties and perplexities -- their hearts are instantly sick. They cannot wait for God; they do not trust Him, nor ever did. Would you have the presence of God with you? Learn to wait quietly for the salvation you expect from Him. John Owen (1616-1683) We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works. John Owen (1616-1683) . ...the essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus. JOHN PIPER God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him....the capacity to taste a thing must precede our desire for its sweetness...the chief end of man is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever and of living by faith in future grace...the essence of faith is being satisfied with all God is for us in Jesus. JOHN PIPER - Future Grace Faith, the final frontier. Faith, without trouble or fighting, is a suspicious faith; for true faith is a fighting, wrestling faith. RALPH ERSKINE I can let Christ grip me; but I cannot grip him. I love to sit on Christ's knee; but I cannot set my feet to the ground, for afflictions bring the cramp upon my faith. All I now do, is, to hold out a lame faith to Christ, like a beggar holding out a stump, instead of an arm or leg; and cry, Lord Jesus, work a miracle. ... Samuel Rutherford, letter [1637] Just as the only basis for the removal of our guilt is the finished work of Christ upon the cross in history, plus nothing, so the only instrument for accepting that finished work of Christ upon the cross is faith. This is not faith in the twentieth-century or Kierkegaardian concept of faith as a jump in the dark --not a solution on the basis of faith in faith. It is believing the specific promises of God; no longer turning our backs on them, no longer calling God a liar, but raising the empty hands of faith and accepting that finished work of Christ as it was fulfilled in history upon the cross. The Bible says that at that moment we pass from death to life, from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of God's dear Son. We become, inividually, children of God. We are children of God from that time on. I repeat, there is no way to begin the true Christian life except through the door of spiritual birth, any more than there is another way to begin physical life except through the door of physical birth. F A Schaeffer, True Spirituality, Chapter 1 We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. ~GBS The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. R. C. SPROUL Faith untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials. Faith never prospers so well as when all things are against her: tempests are her trainers, and lightnings are her illuminators. When a calm reigns on the sea, spread the sails as you will, the ship moves not to its harbour; for on a slumbering ocean the keel sleeps too. Let the winds rush howling forth, and let the waters lift up themselves, then, though the vessel may rock, and her deck may be washed with waves, and her mast may creak under the pressure of the full and swelling sail, it is then that she makes headway towards her desired haven. No faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs in adversity. Tried faith brings experience. Faith increases in solidity, assurance, and intensity, the more it is exercised with tribulation. Faith is precious, and its trial is precious too. Charles Spurgeon, "Morning and Evening Daily Readings" Who has ever seen an idea? Who has ever seen love? Who has ever seen faith? The real things in the world are the invisible spiritual realities. Is it so difficult then, to believe in God? Charles Templeton Life Looks Up 'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Mister Harry-- every man of every nation has done that-- 'tis the living up to it that is difficult, as I know to my cost. --W. M. Thackeray, Henry Esmond Everybody should believe in something....I believe I'll go fishing. -- Thoreau Everbody should believe in something....I believe I'll have another beer. Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. . . . How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?"-- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America We believe, but we do not know how to enjoy what we believe. --Henri de Tourville (1842-1903) Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God... a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God. --A. W. Tozer True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie. It is enough that God has said it. --A. W. Tozer Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves -- blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.... A. W. Tozer (1897-1963), The Pursuit of God Faith is not belief without proof but trust without reservation.--D. Elton Trueblood In actual life every great enterprise begins with and
takes its first forward step in faith. It is never on account of its formal nature as a psychic act that faith is conceived in Scripture to be saving...It is not, strictly speaking, even faith in Christ that saves, but Christ that saves through faith. The saving power resides exclusively, not in the act of faith or the attitude of faith or nature of faith, but in the object of faith. B. B. WARFIELD Faith lives in a broken heart. 'He cried out with tears, Lord, I believe.' True faith is always in a heart bruised for sin. They, therefore, whose hearts were never touched for sin, have no faith. If a physician should tell us there was a herb that would help us against all infections, but it always grows in a watery place; if we should see a herb like it in colour, leaf, smell, blossom, but growing upon a rock, we should conclude that it was the wrong herb. So saving faith always grows in a heart humbled for sin, in a weeping eye and a tearful conscience. - THOMAS WATSON Immediately it stuck into my mind, "Leave off preaching. How can you preach to others, who have not faith yourself?" I asked Boehler, whether he thought I should leave it off or not. He answered "By no means." I asked, "But what can I preach?" He said, "Preach faith till you have it; and then, because you have it, you will preach faith." -- John Wesley, Journal, 4 Mar 1738 Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ and his
righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification; yet
is it not alone in the person justified, but is ever
accompanied with all the saving graces, and is no dead
faith, but worketh by love. Faith is not a feeling. It is not even the feeling that something is going to happen in answer to our prayers. Faith may be easier to exercise when such feelings are present. Nevertheless, feelings of that sort never constitute faith. Faith is a response on our part, the obedient response of our wills to who God is and what He says.-- John White
