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Teeth- christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-03-23 12:08:00
Uneasy is the tooth that wears a crown.Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache - Mae West
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Teacher - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-03-22 07:22:00
You may teach what you know, but you can only reproduce what you are.A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Brooks Adams "The Education of Henry Adams"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. Thomas CarruthersIf you would know anything thoroughly, teach it to others. Tryon EdwardsBehind almost every great man there stands either a good parent or a good teacher. - Gilbert HighetImparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame. --Jane PorterHe taught me to teach myself, which is the greatest thing a teacher can do. - Isaac Stern (1920 &endash; 2001)It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others and less trouble. Mark Twain
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Tea - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-03-21 06:33:00
I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an engender of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age.~William Cobbett (1762-1835), The Vice of Tea-DrinkingThe tea drinking has done a great deal in bringing this nation into the state of misery in which it now is, it must be evident to every one that the practice of tea drinking must render the frame feeble, and unfit to encounter hard labour or severe weather, while . . . it deducts from the means of replenishing the belly and covering the back. Hence succeeds a softness, an effeminacy, a seeking for the fireside, a lurking in the bed, and, in short, all the characteristics of idleness.William Cobbett , Cottage Economy 1822

Christian Minister attacked by Muslims
2009-03-20 20:56:00
Christian Legal Centre says 'A Christian minister from Heston United Reformed Church, West London, has been assaulted by three Muslim men who ripped off his cross and warned: ?If you go back to the studio, we?ll break your legs.? The Reverend Noble Samuel, a Pakistan-born Christian, 48, was educated by Christian missionaries and moved to Britain in 1994. He holds debates with Muslims on his TV Gospel show. The incident occurred, as he was driving to his studio one morning to do his programme. A car pulled over in front of him and a man got out as if to ask him directions..Rev. Samuel said: ?He put his hand into my window, which was half open, and grabbed my hair and opened the door. He started slapping my face and punching my neck. He was trying to smash my head on the steering wheel. Then he grabbed my cross and pulled it off and it fell on the floor. He was swearing. He said that if I went back to the studio they?d break my legs?. The other two men came from the car and took my l...
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More trumpet blowing
2009-03-20 17:42:00
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Islamification of Britain
2009-03-20 16:49:00
Labour Party MP Shahid Malik has predicted the total Islam ification of Britain and a Muslim prime minister, ?Allah willing?, within the next thirty years. The remarks were made at the October 2008 ?Global Peace and Unity? conference held at the Excel London centre, but were deliberately withheld from the video coverage released of that event. The video speech in which Mr Malik made his remarks has now been released on the internet?nearly five months after the event. The suppression of the video was clearly designed to try and limit the damage to the ruling Tory and Labour elite, whose immigration policies have led to the situation where a Muslim cabinet minister can confidently predict the total Islamification of this nation. In his speech, Mr Malik said that he was ?proud of the achievements of the Muslims of this country since 1997.? Referring to Muslim members of the British parliament, himself included, Mr Malik went on to say that: ?In 1997 we got our first Muslim MP. In 2001 w...
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Tax - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-03-20 08:12:00
The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt enough voters to win the next election.President Reagan has noted that there are too many economic pundits and forecasters and has decided on an excess prophets tax.A socialist and your taxes are both soon wastedWORK HARDER!... Millions on welfare depend on YOU!!!Where there's a will, there's an Inheritance Tax.A fine is a tax on doing wrong; a tax is a fine on doing well.Harbour, n. A place where ships taking shelter from storms are exposed to the fury of the Customs.The Devil's Dictionary by AmbroseTo tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. --Edmund BurkeThose who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains; those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple. -- Marcius Porcius Cato (The Elder)We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle...

