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New pressure over faith schools
2008-08-31 10:29:00 BBC says,'Ministers are being urged to stop faith schools in England selecting pupils and staff on the basis of their religion.Accord, a new coalition of secular and religious figures, wants the government to stop state-funded schools engaging in what they say is "discrimination".It argues that all children should have equal access to good local schools and that segregating them on religious grounds harms community cohesion.The government argues faith schools can help boost standards in deprived areas.There are about 6,850 faith schools in England out of a total of 21,000 schools. The vast majority of these are Roman Catholic or Church of England.But they also include about 40 Jewish schools and a handful of Muslim, Sikh and Greek Orthodox schools. In September 2007, Schools Secretary Ed Balls said the government would open more faith schools where there was parental demand.But the move has angered some teachers who complain of discriminatory employment practices.The Accord coaliti... More About: Faith
Sheep to march over London Bridge
2008-08-31 09:25:00 BBC says,'A woman who was made a Freeman of the City of London last year is to exercise her right to drive sheep across London Bridge to highlight two causes.Amanda Cottrell, from Challock in Kent, aims to promote attempts to raise £50m to restore Canterbury Cathedral and a scheme backing local food production.She will be joined by Viscount Linley and historian Dr David Starkey.The right of Freemen of the City to drive sheep across the bridge is a privilege dating from the 11th Century.Mrs Cottrell, 67, a former High Sheriff of Kent, said: "This is a unique and, I hope, effective way to raise the profile of both these issues. I am very much looking forward to the event."Something like this hasn't happened for about 10 years so it's a huge deal."It's a fantastic way of promoting two causes but we will have to hold on to the sheep because the police are concerned they might launch themselves into the Thames."'I think it would have a much higher publicity value if she could get th... More About: March , Sheep
Revelation- christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-08-31 08:52:00 The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law. -- Deut. 29:29The most perfect way of seeking God, and the most suitable order, is not for us to attempt with bold curiosity to penetrate to the investigation of His essence, which we ought more to adore than meticulously to search out, but for us to contemplate Him in His works, whereby He renders Himself near and familiar to us, and in some manner communicates Himself. ... John Calvin (1509-1564)In natures, we see God, as it were, like the sun in a picture; in the law, as the sun in a cloud; in Christ we see Him in His beams; He being 'the brightness of His glory, and the exact image of His person. - STEPHEN CHARNOCK[Christians], at their best, know that often they don't know. They do not have all the answers. They do not have God in their pocket. We cannot answer every question that any bright boy in the back row might ask... More About: Revelation
Return of Christ- christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-08-30 14:53:00 From time to time, as we all know, a sect appears in our midst announcing that the world will very soon come to an end. Generally, by some slight confusion or miscalculation, it is the sect that comes to an end.-G K ChestertonWe must never speak to simple, excitable people about "the Day" without emphasizing again and again the utter impossibility of prediction. We must try to show them that that impossibility is an essential part of the doctrine. If you do not believe our Lord's words, why do you believe in His return at all? And if you do believe them, must you not put away from you, utterly and forever, any hope of dating that return? ... C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), The World's Last NightI have resigned from the planning committee and am on the welcoming committee.- Donna Newton on fellowship with those who have differing views on the return of Christ .Neither the nearness nor the remoteness of Christ's return is a rule to regulate us in the ordering of our temporal affairs. Spiri... More About: Return
Retirement - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-08-30 14:49:00 To retire is to begin to die.--Pablo Casals (1876-1973) More About: Retirement
New Labour old shari'a
2008-08-29 17:14:00 The Christian Institute says, on Friday, 29 August 2008'Councillors in Tower Hamlets, East London , have been told not to eat in town hall meetings during the Muslim month of Ramadan. But the same council has renamed a staff Christmas party as a ?festive meal? and banned Guy Fawkes at bonfire night.All elected councillors have been sent an email asking them to support Ramadam by not eating during daylight hours.Special arrangements have also been made to disrupt council meetings to allow for Muslim prayer.The move has led to accusations that the Labour -run council is favouring one religion over others.Councillor Stephanie Eaton, leader of the Liberal Democrat group, said: ?I was rather disconcerted to see that the arrangements put in place for Ramadan, which we support for Muslim colleagues, have been imposed upon all councillors.?We object to the request that non-Muslim councillors observe the fasting rules for Ramadan. This sends out the wrong message to our community.?'