...the Lord rewards faithfulness above fruitfulness, which puts us all on the same footing, whether famous for our effectiveness or unknown in our faithfulness. JOHN PIPER
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A healthy family is sacred territory. Family ties are precious things Family ties are cherished things Family ties are treasured things Our little ones, whom you so often recommend to my care and instruction, shall not be deficient in virtue or probity, if the precepts of a mother have their desired effect; but they would be doubly enforced, could they be indulged with the example of a father alternately before them. I often point them to their sire, -----"engaged in a corrupted state, Wrestling with vice and faction." -- Abigail Adams The family is the school of duties... founded on love. Felix Adler Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. --Anthony Brandt A happy family is but an earlier heaven. John Bowring The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. George Carlin The men and women who, for good reasons and bad, revolt against the family, are, for good reasons and bad, simply revolting against mankind. Aunt Elizabeth is unreasonable, like mankind. Papa is excitable, like mankind. Our youngest brother is mischievous, like mankind. Grandpapa is stupid, like the world; he is old, like the world.... The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people inside. And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born. -- G.K.C. That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers. -- Charles Chincholles There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained.---Winston Churchill State power is the messianic force through which the Left intends to implement its social redemption, and the family is the last bulkwark against the power of the state......the family is the enemy of progress and profressives everywhere. - Peter Collier and David Horowitz, "It's a War Stupid!", Heterodoxy, Nov 1996 The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. Confucius It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government, our institutions, our schools...indeed, our way of life are dependent on healthy marriages and loyalty to the vulnerable little children around our feet. James C. Dobson People talk about "dysfunctional" families; I've never seen any other kind. -- Sue Grafton The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.--Theodore Hesburgh There is no synthetic replacement for a decent home life. Our high crime rate, particularly among juveniles, is directly traceable to a breakdown in moral fiber--to the disintegration of home and family life. Religion and home life are supplementary. Each strengthens the other. It is seldom that a solid and wholesome home life can be found in the absence of religious inspiration. --J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) _Christian Herald_ I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned how to dance, waiting in line for the bathroom. -- Bob Hope As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. John Paul II, 1986 The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family. Paul Johnson The great high of winning Wimbledon lasts for about a week. You go down in the record book, but you don't have anything tangible to hold on to. But having a baby -- there isn't any comparison. Chris Evert Lloyd (1954-____) The devil has a great spite at Christ's kingdom and he knows no better way to crush it than by the perversion of youth, and family duties. He strikes at all church duties but at family duties with more success because the practice is not so seriously and conscientiously regarded as it should be, and neglecting it is not liable to be noticed or rebuked.-- Thomas Manton Religion was established first in families and there the devil seeks to crush it.The family is the training ground for both the Church and the State and if children are not well-principled there, all will fail. The fathers of families have as truly the charge of the souls in those families, as pastors have of the churches.-- Thomas Manton All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united. Margaret of Youville The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace. -- Daniel P Moynihan From the wild Irish slums of the 19th century Eastern seaboard to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles, there is one unmistakable lesson in American history: a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future -- that community asks for and gets chaos. Daniel Patrick Moynihan: Article in a Jesuit magazine at the time of publication of his report on the black family (mid-60s) Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible--the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nuturing family. --Virginia Satir Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.-George Bernard Shaw Remember as far as anyone knows, we're a nice normal family. ---Homer Simpson [on Spurgeon's college not having residential
accommodations] The residence of a number of young men
in one house encourages andnecessarily generates levity;
their separation from common social life is a serious
injury, and tends to unfit them for the wear and tear of
future work among ordinary mortals. When a young man resides
in a Christian family, not only is he under the most
vigilant oversight, but he never ceases to be one of the
people. You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.Desmond Tutu (1931-____)Address at enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, 7 Sep 1986. Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life. Denzel Washington (1954-____) Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die. -- Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest"
We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender,whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.~Robert Hutchins Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.~Will Rogers Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.~George Santayana The gods mercifully gave mankind this little moment of peace between the religious fanaticisms of the past and the fanaticisms of class and race that were speedily to arise and dominate time to come. --G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History, p. 354. And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed ~ Oscar Wilde The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity ~ Oscar Wilde
Fantasy is literature for teenagers. V. S. Naipaul (1932-____) In "W.O.W. - Writers on Writing," by Jon Winokur, 1990.
