Christian Quoter

RSS Feed Homepage

Articles: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

totalitarian - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-10 08:26:00
From the descriptive point of view, the difference between the physician and the veterinarian is that the former treats human diseases or sick people, whereas the latter treats animal diseases or sick animals. From the moral and political point of view, the difference between them is that the physician is expected to be the agent of the persons who are his patients, whereas the veterinarian is expected to be the agent of persons who own sick animals. In proportion, then, as the physician becomes the agent of the State and in proportion as the State is totalitarian, the physician becomes, from a moral and political point of view, a veterinarian- that is, the agent of a State that owns its citizens, just as the farmer owns his animals. This is why killing animals is part of the normal function of the veterinarian and why incarcerating people is, and killing them may yet become, a part of the normal function of the physician employed by the Therapeutic State.--Thomas Szasz

totalitarian - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-10 08:26:00
From the descriptive point of view, the difference between the physician and the veterinarian is that the former treats human diseases or sick people, whereas the latter treats animal diseases or sick animals. From the moral and political point of view, the difference between them is that the physician is expected to be the agent of the persons who are his patients, whereas the veterinarian is expected to be the agent of persons who own sick animals. In proportion, then, as the physician becomes the agent of the State and in proportion as the State is totalitarian, the physician becomes, from a moral and political point of view, a veterinarian- that is, the agent of a State that owns its citizens, just as the farmer owns his animals. This is why killing animals is part of the normal function of the veterinarian and why incarcerating people is, and killing them may yet become, a part of the normal function of the physician employed by the Therapeutic State.--Thomas Szasz

totalitarian - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-10 08:26:00
From the descriptive point of view, the difference between the physician and the veterinarian is that the former treats human diseases or sick people, whereas the latter treats animal diseases or sick animals. From the moral and political point of view, the difference between them is that the physician is expected to be the agent of the persons who are his patients, whereas the veterinarian is expected to be the agent of persons who own sick animals. In proportion, then, as the physician becomes the agent of the State and in proportion as the State is totalitarian, the physician becomes, from a moral and political point of view, a veterinarian- that is, the agent of a State that owns its citizens, just as the farmer owns his animals. This is why killing animals is part of the normal function of the veterinarian and why incarcerating people is, and killing them may yet become, a part of the normal function of the physician employed by the Therapeutic State.--Thomas Szasz

totalitarian - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-10 08:26:00
From the descriptive point of view, the difference between the physician and the veterinarian is that the former treats human diseases or sick people, whereas the latter treats animal diseases or sick animals. From the moral and political point of view, the difference between them is that the physician is expected to be the agent of the persons who are his patients, whereas the veterinarian is expected to be the agent of persons who own sick animals. In proportion, then, as the physician becomes the agent of the State and in proportion as the State is totalitarian, the physician becomes, from a moral and political point of view, a veterinarian- that is, the agent of a State that owns its citizens, just as the farmer owns his animals. This is why killing animals is part of the normal function of the veterinarian and why incarcerating people is, and killing them may yet become, a part of the normal function of the physician employed by the Therapeutic State.--Thomas Szasz

totalitarian - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-10 08:26:00
From the descriptive point of view, the difference between the physician and the veterinarian is that the former treats human diseases or sick people, whereas the latter treats animal diseases or sick animals. From the moral and political point of view, the difference between them is that the physician is expected to be the agent of the persons who are his patients, whereas the veterinarian is expected to be the agent of persons who own sick animals. In proportion, then, as the physician becomes the agent of the State and in proportion as the State is totalitarian, the physician becomes, from a moral and political point of view, a veterinarian- that is, the agent of a State that owns its citizens, just as the farmer owns his animals. This is why killing animals is part of the normal function of the veterinarian and why incarcerating people is, and killing them may yet become, a part of the normal function of the physician employed by the Therapeutic State.--Thomas Szasz

totalitarian - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-10 08:26:00
From the descriptive point of view, the difference between the physician and the veterinarian is that the former treats human diseases or sick people, whereas the latter treats animal diseases or sick animals. From the moral and political point of view, the difference between them is that the physician is expected to be the agent of the persons who are his patients, whereas the veterinarian is expected to be the agent of persons who own sick animals. In proportion, then, as the physician becomes the agent of the State and in proportion as the State is totalitarian, the physician becomes, from a moral and political point of view, a veterinarian- that is, the agent of a State that owns its citizens, just as the farmer owns his animals. This is why killing animals is part of the normal function of the veterinarian and why incarcerating people is, and killing them may yet become, a part of the normal function of the physician employed by the Therapeutic State.--Thomas Szasz

