ON FACEBOOK
“There seems to be a serious ‘glitch’ in the fabric of our space-time continuum: the people who post on Facebook know everything about everything, whereas national leaders and politicians apparently know nothing. This is quite the wrong way around!”
FREEDOM OF CHOICE
“Quick! Turn! Choose God! He longs for your love! He loves you still! It’s what free will is for!”
ON DIFFERENCES OF PERSPECTIVE
“However we may choose to view it, theft, whether in the personal, business, governmental or international sphere, is a matter of indifference to many: they can take it or leave it!”
ON THE MORALITY OF THE WEST
“Just as in the Wild West, blackening a man’s name by portraying him in a black hat, reduces him to a target for every sharp-shooting bounty hunter in town – and we become ‘accessories before the fact’ to every kind of crime against the person. Can this be how the West is won!”
ON SURPRISINGLY ABSENT PROVERBS
“Sticks and stones may bruise my bones, but name-calling destroys me.”
ON BURYING OURSELVES IN OUR OWN FOLLY
“The tragedy of humanity is not only that we are living on the ash heap of our own destructive waste and continue to generate it; but also that we live on the ash heap of many generations of every kind of selfishness – and to this day we continue to build it with our arrogance and our ambitions. Who can rescue us!”
ON THE BIBLE
“We would know nothing of Christianity or of Christ without the Bible, yet it’s possibly the world’s least-read bestseller, even amongst Christians. This is completely back to front!”
ON WESTERN CIVILIZATION
“In our fast-moving culture of free choice, we have turned many a corner, stood on many a precipice and taken many a giant leap forward. Regretfully, we would appear to have made all the right moves but not necessarily in the right order.”
ON UNITED STATES PRESIDENTS
“Those who lead nations find they have far more influence than they know how to use, and far less power than they had wanted. Those who watch those who lead nations find they have far more answers than either influence or power can apply.”
ON BRITISH VALUES
“In times past it was said ‘Britannia rules the waves.’ In our own day quite the reverse applies.”
ON TOLERANCE
“Tolerance of the tolerant but intolerance of the untolerated is a tolerance not to be tolerated except by the truly intolerant.”
ON WISDOM AND ART
“Be encouraged my son! To know absolutely nothing is an art in itself.”
ON INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL
“It is as well to remember that only the birds can wing it.”
ON TRUE CREATIONISM
“It has been well observed that when ambition takes us to the very top we find there is nothing there. But when we serve the lives of others we create a world. This was the career path of Jesus!”
ON FAILING TO THINK RIGOROUSLY
“As in sky-diving so in life. Only when parachutes are tested by trial and error will it be wise to make it up as we go along.”
ON HYPOCRISY
“As carpets are very thin on the ground in the lounge and in the open field, wisdom and goodness may be neither here nor there.”
ON ESTABLISHING THE TRUTH
“As shooting the rapids will kill no rivers, nailing the arguments will butter no parsnips.”
ON HAVING MISTRESSES
“Of all the mistresses that visit us to break up the happy home, Miss Money, Miss Sex and Miss Power do most damage. But the mother of all mistresses must be looked for in quite another direction, for Miss Self occupies the master bedroom!”
ON CRACKPOT THEORIES AND THE THEOLOGY OF HAPPINESS
“Where proud Philosophy and Psychoceramics meet there may be genius, but where Humble Repentance meets The Foolishness of God there is joy in heaven!”
ON SINGLE ISSUE POLITICS
“To shake up the present and transform the future, first re-write the past.”
Trying to Think Christianly 