What is the difference between a Nazi and a Dog? The Nazi lifts his arm! ---Victor Borge, 1930s Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing above the state. -- Mussolini
Fashion: the search for a new absurdity. -- Natalie Barney, _Little Mistresses_ Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Exuberance is better than taste.-- Flaubert Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. -- Henry Thoreau (Walden, 1854) It is better to be old-fashioned and right than to be up-to-date and wrong. Tiorio (?) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer. John Calvin An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons -- marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning. C S Lewis Mere Christianity Leanness of body and soul may go together. John Owen
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. You hear it said that fathers want their sons to be what they feel they cannot themselves be, but I tell you it also works the other way. A boy wants something very special from his father. Sherwood Anderson The similarities between me and my father are different. --Dale Berra (Yogi Berra's son) Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children. ~Cindy Garner There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence. --Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)_Boswell's Life of Johnson_ [July 14, 1763] My father's a quiet and stable man. Ian Paisley Jnr The Times Magazine 18.1.97
Riches and strength lift up the heart, but the fear of the Lord is better than both. There is no loss in the fear of the Lord, and with it there is no need to seek for help. Sirach 40:26 No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.--Edmund Burke (1729-1797)_A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful_ [1756] But now, this is what the LORD says-- he who created you,
O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have
redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and
when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over
you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned;
the flames will not set you ablaze. For I am the LORD, your
God, the Holy One of Israel, your Saviour. What then are we afraid of? Can we have too much of God? Is it a misfortune to be freed from the heavy yoke of the world, and to bear the light burden of Jesus Christ? Do we fear to be too happy, too much delivered from ourselves, from the caprices of our pride, the violence of our passions, and the tyranny of this deceitful world? ... FranÁois FÈnelon (1651-1715) There is no greater recipe for disaster than a persistent refusal to face unwelcome facts. Roy Jenkins. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing. - John Lennon, 1940 - 1980 Serve the Lord with fear, and exult with trembling" (Ps.2:11). Let somebody bring this into harmony for me: exult and fear! My son Hans can do it in relation to me, but I can't do it in relation to God. When I'm writing or doing something else, my Hans sings a little tune for me. If he becomes too noisy and I rebuke him a little for it, he continues to sing but does it more privately and with a certain awe and uneasiness. This is what God wishes: that we be always cheerful, but with reverence.-- Luther's Tabletalk (from No. 148) As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where the fear of God is wanting, there the country will come to ruin, unless it be sustained the fear of the prince, which temporarily supply the want of religion. Niccolo Machiavelli And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. --Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) _The Prince_ [1513], Chapter 8 Only he who can say, 'The Lord is the strength of my life' can say, 'Of whom shall I be afraid?' - Alexander MacLaren It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.... John Owen (1616-1683) We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. -Plato So first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear. . .is fear itself. . .nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.- Franklin Delano Roosevelt The only known cure for fear is faith.--Lena Kellogg Sadler (1875-1939) To one who is afraid, everything rustles. -- Sophocles Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.... Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), (1835-1910)
Dom't rely on feelings. Remember Isaac. Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. Samuel Adams (1722-1803) Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the ache of his finger more sensibly than the health of his whole body; yet he knows that the ache of a finger is nothing so much as the health of the whole body. - THOMAS ADAMS The lexicon of pussyfooting is familiar. On its title page should appear the motto: `Never say, "I think," which is obsolete; always say, "I feel," as in, "I feel that the Treasurer has been dipping into the till"; then, if you are wrong, you haven't said anything. --Jacques Barzun _The House of Intellect_ (1959), Chap. III, "Conversation, Manners, and the Home" Feelings and me have an understanding. They try to bother me and I don't let them.- Andy Dalziel, in Dalziel and Pascoe, BBC TV. 19 Nov 2001 The less you feel and the more firmly you believe, the more praiseworthy is your faith and the more it will be esteemed and appreciated; for real faith is much more than a mere opinion of man. In it we have true knowledge: in truth, we lack nothing save true faith.... Meister Eckhart (1260?-1327?) If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.-- William James [God] is not proud...He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him. C.S. Lewis --The Problem of Pain I think there is a scriptural distinction between faith
and feeling, grace and comfort....The degree of the one is
not often the just measure of the other. He who looks upon Christ through frames and feelings is like one who sees the sun on the water, and so sees it quivering and moving as the water moves. But he that looks upon him in the glass of his word by faith, sees him forever the same. -- J. T. Nottidge For there be many Christians most like unto young sailors, who think the shore and the whole land doth move, when the ship and they themselves are moved; just so, not a few do imagine that God moveth and saileth and changeth places, because their giddy souls are under sail, and subject to alteration, to ebbing and flowing. But 'the foundation of the Lord abideth sure'. God knoweth that ye are His own. Wrestle, fight, go forward, watch, fear, believe, pray; and then ye have the infallible symptoms of one of the elect of Christ within you. - Samuel Rutherford, Letter I. To LADY KENMURE ANWOTH, July 27, 1628 Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.--Richard Sibbes I would have the whole of my experience one continued sense -- first, of my nothingness, and dependence on God; second, of my guiltiness and desert before Him; third, of my obligations to redeeming love, as utterly overwhelming me with its incomprehensible extent and grandeur... Charles Simeon (1759-1836) "Alas," says one, "I do not feel as I once did." Well, dear friend, it may be that you make some mistake in reference to your own experience. When the passion of love was first lighted in your breast, there was, as it were, a blaze of the match, the paper, and the wood, although the coals had not yet ignited. Yours was then the flush of joy, but not the vehement heat. Now your heart is all on fire like a solid ruby. There is much more heat, though there is less blaze.--Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)_Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Vol. 8 [1862], Pg. 341