totalitarian - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-10 08:26:00
From the descriptive point of view, the difference between the physician and the veterinarian is that the former treats human diseases or sick people, whereas the latter treats animal diseases or sick animals. From the moral and political point of view, the difference between them is that the physician is expected to be the agent of the persons who are his patients, whereas the veterinarian is expected to be the agent of persons who own sick animals. In proportion, then, as the physician becomes the agent of the State and in proportion as the State is totalitarian, the physician becomes, from a moral and political point of view, a veterinarian- that is, the agent of a State that owns its citizens, just as the farmer owns his animals. This is why killing animals is part of the normal function of the veterinarian and why incarcerating people is, and killing them may yet become, a part of the normal function of the physician employed by the Therapeutic State.--Thomas Szasz

totalitarian - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-10 08:26:00
From the descriptive point of view, the difference between the physician and the veterinarian is that the former treats human diseases or sick people, whereas the latter treats animal diseases or sick animals. From the moral and political point of view, the difference between them is that the physician is expected to be the agent of the persons who are his patients, whereas the veterinarian is expected to be the agent of persons who own sick animals. In proportion, then, as the physician becomes the agent of the State and in proportion as the State is totalitarian, the physician becomes, from a moral and political point of view, a veterinarian- that is, the agent of a State that owns its citizens, just as the farmer owns his animals. This is why killing animals is part of the normal function of the veterinarian and why incarcerating people is, and killing them may yet become, a part of the normal function of the physician employed by the Therapeutic State.--Thomas Szasz

Total depravity- christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-09 15:44:00
If you think that there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody.I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like, but I do know what the heart of a good man is like... and it is terrible.Every new generation is a fresh invasion of savages. --Hervey Allen, "Anthony Adverse"You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.-- AristophanesThe bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself. -- AristotleThe doctrine of Total Inability, which declares that men are dead in sin, does not mean that all men are equally bad, nor that any man is as bad as he could be, nor that any one is entirely destitute of virtue, nor that human nature is evil in itself, nor that man's spirit is inactive, and much less does it mean that the body is dead. What it does mean is that since the fall man rests under the curse of sin, that he is actuated by wrong principles, and that he is wholly unable to love God or to do anything meriting salvation. His corruption is extensive but not necess...

Tongue - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-08 13:55:00
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.-John CalvinDiscretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.- Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. Of Discourse.God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth and the lips, to teach us to be wary that we offend not with our tongue.- Thomas Watson
More About: Tongue

Books read in April 2009
2009-04-07 18:44:00
1. Banner in the West: A Spiritual History of Lewis and Harris by John Macleod There is no place like The Long Island. There is no church history book like this one. This is no pretendedly objective academic church history. It is by a man commited to his home, its religion and culture. He writes with passion and humour. It is rare for a Christian tome to make one laught out loud as this one does, at of all things, church discipline. The Outer Hebridees are the most Christian part of the UK. Where else do people still leave houses unlocked? It helps if you have visited to know the places described here. You journey through the history of Christianity in Scotland, from its first missionaries to Reformation, the coming of evangelical Presbyterianism and its subsequent splits. The divisions are dealt with in historical detail save for the latest split in the Free Church over which the author maintains a discreet silence as his father was at its centre. Here you learn the church history ...
More About: Books , April , Read

Tolerance - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-07 13:05:00
The way to disarm any idea is to tolerate it.Tolerance to all faiths is obedience to none.There is a rule in sailing that the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relations as well. -- Joyce BrothersThere are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing. -R. BrowningThere are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.-G.K. ChestertonThese are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own. G.K. ChestertonCreeds must disagree: it is the whole fun of the thing. If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit; but, obviously, we must argue. Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It ...

Foster mother 'struck off' after Muslim girl converts
2009-04-06 17:44:00
A foster mother has been struck off by a council after a teenage Muslim girl in her care became a Christian. The carer, who has ten years? experience and has looked after more than 80 children, said she was ?devastated? by the decision.?This is my life,? she revealed. ?It is not just a job for me. It is a vocation. I love what I do. It is also my entire income. I am a single carer, so that is all I have to live on.?The foster mother said she had recently bought a larger car and had been renting a farmhouse, with a pony in a field, so that she could provide more disadvantaged children with a new life.?That was always my dream and then suddenly, bang, it was gone. I am now in a one-bedroom flat,? she added. The girl is understood to be back with members of her family, who have not been told of her conversion. A second girl the woman was fostering has been moved to another carer.The woman insisted that, although she was a Christian, she had put no pressure on the Muslim girl, who was 1...
More About: Christianity , Girl , Mother , Converts

Toasts - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-06 14:32:00
May you never lie, steal, cheat or drink. But if you must lie, lie in each other's arms. If you must steal, steal kisses. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink with us, your friends.Here's a health to all those that we love,Here's a health to all those that love us,Here's a health to all those that love them -that love those - that love them -that love those - that love us.