Resurrection - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-08-29 10:45:00 Go my friends and shed no tears,I must lie here till Christ appearsAnonymous epitaph In the bitter cold of winter the trees stand bare and seem to be dead. But in the spring, they burst forth into leaf and flower, and the first fruits begin to appear. So it was with the Master's death and resurrection, and so it is with all who faithfully bear the burden of suffering and death. Though they may seem crushed and dead, they will yet bear beautiful flowers and glorious fruits of eternal life.To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.- Chinese ProverbMen and women disbelieve the Easter story not because of the evidence but in spite of it. It is not that they weigh the evidence with open minds, assess its relevance and cogency and finally decide that it is suspect or inadequate. Instead, they start with the a priori conviction that the resurrection of Christ would constitute such an incredible event that it could not be accepted or believed without scientific demonstration of an irre... More About: Resurrection
Responsibility - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-08-29 10:28:00 Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.We are responsible for the effort, not the outcome.We set the sail; God makes the wind.It's my business to do God's business and it's His business to take care of my business.None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen.Why people get married: Because sooner or later, something is bound to happen which they can't blame on the government.God says, 'Choose what you will and pay for it, '- Spanish proverb "We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.-Samuel Adams (1722-1803) In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.To keep your feet on the ground, carry some responsibility on your shoulders.Failure to hit the bull's-eye is never the fault of the target. -Gilbert ArlandI've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me. - Woody Allen New Yorker 1996Chie...
Respectability- christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-08-28 09:49:00 The lust for academic respectability is the major cause of intellectual whoredom.- R J Rushdoony
Respect - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-08-28 09:46:00 In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. -Jane HaddamI respect everyone. I even respect journalists.- Alexander PopovGoodwill is earned by many acts; it can be lost by one.- Duncan StuartWhen people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.- Mark TwainOften nowadays we hear a question posed that is not really a question. It is an oblique assertion of what the ostensible questioner considers a self-evident truth. The question is: Should we not all respect and honor one's differences? The gravamen of the "question" invariably is that differences of race, ethnicity and sexuality all should be "respected" and "honored." I disagree. Why should respect and honor accrue to accidents of birth? Given that they are accidents, what, precisely, is there to honor? Surely, respect is owed to, and honor should flow to _individuals_, for their attainments of intellectual or m... More About: Respect
Resolutions- christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-08-28 09:45:00 The birds are moulting. If only man could moult also -- his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions. - James Allen (1849 &endash; 1925)One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above little things." --John Burroughs (1837-1921)THE object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards. Unless a man be born again, he shall by no means enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. - G.K. Chesterton, 'Daily News.'Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of ... More About: Resolutions
Resentment - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-08-27 16:44:00 Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. Carrie Fisher
Repetition - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-08-27 16:43:00 Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again. - André Gide, 1869 - 1951
Repentance - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-08-26 17:34:00 If you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turnsSemper peccator, semper penitensTo my eternal shame, I even got my wife and daughter to back me up with witness statements supporting my lie. But then my opponents ambushed me in the middle of the trial with clear documentary evidence that I had told a lie on oath. My credibility as a witness was shattered. I had to withdraw from the libel case. And within 24 hours my whole life was shattered too. The former Cabinet Minister had impaled himself on his own sword of truth, with explosive and apocalyptic consequences. Some people have expressed surprise that I am still in one piece after being so torn to shreds in the onslaught of media vilification and castigation I received at the height of my dramas. A great deal of the criticism of me was vitriolic; some of it was vicious; and I deserved most of it. When these thunderbolts were raining in on me from all directions, I turned to my Christian faith,imperfect though it was, an... More About: Repentance
Repartee - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-08-26 17:16:00 Silence is the unbearable repartee.- Gilbert Keith ChestertonJudge Willis tried to think of a decisive retort. At last it arrived.'Mr. Smith, have you ever heard of a saying by Bacon--the great Bacon--that youth and discretion are ill-wedded companions?''Yes, I have,' came the instant repartee. 'And have you ever heard of a saying of Bacon--the great Bacon--that a much-talking judge is like an ill-tuned cymbal?''You are extremely offensive, young man,' exclaimed the judge.'As a matter of fact,' said Smith, 'we both are; but I amtrying to be, and you can't help it.'Such a dialogue would be held brilliant in a carefully-written play, but that these successvie rejoinders, each more smashing than the former, should have leapt into being upon the spur of the moment is astounding. - Winston Churchill, 'F. E. First Earl of Birkenhead', in _Great Contemporaries_, 1937On another occasion, in the crowing period of his life, he was addressing a meeting in his old constituency. H...
