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Christian registrar wins discrimination case
2008-07-10 07:13:00
Christian Institute reports, "A Christian registrar from Islington who was bullied and threatened with the sack because of her religious beliefs on same sex unions has succeeded in her claims of unlawful discrimination by the council.In its unanimous judgment, the employment tribunal found that Miss Lillian Ladele was directly discriminated against by Islington Council after she asked to be allowed not to perform civil partnership registrations.Miss Ladele was supported by her Legal team, James Dingemans QC and Mark Jones of Ormerods solicitors. The case was financed by The Christian Institute?s Legal Defence Fund.The highly significant ruling confirmed that the various acts of direct discrimination committed against Miss Ladele by Islington Council on the grounds of her religious belief included: failing to consider her for promotion; deciding to discipline her and threatening her with dismissal; concluding she had committed gross misconduct; failing to redress allegations that she...
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Prostitution - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-07-09 16:37:00
Let the libertine reflect a moment on the situation of that woman who, being forsaken by her betrayer, is reduced to the necessity of turning prostitute for bread, and judge of the enormity of his guilt by the evils which it produces. It cannot be doubted but that numbers follow this dreadful course of life with shame, horror, and regret; but where can they hope for refuge? 'The world is not their friend, nor the world's law.' Their sighs, and tears, and groans are criminal in the eye of their tyrants, the bully and the bawd, who fatten on their misery, and threaten them with want or a gaol, if they show the least design of escaping from their bondage.- Samuel Johnson: Rambler #107 (March 26, 1751)Sir, a man will not, once in a hundred instances, leave his wife and go to a harlot, if his wife has not been negligent of pleasing. -- Samuel Johnson (Boswell: Life of Johnson)
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Prosperity - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-07-08 16:44:00
All sunshine makes desert.--Arab ProverbProsperity does not promote piety for a full belly stands secure and neglects ~God - Puritan ProverbProsperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Francis Bacon. 1561-1626.Is it, then, an exaggerated statement, that a time like the present is one of more danger than the time of oppression and persecution? We verily believe that, splendid as is the grace which carries the martyr to the stake, and sustains him in his baptism of fire, glorious as is the display of Divine power, in a church down-trodden but indomitable, persecuted but not consumed; the grace which would carry a church through such a season of continued prosperity and carnal ease as we are now experiencing, without a decay of spirituality, would be still more mighty. The church has often enjoyed the former grace; she has not yet attained unto the latter. R.L. DabneyIll fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumu...