Books read in March 2009
2009-03-19 22:02:00
1. What Is a True Calvinist? (Basics of the Reformed Faith) by Philip Graham RykenNot according to the author, one who holds five particular doctrines. Ryken says the true Calvinist has a God centered mind, a penitent spirit, a grateful heart, a submissive will, a holy life and a glorious purpose. A warm, easy to read bookl2. What Is the Christian Worldview? (Basics of the Reformed Faith) by Philip Graham RykenThe author tells us a worldview is the way we look at all of life to make sense of the world. His Christian perspective is centered on the God who is there and is not silent. Crearion tells us the way we were. The fall tells us we live in paradise lost. Grace is a work in progress from God. There is glory to come, paradise consummated Gospel good tidings are no matter of mere religion but all of life is lived under God's rule.3. What Is a Reformed Church? (Basics of the Reformed Faith) by Stephen SmallmanThis booklet gives the historic reformation roots of Protestant church...
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Talking- christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-03-19 15:45:00
Lord, fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff;and, nudge me when I have said enough.To do all the talking and not be willing to listen is a form of greed. - Democritus of Abdera, 4th-5th century B. C.Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice. -Stanley HorowitzIf we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be be better than they are in the world; at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.- JOHN OWENIt is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out. ~Alexander Pope, Miscellanies Vol 2 (1727)A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted. - Francis QuarlesThere is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting. - Mark TwainI like to do all the talking myself. It saves time and prevents arguments. ~ Oscar Wilde, The Remarkable Rocket.An old saying has it that there are three things we should not discuss in polite company:...
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Talent - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-03-18 08:48:00
Don't hide your light, or you may burn yourself!Teach your students to use what talents they have; the woods would be silent if no bird sang except those that sing best.Those talents which God has bestowed upon us are not our own goods but the free gifts of God; and any persons who become proud of them show their ungratefulness. - John Calvin (1509-1564)Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.- DegasIt is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. - Jonathan Swift, 1667 - 1745
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Tact- christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-03-17 13:51:00
Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head.Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in. -Farmer's AlmanacA diplomat is a man who can convince his wife she'd look stout in a fur coat.Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie!'... till you can find a rock.Diplomacy - the art of letting someone have your way.Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

New Immigration Rules increase burden on Churches
2009-03-16 13:57:00
CCFON Article Published: 13th March 2009 says,'On 27th November 2008 the Home Office changed the rules for people entering the UK as ministers of religion, non-pastoral religious workers, visiting religious workers and voluntary workers, which will affect any Church or Christian organisation that brings in people from overseas to spend time as interns or church workers. Ministers of Religion (including missionaries and members of religious orders) now have to apply under Tier 2 of the new system. However, the migrants will need sponsoring organisations and these organisations, (i.e. churches or Christian organisations) will have to apply for sponsorship licences. Migrants who were classified under the old immigration rules as non-pastoral religious workers, visiting religious workers and voluntary workers will have to apply under Tier 5 of the new Points Based System as temporary workers in either the charity worker or religious worker category. This will mean that churches and Chr...
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Sympathy - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-03-16 08:31:00
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortune. Andre GideWhat people really need is a good listening to. Mary Lou CaseyCanvassing for the Tadcaster West ward in a Selby District Council by-election, I struck up a conversation with a local pensioner. She asked me which party I was standing for and when I told her the Conservatives she replied: "Oh my dear, I know just how you feel. I'm a Jehovah's Witness.JULIET PECK, The Times 6.5.98

Swearing - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-03-15 06:59:00
Profanity is the weapon of the witless.The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low, that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.--George Washington

Islamist insurgency threatens Christian community in Pakistan: Will you hel
2009-03-13 09:44:00
The Christian s of Pakistan , already vulnerable and beleaguered, are now in serious danger from a rising tide of radical and violent Islamism. As they fear for their very future, will you help to sustain them by your prayers and gifts? A Christian leader from Pakistan?s North West Frontier Province told Barnabas Fund last week how the Taliban are trying to enforce their interpretation of Islam on the whole nation. ?That is why the religious minorities fear for their safety and their future,? he said. He described how Christians, desperate to blend in for safety?s sake, are beginning to dress like Muslims and the Christian men to grow beards so that they look like Muslims. Parts of the North West Frontier Province, which borders Afghanistan, are now almo st ungovernable, as a wide range of militant Islamic groups are currently engaged in violent insurrections. Dr Patrick Sookhdeo, International Director of Barnabas Fund, pleads: ?Please pray at this time for the Christian minority in ...