The fellowship of being near unto God must become reality, in the full and vigorous prosecution of our life. It must permeate and give color to our feeling, our perception, our sensations, our thinking, our imagining, our willing, our acting,our speaking. It must not stand as a foreign factor in our life, but it must be the passion that breathes throughout our whole existence.- Kuyper, Abraham. To Be Near Unto God. (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1979 ). Let the reader, where we are equally confident, stride on with me; where we are equally puzzled, pause to investigate with me; where he finds himself in error, come to my side; where he finds me erring, call me to his side. So that we may keep to the path, in love, as we fare on toward Him, 'whose face is ever to be sought.' -- Augustine of Hippo, The Trinity 1.5 There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual walk with God. Those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it; yet I do not advise you to do it from that motive.... Brother Lawrence (c.1605-1691) Not a brief glance I beg, a passing word Come not in terrors, as the King of kings, Thou on my head in early youth didst smile, Christians in consort are an abridgement of heaven, shining like a firmament of bright stars. . . Surely, of all fellowships, this is the only good fellowship. Next to communion with God, there is no communion like the communion of saints. = GEORGE SWINNOCK One hundred worshipers meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become "unity" conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.... A. W. Tozer (1897-1963), The Pursuit of God [1948]
So you're a feminist...Isn't that cute. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.--Abigail (Smith) Adams (1744-1818)_Letter to John Adams_ [March 31, 1776] We are obliged to go fair and softly and, in practice,
you know we are the subjects. We have only the name of
masters, and rather than give up this, which would
completely subject us to the despotism of the petticoat, I
hope General Washington and all our brave heroes would
fight. I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman. ~John Adams to his wife, Abigail Adams. I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world- except a woman-governed world. -- Nancy Astor Equality for women? This is madness. --Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) (Quoted in Daniel Savage Gray's _In the Words of Napoleon_ [1977]) A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality ~ Jill Briscoe This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section. --John Callahan A liberated woman is one who rises up and says to her menfolk, 'I will not be dictated to,' and proceeds to become a stenographer. - Chesterton NOW may become a lonely haven for angry women who condemn
Christian principles, hate men, favor alternative
lifestyles, and support abortion-on-demand. Such attitudes
do not represent the women in mainstream America whom I
know. How will the family unit be destroyed? ... the demand alone will throw the whole ideology of the family into question, so that women can begin establishing a community of work with each other and we can fight collectively. Women will feel freer to leave their husbands and become economically independent, either through a job or welfare.--Roxanne Dunbar, _Female Liberation_ Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them. -- Mel Gibson The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together. ... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process. ... --Functions of the Family, Linda Gordon, WOMEN: A Journal of Liberation, Fall, 1969. Women are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern. - Sarah Moore Grimke (1792 &endash; 1873) We're tired of having radical feminist ideology pased off
as the lock-step view of all women. As heirs of a tradition
of strong, capable Christian women, we emphatically affirm
that we are beneficiaries, not victims of our strong
Christian faith. Women's Rights are men's duties. -- Karl Kraus Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. Golda Meir, Israeli prime minister Newsweek, October 23, 1972 I feel that 'man-hating' is an honorable and viable
political act, that the oppressed have a right to
class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them. It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her. Lucretia Mott I resolved to claim for my sex all that an impartial Creator had bestowed, which, by custom and a perverted application of the Scriptures, had been wrested from woman. Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) Anyone familiar with academia knows that it breeds
ideological cults that are prone to dogma and resistant to
criticism. Many women believe that this has now happened to
feminism. In her book _Who Stole Feminism?_ the philosopher
Christina Hoff Sommers draws a useful distinction between
two schools of thought. _Equity feminism_ opposes sexual
discrimination and other forms of unfairness to women. It is
part of the classical liberal and humanistic tradition that
grew out of the Enlightenment, and it guided the first wave
of feminism and launched the second wave. _Gender feminism_
holds that women continue to be enslaved by a pervasive
system of male dominance, the gender system, in which
"bi-sexual infants are transformed into male and female
gender personalities, the one destined to command, the other
to obey." It is opposed to the classical liberal tradition
and allied instead with Marxism, postmodernism, social
constructionism, and radical science. It has become the
credo of some women's studies programs, feminist
organizations, and spokespeople for the women's
movement. By its very nature... the women's liberation movement
precipitates a series of conflict situations--in the
legislatures, in the courts, in the schools, in
industry--with man targeted as the enemy. Confrontation
replaces co-operation as the watchword of all relationships.