Prophet - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-07-08 13:38:00
The Hebrew word, nabi, translated "prophet" in English Bibles, has the connotation of "message bearer". The prophets were men called by God to serve as His messengers to a stubborn and unheeding people. They were always careful to point out that they were not voicing their own wisdom. Their warnings, entreaties, and promises were always prefaced by the awesome proclamation: "Thus says the Lord..." When the prophets did engage in prognostication, they usually were concerned with events which were fairly close at hand, such as the Assyrian conquest of Israel and the Babylonian conquest of Judah (both of which they foretold with deadly accuracy). But occasionally a prophet's vision ranged farther into the future, to the day when God would enter into a new covenant with his rebellious children. The hope of reconciliation was often linked with the coming of a very particular person, a Messiah or Savior. What made the prophets so sure that they had a right -- nay, a duty, to speak in the...
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Progress - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-07-03 18:43:00
Do you know what the largest room in the world is? The room for improvement.As of 1945 -- the year in which more people were killed violently, more buildings destroyed, more homes burned than any other year in history -- World Wars 1 and 2 had made a mockery of the nineteenth-century idea of progress, the notion that things were getting better and would continue to do so.-- Stephen E. Ambrose, "Citizen SoldiersIf you don't like my opinion of you, you can always improve - BRILLIANT, ASHLEIGH (1933-)I am afraid I believe we delude ourselves if we think that humanity is becoming ever more civilised, ever more sophisticated and ever more reasonable. It's simply not the case. --Charles, Prince of WalesIt is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. -- Christina, Queen of SwedenIf there is no struggle there is no progress. -- Frederick DouglassExactly a week before the final treaty with England was signed, Franklin saw Paris's first ball...
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Paper, paper everywhere!
2008-07-03 06:35:00
BBC says, "Police sergeants are afraid to challenge scruffy constables because they fear being accused of bullying, an official report suggests.The Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) report also discloses that nearly half a frontline sergeant's time is spent on paperwork.The HMIC suggests sergeants in England and Wales are issued with a set of standards to improve effectiveness."More paper to improve the glut? I ask in my profession, "Do you want me to do the work or to write about it?" I am told to record all manner of things in case of possible litigation. I live in the real world, not the Planet Fear. My records are of the minimalist school.
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Profanity - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-07-02 22:17:00
Profanity is the attempt of a lazy and feeble mind to express itself forcefully.Profanity is the weapon of the witless.In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. Mark Twain
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Reading in the past year
2008-07-01 21:45:00
83 this year, 127 books last year and 97 the year before. Perhaps I have been more on the web this tear with my new Macbook and then Facebook.1. History 18 (14 4th, 32 1st)2. Biography 12 (16 3rd, 20 2nd)3= Novels 11 (34 1st, 3 7th= )3= Theology 11 ( 8 5th= 7 4th)5. Commentaries 8 1 (1 12= 0 14th=)6. Islam 6 (8 5= 9 3rd)7= Devotional 3 (3 8= 3 7th)7= Travel 3 (1 12th 0)9. Trivia 2 ( 3 8th= 2 10th=)10= Psychology 1 (2 19= 2 10th=)10= Politics 1 (6 7th 4 6th)10= Humour 1 (1 12th 5 5th)10= Mission 1 (0 9th 2 10th= )10= Ethics 115= Letters 0 (1 12= 1 14th=) Sport 0 (1 2= 1 14th=)) Quotations 0 (2 10th= 2 10=) Diaries 0 ...
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Books read in July 2008
2008-07-01 20:19:00
1. A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage A fascinating social history of beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea and Coca Cola. How these drinks were part of history and influenced it from the ancient world through to globalisation is well told and most informative. There is a section on how these drinks would have tasted originally.
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Procrastination - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-06-27 05:55:00
Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off indefinitely.The hardest work in the world is that which should have been done yesterday.Someday is not a day of the week.We don't have anything as urgent as manyana in Ireland --Stuart BanksThey said procrastination wasThe source of all my sorrowI don't know what that big word means --I'll look it up tomorrowProcrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.Defer not till to-morrow to be wise,To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise.William Congreve. 1670-1729. Letter to Cobham.As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration, and every day brings its task, which if neglected, is doubled on the morrow. But he that has already trifled away those months and years, in which he should have laboured, must remember that he has now only a part of that of which the whole is little; and that since the few moments remaining...

Problems - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-06-26 15:19:00
A good scapegoat is nearly as welcome as a solution to the problem. I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. Paul Anderson You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them. --Peter Taylor Forsyth (1848-1921) The solution of every problem is another problem. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just insures that the hardest part will be left when you're most tired. Get the big one done- it's downhill from then on. Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993)"Quotable Business," ed. Louis E. Boone, 1992 When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one. - Dean Rusk (1909-____) On the Cuban missile crisis, in "Look," 6 Sep 1966.
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Harman pushes discrimination plan
2008-06-26 14:58:00
BBC says, "Equality minister Harriet Harman has set out plans to allow firms to discriminate in favour of female and ethnic minority job candidates. She said firms should be able to choose a woman over a man of equal ability if they wanted to - or vice versa." So it is OK to discriminate against men in general and the majority community in particular. Harman's post should be renamed as the minister for inequality and social engineering.
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More from my favorite Anglican leader
2008-06-25 00:25:00
Telegraph reports, 24/06/2008 "The Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, claimed the declining importance of the church was creating a "double jeopardy" situation where faith was being challenged at a time when society would most benefit.He said believers needed to "recover their nerve" and spread the Gospel again.The outspoken bishop, who earlier this week told those who tolerate homosexuality in the clergy to repent, also said he was "frustrated" that decisions which had been made in the church had not been stuck to.Dr Nazir-Ali was greeted with a standing ovation as he gave a speech to a breakaway summit in Jerusalem of more than 1,000 traditionalists from across the Anglican Communion who oppose gay priests and the blessing of same-sex unions.He did not say that divisions over sexuality would lead to a schism in Anglicanism, and referred to unity being a "very precious thing".Instead he called on those in the church to concentrate on mission ? trying to convert thos...
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Probability - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-06-24 23:53:00
Heisenberg may have slept here.
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Privacy - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-06-24 23:52:00
The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected. Anton ChekhovIf you would be known and not know, vegetate in a village. If you would know and not be known, live in a city. Charles Caleb ColtonWe are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government. -William G. DouglasI never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference. Greta GarboThings have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade the sphere of private life.- Viscount MelbourneThe poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter, - but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the thresh...
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Priorities - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-06-24 15:38:00
The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life coming flowing in. C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)No one can maintain more than three priorities. If you have a job you care about, that's a priority. If you have a family, that's a priority. Which leaves one more. Maybe it's staying in shape, maybe it's volunteering at your church. Most people understand this intuitively. But they keep overcommiting themselves and overcomplicating their lives. So my advice is simple: figure out what your priorities are, and say "no" to everything else. --Elaine St. JamesNever let the urgent crowd out the important... Kelly Catlin Walker