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Student facing 20 years in hell
2009-03-12 15:59:00
Afghan court secretly sentences student whose cause was taken up by The Independent. His crime? To download article on women's rightsClick on tiltle for link.We need to establish a free and just Afghanistan . The barrier is ISLAM.
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English Premiership's top twenty to qualify for Champions League next seaso
2009-03-12 13:17:00
NewsBiscuit says,'The allocation of Champions League places to English clubs is to be increased from four to twenty next season it was revealed at a press conference this morning. "We want to maintain this competition's reputation for bringing together the elite in European football." explained a UEFA spokesman "Clearly clubs such as Middlesbrough, Fulham or Hull provide a better test for the top English teams than the likes of Real Madrid or Juventus. Consequently we have taken the decision to phase out the involvement of sides from countries such as Spain, Italy, France and Germany ...and the other European nations." During a heated 'questions and answers' session at the end of the press conference journalists challenged the spokesman over these plans, pointing out that a competition featuring solely the top English clubs would duplicate the Premiership and diminish the appeal of the Champions League. "On the contrary," the spokesman responded "this will continue to be a far m...
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Superstition - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-03-12 00:09:00
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.-Edmund Burke (1729-1797) _Reflections on the Revolution in France_ [1790]Superstition--what is it but distrust in God! -Mary Cholmondeley _Let Loose in Dracula's Brood_The inferior man?s reasons for hating knowledge are not hard to discern. He hates it because it is complex because it puts an unbearable burden upon his meager capacity for taking in ideas. Thus his search is always for short cuts. All superstitions are such short cuts.-H. L. Mencken, "Homo neanderthalis", The Baltimore Evening Sun, June 29, 1925Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember: it didn't work for the rabbit!= R. E. ShayNo one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread. -Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
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The Threat of the Homosexual Agenda to Your Freedoms
2009-03-10 17:01:00
By Robert A. J. Gagnon, Ph.D. http://robgagnon.net/HomosexualAgenda .htm March, 2009'Most people have not been closely following the implications of the promotion of the homosexual agenda in other Western countries, especially Canada and Sweden, or even in selected areas of the United States. Here are some results that would follow from granting homosexual marriage or its legal equivalent and making "sexual orientation" a specially protected civil rights category for "hate speech" and "non-discrimination" laws. (1) Go to jail for "hate speech." If a "Human Rights Commission" finds that you have made public statements that "incites hatred" against homosexual persons, you may go to prison. Ultimately, even ministers of the gospel will not be exempt. This past June in Sweden a Pentecostal minister, Ake Green, was sentenced to a month in prison for referring to homosexual practice in a sermon as a "horrible cancerous tumor in the body of society." The public prosecutor commented: "Collec...
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Suicide - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-03-10 08:08:00
Samson crushed himself and his enemies to death beneath the ruins of a building. He can only be excused on the grounds that the Spirit of the Lord, who wrought miracles through him, had bidden him to do so. But, apart from such men excepted by the command of a just law in general or of God, the very Source of justice, in a special case, any one who kills a human being, himself or another, is guilty of murder.Augustine, City of God, Book 1, Chapter 21, Image Books, Doubleday,1958:It is significant that in Holy Scripture no passage can be found enjoining or permitting suicide either in order to hasten our entry into immortality or to void or avoid temporal evils. God's command, "thou shalt not kill," is to be taken as forbidding self-destruction, especially as it does not add 'thy neighbor,' as it does when it forbids false witness, 'Thou shalt not bear false witness against they neighbor,' However, no one should think he is guiltless when be bears false witness against himself, ...