Titles - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-05 08:51:00
Empty heads are very fond of long titles.--German ProverbIt is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.--Niccolo MachiavelliI weigh the man, not his title: 'tis not the king's inscription can make the metal better or heavier.--William Wycherley
More About: Titles

Time - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-04 13:47:00
So many pedestrians, so little time.Give us back our eleven days!Popular cry in England after the adoption of the Gregorian calendar. 2 September 1752 was immediately followed by 14 September 1752.Hours are Time 's shafts, and one comes winged with death. --Scottish Clock MottoLoss and Possession, Death and Life are one.There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.Inscription on sundialI am a shadow, so art thou,I mark the time, dost thou?Inscription on sundialWhen thou dost look upon my face,To learn the time of day:Think how my shadow keeps its pace,As thy life flies away.Take, mortal this advice from meAnd so resolve to spendThey life on earth, that heaven shall beThy home when time shall end.Inscription on sundialYou can't turn back the clock but you can wind it up again.You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.You can find the time for the people and things that are most important to you.How dreadfully silent is the ticking of timeTime is a sort of river of pa...

Thinking - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-03 10:07:00
A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.Don't be so open-minded your brains fall out.I don't think so," said René Descartes. Just then, he vanished.I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.We would worry less about what people think of us, if we knew how seldom they did!Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. -- Arab ProverbMan's mind is a watch that needs winding daily. -- Welsh ProverbThought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.-- Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888)Thinking is sometimes injurious to health. -- AristotleOur life is what our thoughts make it.-- Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.)And the bartender says to Rene Descartes, 'Another beer?' And Descartes says, 'I think not,' and disappears. - Alfred Bester (1913 &endash;-1987)The average person thinks he isn't. -- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), "The Devil's Diction...

Theory - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-04-02 10:36:00
It is the theory that decides what can be observed.-Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.- Jan van de Snepscheut
More About: Theory

See and hear me preach
2009-04-01 11:11:00
Click on the link. There is translation into Korean. But it did not work on my Mac.
More About: Hear

Blatant hypocrisy and selfishness
2009-03-31 23:15:00
BBC says,'Senior civil servants, top NHS managers and judges will get a lower than recommended pay rise of 1.5% next year, Gordon Brown has announced.The prime minister said the economic crisis meant the 2009-10 rises had to be lower than suggested by the Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB).However, all military personnel were awarded the recommended 2.8% rise.Senior public sector staff should lead by showing "restraint," Mr Brown told MPs, who will get a pay rise of 2.33%.'Words almost fail me. Telling others to show restraint while he feeds his lobby fodder.
More About: Hypocrisy

Theology - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-03-31 17:17:00
All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass-- Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.--Archibald Alexander (1772-1851)In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians -- Karl BarthThe theologian who has no joy in his work is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this science. --Karl Barth (1886-1968) (Quoted in his obituary, _New York Times_ [December 11, 1968])Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.-- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) In "Correct Quotes for DOS," WordStar International, 1991.Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes utter excellent sayings, yet they have nothing but what is short-lived, and even mixed up with wicked and erroneous sentiments. JOHN CALVINA man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant. - STEPHEN CHARN...

London Homelessness Prevention Officer told ?say ?God Bless? and we?ll sack
2009-03-30 10:55:00
Christian Legal Centre reports 'A HOMELESSNESS Prevention officer with Wandsworth Council has been suspended from work for nearly two months for encouraging a homeless woman with an incurable medical condition to look to God for help, after doctors told her they?d given up hope.Duke Amachree, aged 53 who has worked for the local authority for almost 18 years was suspended on 28 January 2009 for discussing his faith with a client, and was told in an investigatory interview on 17 March that he should not raise the issue of religion at work. Not only was Mr Amachree told it was inappropriate to ?ever talk about God?, he was also told that he may not even say ?God bless?.Mr Amachree, a member of the UK World Evangelism Church in London , was summoned to an interview as a result of a complaint made against him by a member of the public. Mr Michael Phillips, a solicitor working with the Christian Legal Centre, which was consulted by the worker, said: ?On 26 January, Mr Amachree met a cl...
More About: England , Told , Officer

if you would like to hear me
2009-03-29 22:13:00
http://www.chelmsfordpres.org.uk/resource s/sermons/various.htmlMy last two sermons.
More About: Hear