Remembrance - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-08-26 15:26:00 In Flanders Fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe Larks, still bravely singing, fly,Scarce heard amid the guns below.We are the dead. Scarce days agoWe lived , felt dawn, saw sunset glowLoved, and were loved ,and now we lie In Flanders fields.Take up your quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throw ,The torch; be yours to hold it high.If ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders fields.In Flanders Fields, Major John McCrae, May 1915, at YpresThey shall grow not old as we that are left grow old.Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn.At the going down of the sun and in the morningWe shall remember them.Laurence Binyon, For the Fallen, 1914.If there is any substitute for love, it is memory. -Joseph BrodskyThere's a grief that can't be spokenThere's a pain goes on an onEmpty chairs at empty tablesNow my friends are dead and gone.Here they talked of revolutionHere it was ... More About: Remembrance
Remedies - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-08-26 15:23:00 The remedy is worse than the disease. Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. Of Seditions. More About: Remedies
Religion - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-08-25 22:30:00 Don't need a new religion, haven't used the old one up yet.I am, therefore, of opinion that men ought, (after they have examined with unbiased judgments every system of religion, and chosen one system, on their own authority, for themselves,) to avow their opinions and defend them with boldness.-- John Adams Diary Mar. 7, 1756; 'Works' II, p8Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky, but the stars are there, and will reappear. --CarlyleOne sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric that implies that there is something wrong with religious devotion. -- Stephen L. Carter, _The Culture of Disbelief_, 1993...religion is the only firm foothold of all power; that cast loose or depraved, no government can be stable; for when was there ever obedience when religion did not teach it? - Charles I to Queen Henrietta Maria in Jemes Barbary, Purita...
SAN'A Yemen persecution of Christian converts
2008-08-21 17:57:00 Fon News says,'SAN'A, Yemen ? Yemeni police have detained at least nine people this year for converting from Islam to Christian ity, a security official said Tuesday.The nine were arrested between May and early August and remain in police custody, said the official.Converting from Islam to any other religion is illegal in Yemen and can be punishable by death. But in previous cases, those arrested are usually released after they revoke their new faith and pledge to return to Islam.Three of the nine were detained in west of the capital, San'a, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. He declined to provide details about the others.A family member of one of the detained said he fears those arrested could face torture or abuse in prison. The family member, who declined to be named because of security concerns, said Hani el-Dahayni, 30, was detained in May after police stormed his office and confiscated computers and c... More About: Persecution , Converts
Relativity - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-08-21 13:36:00 Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.- Albert EinsteinHow long is a minute depends on which side of the bathroom door you are on. - Albert Einstein....our times when it is unfashionable to be sure of anything, when anything is tolerated except intolerance and when any individual is infallible except the Pope. - Anne Widdicombe MP, The Path To Rome More About: Relativity
Regret - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-08-21 11:41:00 Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity.- Omar Idn Al-HalifThe life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humbles hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. -Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) _The Little Minister_ [1891], Chapter 1Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. -Louis E. BooneClassic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. ROLLING IN THE MUCK IS NOT THE BEST WAY OF GETTING CLEAN.- Aldous Huxley, Brave New WorldI regret many follies which sprang from my obstinancy; but without that trait I would not have reached my ... More About: Regret
Regeneration - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-08-21 10:19:00 Christ never undertakes to heal any but he makes a certain cure, 'Those whom thou givest me I have kept, and none of them is lost' (John17:12). Other physicians can only cure them that are sick, but Christ cures them that are dead, 'And you hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins' (Eph. 2:1).-THOMAS BROOKS. ...the first effect of the power of God in the heart in regeneration is to give the heart a Divine taste or sense; to cause it to have a relish of the loveliness and sweetness of the supreme excellency of the Divine nature.- JONATHAN EDWARDSSheep and swine can both end up in the mire. Yet the essential difference in their two natures is quie visible from the reaction each has to its fallen condition. While sheep do stray and stumble into the mire,they quickly loathe the situation and struggle to get free. They may be dirty, but they desire to be clean. They may be stuck, but they bleat for their shepherd to come and save them out of the muck. But swine, in keep...
Reformation - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-08-20 17:59:00 sola fide * sola gratia * sola Scriptura * soli Deo gloriaSemper Reformanda et ReformansIt is the reformed attitude, rather than the reforming one, that I think has caused more damage to the Church than most things in current days. In possessing the keys to the kingdom, we are in danger of hitting other pilgrims on their journey to the celestial city with those keys, instead of trying to unlock more truth together.- Trevor AllinReforms come from the bottom. No man with four aces requests a new deal. Frank BaerLuther's rejection of Papal authority was not due to any difficulty he may have experienced in reconciling the claims made for the Petrine office with the character of the men who occupied the Papal throne in his time, nor to any confusion caused by the Conciliar Movement. His objections went much deeper and sprang, not from the concrete existential situation of his time, but from his theological principles. Luther saw quite early that his theory of justification by faith alo...
