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With New Year resolutions in mind: Great ideas need landing gears as well as wings. C D Jackson What is the use of travelling at a fast speed when you are going in the wrong direction? Bernhard Langer Most of us would get along well if we used the advice we give to others. Anon...

Thoughts on the Incarnation The Son came out from the Father to help us to come out from the world; He descended to us to enable us to ascend to Him.  Anthony of Padua Christ became what we are that He might make us what He is.  Athanasius I hope your Christmas has had a...

With All Saints Day (1st November) in mind…. With Remembrance Sunday (11th November) in mind… With ‘Christ the King’ Sunday (- last Sunday before Advent, 25th November) in mind… Some miscellaneous observations on faith and on life ** With All Saints Day (1st November) in mind…. For the early Christians koinonia was not the frilly...

Some quotes with Harvest in mind… Some quotes with All Hallows Eve in mind….. Some miscellaneous observations on our Christian faith… Some miscellaneous observations on daily life… ** Editor:  Some quotes with Harvest in mind… Gratitude is the heart’s memory – French proverb A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent...

When you try and do God’s work We do the works, but God works in us the doing of the works. – St Augustine of Hippo He who labours as he prays lifts up his heart to God with his hands. –  St Bernard of Clairvaux ** Reflections on being a Christian The humble knowledge...

Editor:   Some observations on life as a Christian…. Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to McDonald’s makes you a hamburger. A coincidence is when God performs a miracle and decides to remain anonymous. Did it ever occur to you that nothing occurs to God? Here are two things I...

Quotes of the month   Some spiritual observations Some miscellaneous observations on life: ** Some spiritual observations: ‘I am sorry’ and ‘I forgive you’ are the hardest things a human being can ever say – but also, the most liberating.  When the wars and scandals are over, those words can rebuild nations.  Tim Stanley Every...

Quotes Editor:  with our Christian faith in mind… The noblest revenge is to forgive.  Thomas Fuller All but God is changing day by day.  Charles Kingsley We expect our young people to lay down their lives for our nation, but most of us are not willing to lay down our bank accounts for God.  Anon...

Editor: 10th May is Ascension Day…. Hail the day that sees him rise To his throne above the skies; Christ, a while to mortals given, Re-ascends his native heaven. Charles Wesley Astronauts sink into insignificance beside this ascension!  V Havner Christ was taken up into heaven, not to enjoy blessed rest at a distance from...

Editor: The American evangelist Billy Graham died in late February. Here we look back on some of his notable quotes… Some of Billy Graham’s notable quotes I’ve read the last page of the Bible, it’s all going to turn out all right. It is the Holy Spirit’s job to convict, God’s job to judge and...

Quotes Editor:  Some of Billy Graham’s notable quotes Editor:  With Easter and the Resurrection in mind…. Editor:  with the end of one tax year and the start of a new one in mind….   ** Editor:    The American evangelist Billy Graham died in late February.  Here we look back on some of his notable quotes…...

QUOTES of the month Lent is a time for spiritual self-examination… And then Holy Week… Miscellaneous observations on life ** Lent is a time for spiritual self-examination….where do we stand with God? Holiness is not something to be received in a meeting; it is a life to be lived and to be lived in detail. ...