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Great/inspirational quotes

Our God never has a headache. He is never worried as we worry when our plans go wrong, for His plans never do. In the working out of the divine plans, there are no contingencies. All history is pregnant with the guiding counsel of the all wise God. His purposes never fail or cave in. They never collapse. No disasters ever attend the undertakings of God. He is sovereign Lord. An experiment is an experiment because of its possible failure. God never fails, hence He makes no experiments.

Alan Burns (1884-1929)
Faith Fellowship Magazine
Volume 58, Number 1
 
Might be a repeat . . .

“I agree with Bachofen: there is a direct correlation between, on the one had, the so-called advance from supposed barbarism to what we term modern civilization, and on the other hand diminishing respect for women on the part of males. Just about the only consistently positive advance for women gained in the progress of civilization has been the power they wield due to the monopoly of monogamy.”

Winston Borden, 2011
 
"Philosophy and religion have robbed us of more vital values than any other foes. One denies Christ His place as the Complement of God. The other refuses to accept Him as the Completeness of the saints. A vain philosophy is seeking to eliminate God and His Christ from the universe. An empty religious ritual is seeking to displace the work of Christ. We may individually not go to either of these extremes, yet in all of us lies the tendency to put reason and religion in the place of God's Anointed."

A.E. Knoch
 
“A distinguishing characteristic of our nation – and a great strength – is the development of our institutions within the concept of individual worth and dignity. Our schools are among the guardians of that principle. Consequently, and deliberately, their control and support throughout our history have been – and are – a state and local responsibility. The American idea of universal public education was conceived as necessary in a society dedicated to the principles of individual freedom, equality and self-government. Thus was established a fundamental element of the American public school system – local direction by boards of education responsible immediately to the parents of children. Diffusion of authority among tens of thousands of school districts is a safeguard against centralized control and abuse of the educational system that must be maintained. We believe that to take away the responsibility of communities and states in educating our children is to undermine not only a basic element of our freedom but a basic right of our citizens.”

Dwight David Eisenhower, during his term as 34th President of the United States, quoted in the February 9, 1955 edition of The New York Herald Tribune
 
"What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" (Romans 8:31).

Too often the God who is preached from our pulpits, and who inhabits our Christian imagination, is a God who at root is against us rather than for us, who is waiting for an opportunity to condemn or to cast us off, rather than to embrace and restore us.

Trevor Hart
Home
 
“There is now an entirely new language of good and evil, originating in an attempt to get ‘beyond good and evil’ and preventing us from talking with any conviction about good and evil anymore. The new language is that of value relativism, and it constitutes a change in our view of things moral and political as great as the one that took place when Christianity replaced Greek and Roman paganism.”

Allan Bloom, from his groundbreaking 1987 book, The Closing of the American Mind
 
“When World War II broke out, children were told that family members in the service might never come home, and we were put through repeated air drills. We took this all without ‘counseling’ or noticeable psychological trauma. However, when war erupted recently in the Persian Gulf, school administrators were whipped into a frenzy of emotional support aimed at making sure that youngsters didn’t have their psyches injured. Even worse, the tidal wave of psychological counseling swept over adults, sometimes reaching farcical proportions. A force of eight thousand psychologists announced that they were ready to shore up the fragile emotional foundations of our nation. This sets bad patterns for both kids and adults. Courage and stability are largely learned attributes picked up from role models. If psychological volatility is viewed as socially acceptable, we simply will get more of it. The impact is being felt in the workplace. Children don’t grow up to be productive employees when they are raised with the wrong models with regard to emotional stability. The situation has deteriorated to the point where the prerogative to flip out is now an employee fringe benefit. When we encounter emotional problems, we should try harder to tough them out before pouring dollars into the pockets of psychologists.”

Ronald Kohl, 1991

[Now, 29 years later, are we seeing in covid hysteria the fruits of raising an entire generation to be snowflakes and Chicken Littles?]
 
From The-More-Things-Change-The-More-They-Stay-The-Same File: one student’s take on the Cooperative Learning fad in public education: “I am not a pessimist. As a matter of fact, I have tried my hardest to make this new teaching method work to my benefit! At 16 I am finding myself frustrated with my school’s teaching staff and their superiors. We work in groups to teach each other the topic of the day. Well, hallelujah! Why not just fire the teachers and have the kids take over the schools? For those of us who do plan on attending higher education and work hard in school, we find ourselves putting up with others who won’t teach us their part of the topic while we waste valuable class time to teach them our part. To top it off, we then must go home and learn the part we were supposed to be taught by our peers, but weren’t.”

