Friday, July 1, 2016

Misc quotes for Friday, July 1, 2016

"We are repeatedly told these days that music is the most important thing we do in worship. In fact, 'worship' usually means singing or enjoying the singing of others. 'Let's just take some time now to worship' is roughly translated 'Cue the praise band!' (From A Better Way: Rediscovering the Drama of God Centered Worship)

 “Give me control over a nation’s currency and I care not who makes its laws.”
-Baron M.A. Rothschild

“Christian patriots spend more time washing feet than waving flags.” - Chuck Colson (1931-2012)

"Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." ----George Bush Senior speaking in an interview with Sarah McClendon in December 1992 (Source)

"Whenever you run a clandestine operation, you run two things at the same time: you prepare the team for the hit, and you keep it so small there's nobody to spread it all around. And across the hall is a big staff working on what we call special plans. They're preparing the cover story. The cover story is what they want people to believe and to talk about, and to argue about." - From a 1992 speech by Col. Fletcher Prouty, former chief of special operations, Joint Chief of Staff (as quoted in Deep Truth: The Lives of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein)   


"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discover it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship and then  a monarchy." (Source)

"If you knew that you could live in luxury for the rest of your life but that by doing so it would absolutely destroy the future for your children, your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren would you do it?  Well, that is exactly what we are doing as a nation.  Over the past several decades, we have stolen 15 trillion dollars from future generations so that we could enjoy a dramatically inflated level of prosperity.  Our 15 trillion dollar party has been a lot of fun, but what we have done to our children and our grandchildren has been beyond criminal.  We ran up the greatest mountain of debt in the history of the planet and we are sticking them with the bill.  Sadly, both political parties have been responsible for the big spending that has been going on." (Source)


"A wicked generation is a generation of vipers, and ought to be told so." - Matthew Henry (1664-1714)
"Does saving faith require a trust in the righteousness of Christ alone as the grounds of our justification? Or may a person have a different view of the gospel and still be a Christian?" - Dr. R. C. Sproul (From Faith Alone: The Evangelical Doctrine of Justification)

"An advertisement keeps popping up for a new paraphrase of the Bible. It's a full page, color photograph of a woman who appears to be young, sophisticated, well educated, with a hint of cynicism. 'Pastor,' the caption reads, 'if you want to reach me, you better watch your language.' The inside cover elaborates: 'Distracted by deadlines and bills, this is the only time she takes to nurture her spiritual life. You can't afford to lose her attention when you reference Bible passages that are too lofty and obscure.' Why can't a good pastor respond, 'No, this isn't about making things comfortable for you. If you are baptized, then this speech that the Bible uses is your language. You have to make an effort to understand it, to live in its world, and to breath its air. If you are too distracted by deadlines and bills to take any time outside this one hour a week for your faith, then you'll pardon me for not losing the rest of my congregation to the world just for you." - Dr. Michael Horton, (From A Better Way: Rediscovering the Drama of God Centered Worship)

"It is difficult to conceive the U.S. going to war with any country that would honor the Geneva Convention." Ann Coulter
"Stare decisis - also known as 'what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable' - is a ratchet preserving only cases liberals like, while they feel completely free to completely ignore Supreme Court precedents they don't like." - Ann Coulter

How I Found Christ?

 How I Found Christ? by Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)