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Suffering- christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-03-09 20:34:00
If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding.-Yiddish ProverbWhen suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. -Chinua Achebe (1930-____): "Arrow of God," 1967.Suffering isn't ennobling; recovery is. - Christiaan H. BarnardWe are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.~Henry Ward BeecherIf souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.-Amy Carmichael (1867-1951)Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally more manageable than we had imagined.- Lesley HazeltonFew spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.- Thomas a KempisIn a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our dail...

Success - christiansquoting.org.uk
2009-03-08 21:22:00
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.Success is just a matter of luck -- ask any failure.A sense of duty and responsibility leads to a successful life... not brains....There are two rules for success in life.Rule 1: Don't tell people everything you know.The dictionary is the only place where SUCCESS comes before WORK.No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him. --Charles Kendall AdamsThe world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship. - Raul ArmestoKeep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. Roger Babson (1875-1967)There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule. --Samuel ButlerSuccess is having to worry about every damn thing in the ...

Exiled cleric preaches at London primary school
2009-03-08 00:11:00
Christian Institute reports.'A London primary school played host to a meeting of Muslims at which an extremist preacher called for Britain to become an Islam ic state.Omar Bakri spoke for 40 minutes by telephone from Lebanon, where he is in hiding from security forces seeking his arrest over his alleged involvement in training terrorists.He told the group gathered at Sudbury Primary School in North London:?The existence of the Islamic state is a necessity for justice to be established, a necessity for the people in order to keep away from personal desire and greed.?He added: ?I believe the way forward is Islam. It is time to go back to basics. I believe Islam is the future.?Previously, when asked if he condemned the followers of Osama bin Laden, the Syrian-born cleric said: ?I condemn Tony Blair. I condemn George Bush. I would never condemn Osama bin Laden or any Muslims.?Nicknamed ?the Tottenham Ayatollah? for his extremist activity in the Eighties and early Nineties in Britain, Mr...
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Parents face prosecution over 'gay' education class protest
2009-03-07 19:13:00
Sara Dixon in The Times'PARENTS who took their children out of school to prevent them being taught about lesbian, gay and transgender relationships are facing prosecution.Around 30 pupils from an east London primary school were absent from a week of special lessons to highlight non-heterosexual partnerships.To mark the event some students watched a special adaptation of Shakespeare?s Romeo and Juliet retitled Romeo and Julian.Stories covered in the lessons at George Tomlinson School included a fairytale about a prince who turns down three princesses before falling in love with one of their brothers and the tale of Roy and Silo - two male penguins who fall in love.The protesting parents said the content was more appropriate for secondary school pupils and now they face possible court action.Some of the parents said they informed the Leytonstone school they were removing their children for the week.Pervez Latif, whose children Saleh, ten, and Abdur-Rahim, nine, attend the school, sai...
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Jade's last act is to become a Christian
2009-03-07 19:04:00
Posted By: Damian Thompson at Mar 7, 2009 in The Telegraph 'Jade Goody became a Christian today, along with her two sons. Christians everywhere should be pleased that this controversial young woman's final public act was to receive the sacrament - mutually recognised by Protestants and Catholics - that admits a candidate to the Church.Jade's baptism (I prefer that term to the more secularised "christening") will, in the words of St Paul, effect and represent her union with Christ through which she participates in his death and resurrection. This was no formality: she has been reading the Bible, and she was determined to effect this last great change in her life - and it is a great change - before dying.Jade's entire adult life has been highlighted and distorted by exposure to the public. I was on duty as Telegraph TV critic for her very first appearance on Big Brother, and remember thinking that she was clearly too immature to handle the publicity she would receive.In the event,...