Principles - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-06-24 15:37:00
principlesIt's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.Conviction and pragmatism are not incompatible. - Brenda Maddox, Maggie the First Lady, p130Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. -- Grouch Marx
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Monkey business
2008-06-23 23:53:00
BBC says, " A group of Indians are planning to present a statue of the revered Indian monkey God, Hanuman, to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The group decided to order the idol after they read a magazine report saying that Mr Obama carried a good luck 'monkey king' charm. Hindus revere monkeys which they believe are descendents of the monkey God Hanuman. The two-foot tall, 15kg gold-polished, brass idol has been made as a present for Mr Obama because "he will be good for India if he becomes the next president," according to Brij Mohan Bhama, leader of the group. "We have heard that he carries a small monkey charm in his pocket. So he is a devotee of Hanuman. That's why we want to present him with this idol," he said. "So has Obama any Christian principles? Not if he carries charms and receives idols. Will he accept the idol and lose Christiam votes or take it to gain Hindu ones?
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Pride - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-06-23 16:07:00
Pride is what we have. Vanity is what others have.A man is usually as young as he feels, but seldom as important.Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride. Jonathan Aitken in The Tablet. 12 June 1999'I will cut out the cancer of bent and twisted journalism with the simple sword of truth'. These were insensitive words of pride which came back to haunt me. Jonathan Aitken in The Tablet. 12 June 1999Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.---Augustine (354-430)There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. --Edward G. Bulwer-LyttonSpiritual pride in its own nature is so secret, that it is not so well discerned by immediate intuition on the thing itself, as by the effects and fruits of it; some of which I would mention, together with the contrary fruits of pure christian humility. Spiritual pride disposes to speak ofother persons' sins,...
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Presuppositions - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-06-23 13:59:00
The mind of modern man is a curious mixture of decayed Calvinism and diluted Buddhism; and he expresses his philosophy without knowing that he holds it. We [i.e., Catholics] say what it is natural for us to say; but we know what we are saying; therefore it is assumed that we are saying it for effect. He says what it is natural for him to say; but he does not know what he is saying, still less why he is saying it . . . He is just as partisan; . . . just as much depending on one doctrinal system as distinct from another. But he has taken it for granted so often that he has forgotten what it is. So his literature does not seem to him partisan, even when it is. But our literature does seem to him propagandist, even when it isn't. G K Chesterton {The Thing, NY: Sheed & Ward, 1929, p. 120}The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the...

Blaming
2008-06-23 01:27:00
The Telegraph says, "Gordon Brown will today blame Margaret Thatcher for Britain's low rates of social mobility and accuse the former Conservative Prime Minister of creating a lost generation by "denying many children the chance to progress".The social mobility reduced by Maggie was her support for comprehensive secondary schools when Education Secretary. Grammar schools gave a meritocratic pursuit of excellence. Comprehensives are the nurseries of mediocrity.

Bishops criticise Anglican leader
2008-06-23 00:02:00
BBC says, " Conservative Anglican leaders have opened talks in Jerusalem on the future of the Church with criticism of its leader, the Archbishop of Canterbury.The Archbishops of Nigeria and Uganda attacked his failure to discipline the US Episcopal Church for consecrating an openly gay bishop in 2003.The 300 bishops are meeting to discuss the future of the worldwide Anglican Communion, amid fears of a split.Many of them say liberals are rewriting the Bible to fit modern trends."The Communion is in a state of brokenness," said Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola at the opening of the Global Anglican Future Conference (Gafcon), which brings together conservative Anglican leaders, many from developing countries. BBC religious affairs correspondent Robert Piggot, who is at the conference, says the talks are in effect a rival to next month's Lambeth Conference - a 10-yearly gathering of Anglican bishops from all over the world.Many attending the Jerusalem talks have threatened to boycott...
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German Court Jailing Homeschool Parents
2008-06-22 17:41:00
HSLDA reports, "On Wednesday, June 18, a district court in the German state of Hesse sentenced Jurgen and Rosemary Dudek each to three months in prison simply because they homeschool their seven children.HSLDA condemns this court ruling in the strongest possible terms. Good parents who love and care for their children should never be sentenced to prison for doing what is best for their children. Germany is a Western nation and should know better.HSLDA will be helping the Dudeks with their appeals, but German courts have so far consistently ruled against homeschoolers.More information will be forthcoming as this story develops, and we will keep you informed. In the meantime, please remember the Dudeks in your thoughts and prayers. The family welcomes notes of encouragement which can be sent to:Family DudekFriedrichstr. 637293 Archfeld?GERMANY
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Presumption - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-06-20 16:50:00
If thou shalt remain faithful and zealous in labour, doubt not that God shall be faithful and bountiful in rewarding thee. It is thy duty to have a good hope that thou wilt attain the victory: but thou must not fall into security lest thou become slothful or lifted up. Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471)

