“God deliver me from my friends! I’ll take care of my enemies myself.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]
“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
Widely available online attributed to J.R.R. Tolkien, which is partly true, but more properly it is the character Sador to Túrin in The Children of Húrin acccording to this commendably persnickety website: https://thetolkienist.com/2014/10/10/thanks-babble-get-10-tolkien-quotes-wrong/
“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
Marcus Aurelius, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM “ in Epoch Times email teaser Dec. 17, 2022 without further attribution.
“Every Whit Sunday, Christians are reminded that the day of Pentecost is a historical fact – just as much as Christ’s birth, his miracles, his death on the cross, and literal physical resurrection, and his ascension. This needs to be emphasized more than ever today – our gospel and our salvation is not a mere teaching or a philosophy, but primarily a series of acts, with meaning and purpose. We should never lose sight of the historicity of what we are considering here. So what we read in Acts 2 is something that literally happened in the way that is described. Luke was primarily an historian and his concern was to give to Theophilus, to whom he had already written his gospel, a further account of the continuing action and activity of the Lord Jesus Christ; and so he is dealing here with something that belongs solidly and purely to the realm of history. What happened in Acts 2, as the records makes so plain and clear, was that the early church was baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
Martyn Lloyd-Jones Joy Unspeakable: Power & Renewal in the Holy Spirit
“If it were not for lawyers, we wouldn’t need them.”
– A.K. Giffin in The New Official Rules, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail June 18, 2007
In my latest Loonie Politics column I note the irony of people who spent decades destigmatizing everything and saying we should all do whatever we feel like now complaining that nowadays we all just do whatever we feel like.
“My personal favourite [among her late father’s many fine turns of phrase]… his technical term for fixing any appliance by means of a quick smack on the top or side: ‘Repair Scheme Number One.’”
Jean Mills in Globe & Mail June 18, 2004
“Even given his concern for sparrows, the likelihood of God being concerned with hijabs seems small…. What must God think of all this [the Asmahan Mansour controversy]? Of one thing I am certain: whatever he turns out to be will bear no resemblance to the god imagined by any of the religions I know, ancient or modern, mono- or polytheistic. My belief in God is persistent and I pray. I know not to what I pray – Paul Johnson’s wonderful book The Quest for God tells me that my prayers are to a God that hears everything, but while I want to believe that, I have great difficulty doing so…. There are few things as ridiculous as a bunch of apes trying to be spiritual. If eventually we get to meet or understand the nature of God before or after our death, I think the likelihood of his concerns overlapping those of any religion to be very small.”
Barbara Amiel in Maclean’s March 19, 2007, very certain that everyone else’s certainty about God is laughably wrong and hers is totally right.