Rednecks - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-08-20 10:52:00 The term used to describe them (Ulster Scots) was rednecks, a Scots border term meaning Presbyterian s. - Arthur Herman, How the Sots Invented the Modern World, 2001As a symbol of their covenant with God and each other, the Scottish Covenanters began wearing a red collar around their neck. Noting the symbolism, the English began to derisively refer to these religious dissenters as "Rednecks." Thus, the origin of the term was born in Christian reformation and resistance to religious and political coercion. Due to their religious and political oppression, and eventual defeat, many of Scotland's Covenanters fled their homeland and came to settle the American South. So it is that the South became the historic home for the Scottish "Rednecks," who sought to live according to the true teachings of the Bible. In Praise Of"Redneckism" By Wayne Carlson - 02.19.02 http://www.sierratimes.com/02/02/19/carls on.htm More About: Christianity
More dhimmitude
2008-08-19 22:49:00 From the desk of The Brussels Journal A quote from the press agency AKI, 18 August 2008The Islamic Community in Serbia said on Monday it was not satisfied with the withdrawal of Sherry Jones? novel, The Jewel of Medina, from the country?s bookshops. Referring to the book released by Belgrade publisher Beobuk three weeks ago, the organisation?s leader Muamer Zukorlic said it was ?offensive to Muslims? and demanded all of the published copies be handed in. He also called for director Aleksandar Jasic to repent for what he had done.After an initial complaint from the Islamic community, Jasic apologised saying the company "had no intention of insulting Muslims in Serbia" and announced the book would not be available in any bookstore in the country. But Zukorlic said on Monday that this was not enough. [?]The book was due to have a world premier in Serbia, since its US publisher decided against selling the book fearing the reaction of radical Muslims. [?] The novel is a love story about ... More About: Dhimmitude
Don't be fooled by China and the games
2008-08-19 16:02:00 This is a country with little liberty.Jeremy Reynalds reports as Correspondent for ASSIST News Service 'BEIJING (ANS) -- Members of an American Christian group have ended a standoff with Chinese customs officials over Bibles they were trying to bring into the country.Voice of America (VOA) reported Vision Beyond Borders leader Pat Klein said Monday that he and three others spent 26 hours at the Kunming airport in the southwestern province Yunnan, waiting for officials to return more than 300 confiscated Bibles. A representative for the group, Dyann Romeijn, told VOA the four decided to leave the airport Monday after it became clear Chinese officials would not return the books. She said Klein became concerned he and his traveling companions - including a 78-year-old man and 15-year-old boy - would be forcibly removed from the airport. VOA reported the group was attempting to bring the Chinese-language scriptures into Kunming for distribution. But U.S embassy officials later told the... More About: China , Games
Olympic medals so far
2008-08-19 10:54:00 gold silver bronzeChina 45 15 21 U.S.A. 27 28 28 Great Britain 17 11 11 Australia 11 13 13Seoul 1988 - the Brits got 5, while the Aussies got 3. Thereafter, the Aussies have always ended up on top. ? 17/9 in Athens? 16/11 in Sydney? 9/1 in Atlanta? 7/5 in BarcelonaAs long as we beat the Aussies I care not about how many medals. I am in fact ambivalent about a success built on money from the Morons' Tax, aka the National Lottery. On the one hand I do not approve of lotteries but OTOH I do not apporove of tax being spent on sport.My one mystification about the Olympic s is why are we GB and not UK for we have team members from Northern Ireland which is part of the UK not GB. More About: Olympic Medals
Redemption - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-08-18 14:16:00 Redemption. It is also because the people of God were in Christ when He gave His life a ransom and redeemed them by His blood that salvation has been secured for them; they are represented as united to Christ in His death, resurrection, and exaltation to heaven (Rom. 6:2-11; Eph.2:4-6; Col. 3:3, 4). . . . Hence we may never think of the work of redemption wrought once for all by Christ apart from the union with His people which was effected in the election of the Father before the foundation of the world.John Murray (Redemption Accomplished and Applied More About: Redemption
Recycling - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-08-18 13:59:00 Recycling Tips - Old telephone books make great address books.Just cross out the names of people you don't know More About: Recycling
It feels like Christians are being discriminated against
More articles from this author:2008-08-17 07:59:00 ..... the multiculturalizing of the law has given rise to a steady stream of conflicting judgments that appear to display bias against traditional British culture. To give but one example, last year, Lydia Playfoot, 16, lost her high court battle to be allowed to wear, at school, a Christian chastity ring, which she viewed as emblematic of her faith, and her commitment ? as a Christian ? to refrain from pre-marital sex. Recently Sarika Singh, 14, won her high court case to be allowed to wear a silver bangle, at her school, as part of her Sikh faith. Miss Playfoot?s told the BBC, after losing her case, ?At my school Muslims are allowed to wear headscarves and other faiths can wear bangles and other types of jewelry and it feels like Christians are being discriminated against.? And this sense of discrimination by the authorities is becoming widespread among the indigenous population of Britain.-A. Millar Fractured Society: The UK, the Relativity of Law, and a New Bill of Rightsr , 20... More About: Christianity , Islam 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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