The Credit Crunch
2009-03-29 17:17:00
A Korean church asked me to preach on this.Ex. 20:1 And God spoke all these words: 2 ?I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 3 ?You shall have no other gods before me. Ex. 20:1 And God spoke all these words: 2 ?I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 3 ?You shall have no other gods before me.God was Israel?s saviour who had brought them out of Egypt. Would they now trust in Him to keep them, to provide for them? He is the Lord. He is their covenant God. Will they trust him? Sadly they often trusted in idols, false gods who were no gods but because they were the gods of powerful nations around them, God?s people were often led astray. Only exile cured them.Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols. John CalvinMan's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and fo...
More About: Christianity , Credit , Crunch

Thatcher - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-03-27 14:18:00
The closer you got to Margaret, the more attractive you found her character because you heard about the small kindnesses to individuals, the consideration she showed to people whom nobody had heard of. - William Deedes in Brenda Maddox, Maggie the First Lady, p108The grocer's daughter - French President Valery Giscard d'Estang on Margaret Thatcher , Brenda Maddox, Maggie the First Lady, p187Even her closest allies were not safe from her sharp tongue. "I remember",says Deedes,"Airey (Neeve) walking out of a meeting saying that he'd never been spoken at so rudely in his life before." (That superlative was impressive from a man who had been in Colditz.) - Brenda Maddox, Maggie the First Lady, p108We're a cavalry regiment led by a corporal in the Women's Royal Army Corps - An unidentified Conservative leader on Margaret Thatcher as their newly elected leader, quoted by Cecil Parkinson in Brenda Maddox, Maggie the First Lady, p125... she ( Margaret Thatcher )is democratic enough to t...

Thanksgiving - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-03-26 17:14:00
(That all the People may with united Hearts on that Day express a just Sense of His unmerited Favors -- Particularly in that it hath pleased Him, by His over ruling Providence to support us in a just and necessary War for the Defence of our Rights and Liberties; ...by defeating the Councils and evil Designs of our Enemies, and giving us Victory over their Troops -- and by the Continuance of that Union among these States, which by his Blessing, will be their future Strength & Glory. --Samuel Adams on behalf of the Continental Congress, November 3, 1778Thanksgiving ) 'Twas founded be th' Puritans to give thanks f'r bein' presarved fr'm th' Indyans, an' . . . we keep it to give thanks we are presarved fr'm th' Puritans. Finley Peter Dunne (Mr. Doole

Terrorism - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-03-25 10:47:00
Breaking the link between terrorism and religious ideology is difficult.- Eliza Manningham-Buller, MI5's director-general, at the Royal United Services Institute conference in central London 16 June 2003
More About: Terrorism

The English Claim of Right
2009-03-24 10:48:00
"We declare and pledge that in all our actions and deliberations the interests of the English people shall be paramount. We further declare and pledge that our actions and deliberations shall be directed to the following ends: To assert the right of the English people to live in a sovereign nation state of England, free of foreign control; To agree a scheme for a Parliament for England; To mobilise English opinion and ensure the approval of the English people for that scheme; and to assert the right of the English people to secure the implementation of that scheme."Cick on the title to sign up to The English Claim of Right

Temptation- christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-03-24 08:19:00
All the water in the world, however hard it tries, can never sink the smallest ship unless it gets inside, and all the evil in the world, the blackest kind of sin, can never hurt you in the least, unless you let it in.If you have been tempted into evil, fly from it. It is not falling into the water, but lying in it, that drowns.The devil's boots don't creak..Flee temptation and don´t leave a forwarding address.The stomach is easier filled than the eye. -- German ProverbMy soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed. --Francis AsburyWhatever good is to be attained, struggle is necessary. So do not fear temptations, but rejoice in them, for they lead to achievement. God helps and protects you. St. BarsanuphiusThe heart of man is revealed in temptation. Man knows his sin, which without temptation he could never have known; for in temptation man knows on what he has set his heart. The coming to light of sin is the work of the accuser, who thereby thinks to have won...
More About: Temptation

Telephone - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-03-23 12:09:00
There are worse things than getting a call for the wrong number at 4 AM. It could be the right number.- Doug Larson
More About: Telephone