Women and men become adversaries instead of partners. Something odd began to happen -- mainly to the country, and incidentally to people like me. As feminism and multiculturalism more and more sought to remake society, attacking much that had served humanity well as narrow or even antique, we concluded we could no longer in good conscience remain on that side. There was both too little respect for the accumulated wisdom of the ages and too much playing havoc with truth and common sense.--Harry Stein, _How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (and Found Inner Peace)_, 2000 What the radical feminists have in fact accomplished is projecting a vision and an agenda of sexual 'liberation' that have had the net effect of making it easier for husbands to dump their wives and children. They have also made it harder for new families to form, by creating a contentious atmosphere between the sexes. Women and men have both lost out, in different ways, in all this. Children have of course lost out worst of all from the decline of families. Yet the feminazis have made 'childhood poverty' one of their political cries. They are shameless. Dr. Thomas Sowell I owe nothing to Women's Lib. Margaret Thatcher The Observer December 1, 1974 Women who complain that [she] was not a feminist because she didn't help other women or openly acknowledge her debt to feminism have a point, but they are also missing something vital. She normalised female success... No one can ever question whether women are capable of single-minded vigour, of efficient leadership, after Margaret Thatcher. She is the great unsung heroine of British feminism.~Natasha Walter, The New Feminism
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means. Oscar Wilde
A gentleman is one who keeps his promises to one who cannot enforce them. Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.-- Amiel Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences andendowments of the human mind.- - Cicero ...the Lord rewards faithfulness above fruitfulness, which puts us all on the same footing, whether famous for our effectiveness or unknown in our faithfulness. JOHN PIPER It is better to be faithful than famous. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. They have slapped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade. -- Ben Hecht, _A Child of the Century_, 1954 The length of a film should be directly related to the
endurance of the human bladder. I am neither a prophet nor a movie critic. I am merely an Orthodox rabbi using ancient Jewish wisdom to make three predictions about The Passion. First: Mel Gibson and Icon Productions will make a great deal of money. Those distributors who surrendered to pressure from Jewish organizations and passed on The Passion will be kicking themselves, while Newmarket Films will laugh all the way to the bank. Theater owners are going to love this film. Second: The Passion will become famous as the most serious and substantive Biblical movie ever made. It will be one of the most talked-about entertainment events in history. My third prediction is that the faith of millions of Christians will become more fervent as The Passion uplifts and inspires them. The Passion will propel vast numbers of unreligious Americans to embrace Christianity. The movie will one day be seen as a harbinger of America's third great religious reawakening. Those Jewish organizations that have squandered both time and money futilely protesting The Passion, ostensibly in order to prevent pogroms in Pittsburgh, can hardly be proud of their performance. They failed at everything they attempted. They were hoping to ruin Gibson rather than enrich him. They were hoping to suppress The Passion rather than promote it. Finally, they were hoping to help Jews rather than harm them. --The Dividers The Passion's critics fail. By Rabbi Daniel Lapin http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/lapin200402250902.asp With perhaps one in five Americans already having seen
it, "The Passion" continues to rack up attendance records.
Would you like to hear an amazing statistic? In spite of
dire warnings by some Jewish groups, no Jews wending their
way homewards from the synagogue have been set upon by
crucifix-wielding Christians intent on wreaking revenge for
the death of Jesus. I am not being sarcastic. This truly is
an amazing statistic. According to Boston police reports,
the Oliver Stone-Quentin Tarantino 1994 "Natural Born
Killers" inspired several imitation murders, including a
firefighter killed by a man who claimed to be fascinated by
the film. Nathaniel White claimed that "Robocop" showed him
how to kill five women and one girl in a year-long murder
spree. Four young gunmen embarked on a killing spree,
murdering four after watching the TV movie "Helter Skelter,"
a film about the Manson murders. The annals of American
crime are filled with instances of the unbalanced and the
demented acting out silver screen slashing
extravaganzas. That is really where the rub is. The critics &endash; sometimes Jews and always liberals &endash; just don't like the New Testament. They resent this movie with the same intensity that Canaanites would have resented a movie about Joshua. I am tempted to write a satirical movie review along these lines. "Mr. Gibson's handling of traditional Canaanite religious beliefs is grossly insensitive. And, when he creates scene after scene based on Deuteronomy 7:16, he violates artistic propriety." - Gary North , Did Jesus Get Lost in Translation?, http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north251.html
We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, 'Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.' Izaak Walton (1593-1683) There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. Steven Wright
A Flatterer is a man that tells you your opinion and not his own. Less of your honey, and more of your honesty. Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies....Yiddish proverb Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. Josh Billings (1818-1885) In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994. They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.- Garrison Keillor Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.That is the difference between the sexes.-- Oscar Wilde
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Bank's Law of Misplaced Objects-You always find something in the last place you looked for it. I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered. - George Best, who also squandered the greatest football talent of his generation. Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. Abba Eban (1915-) It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt George Eliot If 50 million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Anatole France We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we
have done was very foolish. Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. Mary Ellen Kelly The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. -- H.L. Mencken The essence of folly is turning from God as the trustworthy touchstone of all reality and instead making their own preferences the measure of what is real.- John Piper,_The Pleasures of God_. One man's folly is another man's wife. -- Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950) 'Tis by our follies that so long The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. --Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