January 21, 1993 issue of the Lansing (Michigan) State Journal
 
"We are dying creatures who cannot escape death. Truly all mankind must die."

– Robert McMahon
 
Keith Martin said:
"We are dying creatures who cannot escape death. Truly all mankind must die."

– Robert McMahon
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Dude! This is supposed to be inspirational quotes. :cool:

Something about being raised incorruptible....even after we inevitably put down our mortal tabernacle might be more in keeping with the thread title. ;)

Edited to add my hubby likes to tell insurance people that he thinks people are just trying to prevent the inevitable.
 
Keith Martin said:
"We are dying creatures who cannot escape death. Truly all mankind must die."

– Robert McMahon
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Joleneakamama said:
Dude! This is supposed to be inspirational quotes. :cool:

Something about being raised incorruptible....even after we inevitably put down our mortal tabernacle might be more in keeping with the thread title. ;)

Edited to add my hubby likes to tell insurance people that he thinks people are just trying to prevent the inevitable.
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And I will add that I find that quote tremendously inspirational. It is only death that gives us the potential for fully appreciating life. Knowing that death is inevitable inspires me to savor every moment.

The most uninspiring thing to me is watching people who believe they have the power to extend life or defeat death. Only God can and will do that, but the life we have here this side of Heaven is decidedly finite.

Besides, if you've ever spent much time at what we formerly called old folks' homes, that death is inevitable is an even further blessing. Can you imagine what we would all end up smelling like if we never died in these decaying bodies?
 
"Everything is beautiful."

Ray Stevens
 
“The techniques of brainwashing developed in totalitarian countries are routinely used in psychological conditioning programs imposed on American school children. These include emotional shock and desensitization, psychological isolation from sources of support, stripping away defenses, manipulative cross-examination of the individual’s underlying moral values, and inducing acceptance of alternative values by psychological rather than rational means. These techniques are not confined to separate courses or programs . . . [and] are not isolated idiosyncrasies of particular teachers. They are products of numerous books and other ‘educational’ material in programs packaged by organizations that sell such curricula to administrators and teach the techniques to teachers. Some packages even include instructions on how to deal with parents or others who object. Stripping away psychological defenses can be done through assignments to keep diaries to be discussed in the group and through role-playing assignments, both techniques used in the original brainwashing programs in China under Mao.”

Dr. Thomas Sowell, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute, in the February 1, 1993, issue of Forbes magazine
 
Keith Martin said:
If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practiced it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England blamed persecution in the Romish church, but practiced it upon the Puritans. These found it wrong in the Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here [England] and in New England.

Benjamin Franklin
Toleration
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True, except for the Anabaptist's. And probably the Celtic Church. And various other churches persecuted by the Romans.

steve said:
So true.
They only want the loving G-d, not one that they should fear.
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This is symptomatic of the state of modern man and the family. Most people grew up with a father that was either fearful or loving but not both and possibly even neither. They have no concept of feeling safe in the arms of something scary.
 
“Public education is the training ground, the hothouse, the farm team, for the next generation of liberals. How else to inculcate multiculturalism, political correctness and historical revisionism into children? How else to drum into them the view that they evolved from slime, that sex is an intramural sport and that the liberal agenda is best? Children might not be expected to encounter these ‘truths’ on their own and are even less likely to learn them in private schools, especially private, religious schools where a real education, a moral conscience and wisdom can still be found. Public education is not about education. In too many instances it is about propagandizing and controlling the minds and hearts (and bodies) of the next generation. Without public schools, liberalism would qualify as an endangered species. With them, liberals hope to train sufficient numbers of left-thinking drones to replace them when they are gone.”

Cal Thomas, January 10, 1993, in his Los Angeles Times Syndicate column

[Clearly, their hope has now become a foregone conclusion.]
 
May be another repeat:

“There are two ways to conquer a nation: kill ‘em, or take away everything that defines who they are.”

Pete Goodfeather, in 2008 film Older Than America
 
“Although I have always suspected that life at its best is pushing the stone farther up the hill than anyone could have logically expected, eventually, over my dead body, perhaps we will all be one with one another, at ease on our planet, tensions gone. But when there is no more guilt, mystery, conflict among us because we owe nothing, hide nothing – what will we dream of in the long days on the flattened hill?”

Margot Hentoff
 
“It has yet to be shown that any society can sustain stable high fertility beyond two generations of mass [state] schooling.”

John C. Caldwell (Theory of Fertility Decline, Academic Press, 1982)
 
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