Tree-surgery for atheists
2009-03-07 07:10:00
This article also appeared on the Guardian?s website this week. You can comment on it either there or here.Recently, Colin Blakemore tried to argue that the relentless march of science was leaving precious little room in which religion could survive. He argued that belief in supernatural forces was of a piece with our mistaken belief in freewill. According to Blakemore, both are simply an ?illusion?. I think he is wrong. More than that, I think he believes he is as well, or at the very least, he behaves as if he does.In the course of his argument, Professor Blakemore quoted Pope Benedict XVI when he said, ?If, however, reason?becomes deaf to the great message that comes from the Christian faith and its wisdom, it will wither like a tree whose roots no longer reach the waters that give it life.? Blakemore then trivialises the issue by listing a series of scientists who were not Christians as if that was the Pontiff?s point.Rather, Pope Benedict was highlighting the fact that the bran...
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Plight of an Afghan Christian
2009-03-07 00:18:00
Family and friends have disowned him, and the British authorities are suspicious of his religious conversion by Reza Mohammadi guardian.co.uk, Friday 6 March 2009 07.00 GMT'Many people in Afghanistan have turned to the faith of Jesus Christ in recent years. A few of them have done so openly, though most have kept their conversion secret. The new converts have either been influenced by travelling and settling in Christian countries of the west or by the audacity of Christian missionaries who have travelled to Afghanistan.The converts number in thousands and congregate in secret churches in Afghanistan or in the blossoming Afghan church which has been set up in England. They all decided to turn away from the faith of their ancestors ? some in search of food; others in search of a better world and yet others in pursuit of a better faith. Accepting never-ending fear of rejection and animosity as a consequence of conversion, they have been born again in the Christian faith.Abdul Wakil S...
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Global Poll Shows Muslims Split on al-Qaida
2009-03-05 18:48:00
By Mohamed Elshinnawi Washington, D.C.04 March 2009 'A comprehensive new survey of Muslims around the world shows large majorities renounce al-Qaida's use of terrorism to pursue political aims. But equally large majorities say they support al-Qaida's goal of pushing the United States to withdraw its military forces from all Muslim countries. The survey by the nonprofit polling group, World Public Opinion, was conducted late last year using in-home interviews with several thousand residents of predominantly Muslim countries Egypt, Pakistan and Indonesia. Smaller samplings were conducted in Turkey, Jordan, the Palestinian Territories, Azerbaijan and Nigeria. In nearly all the nations polled, a significant majority of people - seven out of 10, on average - said they believe bombings, assassinations and violent attacks on civilians by al-Qaida and other Islamist groups are "not justified at all" as a means to achieve political or religious goals. But Steven Kull, the director of W...
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UK ban may have lifted Wilders
2009-03-05 18:39:00
Christian Institute says,'Geert Wilders has seen his party move to the top of the Dutch polls since the Home Office decided to ban him from the UK. According to reports from Holland, Geert Wilders? Freedom Party is now the country?s most popular party, moving ahead of the Christian Democrats.Mr Wilders found himself at the centre of an international free speech row when he was held at London?s Heathrow airport last month before being sent back to Holland.Britain?s Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, ordered the ban after deciding that his presence in the UK could pose a security risk.Critics accused the Government of pandering to fears that thousands of angry Muslims might have taken to the streets in protest.Mr Wilders has compared the Koran to Mein Kampf, and is currently facing prosecution in Dutch courts because of his comments about Islam .He was travelling to the UK to attend a screening in Parliament of his controversial film, Fitna, which draws parallels between radical Islam and ...
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?Home Educators Eat Babies? Says Worried NSPEC
2009-03-05 13:46:00
NewsBiscuit reports,'A recent press release from the NSPEC (National Society for the Prevention of Eating Children) warns that home educators are eating babies. DJ Petal, spokesperson from the NSPEC, states that it has come to their attention via well appointed rumour and official gossip mongering rolled out from London that home educators have been eating babies. Well known home education action group AHEm..well just a darn minute! were quick to challenge this and stated that there was no evidence that home educators were eating babies, but rather there was a strong indication that they were in fact less susceptible to baby eating than the general public. In response the NSPEC replied that as they could not actually see for themselves that home educators were not eating babies then they really must be baby eaters and submit to routine testing for infant ingestion. Further the NSPEC insisted CCTV be installed in every home just in case someone happened to feel peckish.Organised-Pau...
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