One of the most wonderful things about life is that we must regularly stop what we are doing and devote our attention to eating. A smiling face is half the meal. Start a new movement -- eat prunes. Food has replaced sex in my life, now I can't even get into my own pants. Those who indulge tend to bulge. "Alan !" <aycee@comswest.net.au> Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.- L. M. Boyd All human history attests ...Dean Mohamet, a Muslim landowner from Patna who had followed his British patron to Ireland. There he soon eloped with, and later marries, Jean Daly, from a leading Anglo-Irish family.... In 1807 Dean Mohamet moved to London where he opened the country's first Indian owned curry restaurant, Dean Mohamet's Hindoostanee Coffee House :...He finally decamped to Brighton where he opened what can only be described as Britain's first oriental massage parlour and became "Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV. "-William Dalrymple, White Mughals, p. xlii In the vicinities of Quito the inhabitants have with to the maize an other plant that serves to support in great part their existence: the potatoes, that they are of the roots similar to the tubercoli, supplies of one rind more or little hard; when they come bubbled they become to hold like the cooked chestnuts; seccate to the sun call to them chuno and they are conserved for the use. - Pedro de Cieza de Leon 1540 Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.--Ralph Waldo Emerson A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality. - Clifton Fadiman, Any Number Can Play (1957) Potatoes of the Virginia. The potato of the Virginia has many coppers flexible cables and that crawl for earth... The root is thick, large and tuberosa; not much various one for shape, color and sapore from common potatoes (the sweet potatoes) but a smaller Pò; some are round as spheres, other ovals; the some longer other shortest ones... It grows spontaneously in America where, as Clusius has reported, it has been discovered; from then I have received these roots from the Virginia otherwise Norembega calls; they grow and they prosper in my garden like in their country of origin... Its correct name is cited in the title it. Poichè it possesses not only the shape and the proportions of potatoes, but also their gradevole sapore and virtue we can call them potatoes of the America or Virginia." Herbal, John Gerard 1597 The smell of that buttered toast simply talked to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cozy parlor firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender, of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries. ~ Kenneth Grahame 1859-1932, The Wind in the Willows (1908) Let food be your medicine. -- Hippocrates O Creator! Thou who givest life to all things and hast made men that they may live, and multiply. Multiply also the fruits of the earth, the potatoes and other food that thou hast made, that men may not suffer from hunger and misery. - Inca prayer, perhaps 2000 years old. Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else. Samuel Johnson (Boswell: Life of Johnson) A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. Samuel Johnson Let me smile with the wise and feed with the rich. Dr. Johnson It is not very easy to fix the principles upon which
mankind have agreed to eat some animals, and reject others;
and as the principle is not evident, it is not uniform. That
which is selected as delicate in one country, is by its
neighbours abhorred as loathsome. Comfort food doesn't take us back to the womb, but to the period shortly thereafter, when we were safely cradled and gently fed. Fragrant stews, thick soups and bubbling gratins make us feel safe, warm and well protected from the raging elements...and so forget the stresses of a sometimes cruel world. ~Sue Kreitzman, Comfort Food When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out. -- Tommy Lasorda Ask your child what he wants for dinner only when he is buying. Fran Lebowitz Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soy beans. Fran Lebowitz There are three possible parts to a date of which two must be offered: entertainment, food and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertaiment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection has replaced the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.--- Judith Martin, _Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior_ (New York, Appleton, 1982), p. 288. Kissing don't last: cookery do. -George Meredith One must eat to live, and not live to eat.--Moliere [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622-1673)_L'Avare_, Act III, Scene 1 A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.-Montaigne Pooh and Piglet walked home thoughtfully together in the golden evening, and for a long time they were silent. "When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said. A A Milne I can neither eat nor sleep for thinking of You, my dearest love. I never touch even pudding. -- Horatio Nelson to Lady Emma Hamilton, 1800 I was . . . overwhelmed by the amazing stink of kimchi, the garlic and hot-pepper sauerkraut that's breakfast, lunch and dinner in Korea. Its odor rises from this nation of 40 million in a miasma of eyeglass-fogging kimchi breath, throat-searing kimchi burps and terrible, pants-splitting kimchi farts. . . .The Koreans are . . perfectly capable of a three- hour lunch, and so are Giannini and I. We ordered dozens of bowls of pickles, garlics, red peppers and hot sauces and dozens of plates of spiced fish and vegetables and great big bottles of OB beer and mixed it all with kimchi so strong it would have sent a Mexican screaming from the room with tongue in flames. By the time we drove, weaving, back to Seoul, you could have used our breath to clean your oven.--P.J. O'Rourke (1947- )_Holidays in Hell_ [1988], "Seoul Brothers" Tis sunstantial happiness to eat - WS, As You Like It. There is no sincerer love than the love of food. George Bernard Shaw There are *two* Italies...The one is the most sublime and
lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the
imagination of man ; the other is the most degraded,
disgusting, and odious. What do you think? Young women of
rank actually eat - you will never guess what -
*garlick* Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that's believing.-- James Thurber, _Further Fables for Our Time_ Principles have no real force except when one is well fed. Mark Twain Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking
if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a
necessity. I saw him even now going the way of all flesh, that is to say towards the kitchen. - John Webster My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. Orson Welles My wife is a light eater ... as soon as it's light, she starts to eat.... Henny Youngman