Presbyterian - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-06-20 16:49:00
I started life as a Presbyterian , where "You may be seated" is one of the most exciting part of those servicesQUESTION: What's the difference between a Presbyterian and a Baptist?ANSWER: A Presbyterian will speak to you in a liquor store.He advised that Methodists be accepted as jurymen because their religious emotions can be transmuted into love and charity; but warned against taking Presbyterians because they knew right from wrong. -- Harry Golden, _For 2¢ Plain_ (ON CLARENCE DARROW)

POLICE STATE, GERMANY
2008-06-20 07:10:00
Hitler passed a law outlawing homeschooling. Germany still keeps this Nazi law.June 18, 2008 Bob Unruhreports in WorldNetDaily "A mother and father who have been homeschooling their children each have been ordered by a German judge to serve three-month prison terms after a prosecutor said he was unhappy with fines the family paid and he wanted the parents jailed.The sentences for Juergen and Rosemarie Dudek were announced in Germany's equivalent of a district court today in the state of Hesse, according to a staff attorney for the Home School Legal Defense Association. The group, the premier homeschooling advocacy organization in the world, has been monitoring and helping in the Dudeks' case since before a federal prosecutor announced his intention more than a year ago to see the parents behind bars."Words escape me, it's unconscionable, incredible, shocking," HSLDA staff attorney Mike Donnelly told WND after he got word of the sentence. "They'll appeal of course."He said the pr...
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Prejudice- christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-06-19 01:07:00
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. - Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) "Patterns of Culture," ch. 1, 1934he eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -- Henri BergsonPrejudice s, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones." - Charlotte Bronte, Jane EyreWho needs debate, the Left rationalizes, when those who disagree are bigoted, homophobic, sexist pigs? Dealing with their arguments is a just a waste of time. In this model, dissenters begin to look less and less like members of society with a right to their own opinions and more and more like speed bumps on the road to social change. -- Tammy Bruce, _The New Thought Police_, 2001Birds are taken with pipes that imitate their own voices, and men with those sayings that are most agreeable to their own opin...

The dependency culture
2008-06-18 00:05:00
I have now come across three people I know who have been told by people in authority that they should stop work and be better off.The first is a single mother of three working part time and behind with council tax due to the mistakes of her local housing benefit department. She stopped work. For her work was a fulfilling therapy which got her out of the house. When she went back to part time work she immediately received a bill for all her tax debt from the council. What a disincentive to gainful employment.The second is a man working on low pay for a charity. With a growing family and money very short he sought help and was told he should stop work and be better off on benefits.The third is another part time worker. Once again, returning to work meant a mess up with housing benefits and a demand for council tax. A court summons resulted. She went to contest it and at the court asked for a duty solicitor. An unidentified woman came and started asking her questions. It turned out she...
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Predictions- christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-06-17 23:52:00
The proof of Trotsky's farsightedness is that not one of his predictions has yet come trueIsn't it strange that the same people that laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously?Q: How can you make God laugh? A: Tell Him your plans for the future.I've gone to hundreds of fortune-tellers' parlours, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her. New York City Detective
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Muslim children in Britain 'brought up to hate their homeland'
2008-06-17 15:29:00
Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent of the Telegraph reports on 11/06/2008"Radical British Muslim s have formed chatrooms to discuss adopting orphans and bringing up children to be Islam ic fighters, a study has found.The teachings of Omar Bakri Mohammed are popular on radical sitesDiscussions on a number of radical websites have asked how children should be brought up to be "mujahideen" and whether they should be pulled out of mainstream schools.Other participants boast of how their children threaten to kill "kuffar" [non-believers] and complain that the Shakespeare being taught in schools is "full of homosexuality, fornication and adultery."The Centre for Social Cohesion says radical Muslims are using the internet to create a "virtual Islamic caliphate" and calls on the government to launch a crack down.According to the Centre for Social Cohesion, a think tank which has been monitoring radical websites, users of a site called www.islambase.co.uk discussed the possibility of adopt...
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