I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing. When you argue with a fool, chances are he is doing just the same. If you argue with an idiot, people watching may not be able to tell who's who. A fool and his money are soon partying. Bumper sticker Fools are made, not just born; pretty girls make them in their spare time. New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time."- James Agate (1877 &endash; 1947) But human bodies are sic fools, Young men think old men are fools; but old men _know_ young men are fools.-- George Chapman, _All Fools_, 1605 Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.-- Liz Dubey Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. - Euripedes (480 &endash; 406 BC) Fools grow without watering. -- Thomas Fuller what ship plays with icebergs Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever. -Charles Lamb He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot. -- Groucho Marx A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one. -Moliere "I really can't come to your party Mrs. Parker, I can't
bear fools." I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence. - Edgar Allan Poe Sir, I admit your gen'ral rule Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. Albert Schweitzer The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. Herbert Spencer You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. - James Thurber Ah well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect. ~ Mark Twain, on himself, in Edward Wagenknecht, Mark Twain:The Man and His Work. Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. - Thornton Wilder (1897 -1975)
Winning isn't everything. There should be no conceit in victory and no despair in defeat.-, Matt Busby All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football - Albert Camus, Football is a game you play with your brain - , Johan Cruyff Forasmuch as there is great noise in the city caused by
hustling over large balls, from which many evils may arise,
which God forbid, we command and forbid on behalf of the
king,on pain of imprisonment, such game to be used in the
city in future. Football is nothing but beastlie furie and extreme violence. Sir Thomas Elyot "Boke of Governour" 1531 The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement- Freud Football is working class ballet. - , Alf Garnett He isn't fit to lace George Best's drinks. -- A writer in The Independent on Kevin Keegan You might accuse me of having to politicize everything, but, in my hometown, soccer was very definitely a project of the Left.....It was sort of the athletic equivalent of vegetarianism.-- Jay Nordlinger To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink. - JB Priestley, Some people think football is a matter of life and death. It is much more impotant than that. Bill Shankly, Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present, it was her birthday. Would I have got married in the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves. - Shankly As concerning football, I protest unto you that it may rather be called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation----a bloody and murthering practise than a fellowly sport or pastime. And hereof groweth envy, malice, rancour, choler, hatred, displeasure, enmity and what not else; and sometimes fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel-picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of blood, as experience daily teacheth. Philip Stubbes "Anatomie of Abuses" (1583) If partying, drinking and dancing is your thing, then play your football over the park. - Terry Venables, first press conference as Leeds United manager, 9 July 2002 Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians. Oscar Wilde Have you noticed how we only win the World Cup under a Labour Government ? - Harold Wilson 1966 They think it's all over - it is now - Kenneth Wolstenholme, June 1966.
The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations. --David Friedman We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in. ... John Milton (1608-1674) Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force. Thomas Sowell
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When someone hurts me, forgiveness is cheaper than a lawsuit. But not nearly as gratifying. Forgive or relive. He who forgives ends the quarrel. African Proverb Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation - Roberto Assagioli The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. --William Blake (1757-1827) No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.-- John Bunyan Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. Marlene Dietrich Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.--- Robert Lee Frost Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love - - takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice. Dag Hammarskjold, "Markings":, 17.4.1960 "Hey Dad, what mysterious force keeps me from being
hurtled into space?" He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven. Lord Herbert Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet. -- Kin Hubbard Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. - Samuel Johnson, Rambler #185 Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is therefore superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain. -- Samuel Johnson: Rambler #185 Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship."~ Martin Luther King Jr. [God] is not proud...He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him. C.S. Lewis --The Problem of Pain There is power in forgiveness. Phil McGraw God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a 'No Fishing' sign over the spot. D.L.Moody Our forgiving others will not procure forgiveness for ourselves; but our not forgiving others proves that we ourselves are not forgiven. - John Owen With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God. I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself; on the contrary, I have always judged it better to loathe myself the more, in proportion as I was assured that God was pacified towards me (Ezekiel 16:63). ... Charles Simeon (1759-1836) [When you forgive] you set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.- Lewis B. Smedes _Forgive and Forget_. .Over the long run, love's power to forgive is stronger than hate's power to get even.- Lewis B. Smedes _Forgive and Forget_. Forgiving fits faulty folks. And we are all faulty. The
best of us belong to that catholic club where nobody dares
throw the first stone. Corrie Ten Boom tells of a time she learned an important
aspect of spiritual growth. It was 1947 and she had just
finished speaking of God's forgiveness to a group in a small
German church.The audience was still haunted by memories of
war. Yet the message they heard that day brought a sense of
hope. They could forgive those who treated them so cruelly
and go on with life. As the service concluded, Corrie
noticed a heavyset man coming toward her. Instantly, she
remembered him. He had been a guard at the concentration
camp where she had been imprisoned. "I know God has forgiven
me for the things I did," he said. "But I would like to hear
it from your lips. Will you forgive me?" "It was the most
difficult thing I had ever had to do," she writes. "I thrust
my hand into the one stretched out to me. And as I did, an
incredible thing took place. [A] healing warmth
seemed to flood my whole being, bringing tears to my eyes.
'I forgive you, brother!'" Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. --Corrie Ten Boom (1892-1983) Without forgiveness, there's no future. --Desmond Tutu To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. William H. Walton We need not climb into heaven to see whether our sins are forgiven; let us look into our hearts, and see if we can forgive others. If we can, we need not doubt but God has forgiven us - Thomas Watson
When God created France, He realized that He had gone overboard in creating the most perfect place on Earth. So to balance it out, he created the French people. The reason French streets have trees planted down both sides is that the Germans like to march in the shade. I am not like a lady at the court of Versailles, who said: what a dreadful pity that the bother at the tower of Babel should have got language all mixed up; but for that, everyone would always have spoken French~Voltaire, Letter to Catherine the Great (May 26 1767) The Republic has no need of chemists or savants. The
course of justice shall not be interrupted. We propose to burn the academic libraries, because Theology is only fanaticism, History is lies, Philosophy is dreams, and Science is unnecessary. The Commune of Marseilles The French! They're the fellows we shall be fighting next. -- Field-Marshal Douglas Haig, 1919. The loss of the battle of Waterloo was the salvation of France. Thomas Jefferson The victory of the battle of Waterloo helped the English by giving London a large railway station, the appropriate terminus for arrivals from the continent. GJW The Republic has no need for men of science. You must hate a Frenchman as you do the devil. -- Horatio Nelson The French have a short-man's complex. I recently ran into a Frenchman who lectured me on the prowess of the Napoleonic armies, their last winning team. ("Cry havoc, and let slip the Frogs of yore," I thought.) -- Fred Reed, "In The Shadow Of Fort Terror" http://fredoneverything.net/LifeInGuad.shtml If you want to visit Paris, the best time to go is during August, when there aren't any French people there. -- Kenneth Stilling A calcined, scalped, rasped, scraped, flayed, broiled, powdered, leprous, blotched, mangy, grimy, parboiled country without trees, water, grass, fields ... it is infinitely liker hell than earth, and one looks for tails among the people. - Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 &endash; 1909), describing part of France The faithless vain disturber of mankind, Insulting Gaul.--James Thomson, _The Seasons--Autumn_, 1730 On being asked by a Frenchman as to the spelling of his surname, Woodrow Wyatt replied, "Waterloo, Ypres, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Trafalgar." Reported in The Times
Few have defined what free will is, although it repeatedly occurs in the writings of all. Origen seems to have put forward a definition generally agreed upon among ecclesiastical writers when he said that it is a faculty of the reason to distinguish between good and evil, a faculty of the will to choose one or the other. Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent. ... John Calvin (1509-1564), The Institutes of the Christian Religion, ii.2.4 [1559] Reformed definition of free will: "The power to choose according to one's strongest motive, nature and character." In the unregenerate, to freely choose evil. In the regenerate, to freely choose God and the good. Byron Curtis No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please...As it is a truth both of Scripture and of experience that the unrenewed man can do nothing of himself to secure his salvation, it is essential that he should be brought to practical conviction of that truth. When thus convinced, and not before, he seeks help from the only source whence it can be obtained. CHARLES HODGE Freewill. It's a bitch. -- John Milton aka Satan, in Devil's Advocate 1997 If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.-- C S Lewis--Mere Christianity If any man doth ascribe aught of salvation, even the very least, to the free-will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright. Martin Luther . . the issue of free will, like so many great truths, is
a paradox. On the one hand, free will is a reality. We can
be free to chose without "shibboleths" or conditioning or
many other factors. On the other hand, we cannot choose
freedom. There are only two states of being: submission to
God and goodness or the refusal to submit to anything beyond
one's own will - which refusal automatically enslaves one to
the forces of evil. We must ultimately belong either to God
or the devil. We must believe in free will. We have no other choice. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, "You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself." My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will. Charles Haddon Spurgeon I infer that God's decrees, and the necessity of event flowing thence, neither destroy the true free-agency of men, nor render the commission of sin a jot less heinous. They neither force the human will, nor extenuate the evil of human actions. Predestination, foreknowledge, and providence, only secure the event, and render it certainly future, in a way and manner (incomprehensibly indeed by us; but) perfectly consistent with the nature of second causes. Augustus Toplady The greatest judgment which God Himself can, in this present life, inflict upon a man is, to leave him in the hand of his own boasted free-will. AUGUSTUS TOPLADY
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