A Collection of Some of my Favorite Quotes
For me, the life of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, whose birth we celebrate today, is an inspiration and an anchor in my life. A role‐model of reconciliation and forgiveness, He stretched out His hands in love, acceptance and healing. Christ’s example has taught me to seek to respect and value all people of whatever faith or none.’ Queen Elizabeth 2014.
‘God sent His only Son “to serve, not to be served.” He restored love and service to the centre of our lives in the person of Jesus Christ’. Queen Elizabeth 2012.
‘God sent into the world a unique person – neither a philosopher nor a general (important though they are) – but a Saviour, with the power to forgive. Forgiveness lies at the heart of the Christian faith. It can heal broken families, it can restore friendships and it can reconcile divided communities. It is in forgiveness that we feel the power of God’s love.’ Queen Elizabeth 2011.
‘For me the teachings of Christ and my own personal accountability before God provide a framework in which I try to lead my life. God sent His only Son “to serve, not to be served”. I, like so many of you, have drawn great comfort in difficult times from Christ’s words and example.’ Queen Elizabeth 2000.
"The Family is not only an institution, but a foundation, the foundation of nearly all institutions." G.K. Chesterton
On the belief that career or job are the fundamental purpose of life: “That’s not true. The most important thing in life is your family, your relationship (husband/wife) and your children.” Jordan Peterson
“The marriage relationship is a reflection of the sanctification process that God works into our lives to accomplish His purposes. We need our rough edges rubbed off, and the Lord uses marriage to do it. If you seek what’s best for we, instead of only me, you’ll become more selfless, more loving – more like Christ.” Focus on the Family
"If you want to have a good relationship embed it in the truth." Jordan Petersen
"Who says that a working mother's evening time with her children is necessarily of greater quality than it would have been if she remained at home all day? Her fatigue would make the opposite more likely." Focus on the Family
"Fear not tomorrow, God is already there." Ruth Graham
"If you had known what an unutterable sinner you are, you will thank God, that when He loves, He finds the reason of His love in Himself and not in you." Archibald Brown
"We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God," Abraham Lincoln
"Australia is not a secular country — it is a free country. This is a nation where you have the freedom to follow any belief system you choose. Secularism is just one. It has no greater claim than any other on our society." Scott Morrison (Australian Prime Minister)
"It's better to live courageously than cowardly—everyone knows that." Jordan Peterson
"Let it not be said I was silent when they needed me." William Wilberforce. (We can easily say this of the children today as Wilberforce said it of the slaves in his day).
"Keep up the fight, bring it to your schools. You don't have to be indoctrinated by these (left-wing) teachers who are trying to sell you on Socialism from birth. You don't have to do it. Because you can think for yourselves." Donald Trump Jr.
“Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.” Milton Friedman
"This life is the only hell believers will ever know. But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven." - Ray Comfort (LivingWaters.com)
"I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born." Ronald Reagan
“Trump started with [CNN chief] Jeff Zucker and said ‘I hate your network, everyone at CNN is a liar and you should be ashamed,’ ” “Trump kept saying, ‘We’re in a room of liars, the deceitful dishonest media.’ He addressed everyone in the room calling the media dishonest, deceitful liars." Donald Trump at a meeting with dozens of the most powerful, (and self-righteous, arrogant, dishonest) media executives on the planet. 21-11-16
"I'm confident that it's not someone's past that matters; it's their future that matters." Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
"I am not what I ought to be; I am not what I wish to be; I am not what I hope to be. But blessed be God, I am not what I used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am." John Newton.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, not only argued against the worldview which had enslaved his own country through Communism, but he prophetically assessed a major flaw and deception in the prevailing worldview being embraced by the West. He said that a “destructive and irresponsible freedom had been granted boundless space.”
"A private faith that does not act in the face of oppression is no faith at all." William Wilberforce.
"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again." Ronald Reagan
“Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.” Former President of the United States of America Ronald Reagan.
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery except for those running the government." Winston Churchill
"Compromise where you can, but where you cant, don't. Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right. Even if the whole world is telling you to move. It is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye and say, NO, you move." (Founder of Shield, Peggy Carter in Captain America-Civil War)
"This world is an uncertain realm filled with danger, where honour is undermined by the pursuit of power; freedom is sacrificed; the weak are oppressed by the strong. But there are those who oppose these powerful forces, who dedicate their lives to truth, honour and freedom." - The Three Musketeers.
“The world has changed. I can feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost; for none now live who remember it.” Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings.
"When people's concerns are dismissed as just the sorts of worries of a bunch of deplorables you can understand why they get very, very unhappy." Tony Abbott on the Trump victory. 11-11-16. (We should add the other names to deplorables such as bigot, hater, homophobe, islamophobe, rabid, dinosaur etc.)
"The health of the democracy can partly be measured by the health of its media and I don't think the health of our government, of our democracy, is great right now… I don't think our politics is in a great state and I don't think our media is in a great state." Veteran journalist Kerry O’Brien
“The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’" Psalm 14:1
“With the world so set on tearing itself apart, it don’t seem like such a bad thing to me to put a little bit of it back together.” Desmond Dodd
"It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything." G.K. Chesterton.
"Students cannot possibly receive a well-rounded education without understanding Christianity’s impact on Western Civilization. There would be no Western civilization without the Bible or Christianity." John Stonestreet
"The freedom of Australian business is today gravely threatened by forces whose unswerving and rigid purpose is the entire nationalisation of industry and the establishment of socialism as the permanent form of Australian society; this would mean the elimination of private capital and shareholding, profit, freedom of private enterprise and the transfer of the control of industry to civil servants and union leaders. These forces are centred politically in the Labor Party and industrially in the Trade Unions; they are supported by an extremely powerful and growing section of public opinion."— Charles Denton Kemp WWII
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” George Orwell
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” George Orwell
“When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.” C.S. Lewis
“When all is said and done, reality always has the last word. The truth will always out. Standing up to falsehood, lies, and crazy ideas is never an easy task.” Os Guinness
“Freedom is lost gradually from an uninterested, uninformed, and uninvolved people.” Thomas Jefferson.
"We are called to be the people of the truth, even when the truth is not popular and even when the truth is denied by the culture around us. Christians have found themselves in this position before, and we will again. God’s truth has not changed. The Holy Scriptures have not changed. The gospel of Jesus Christ has not changed. The church’s mission has not changed." Al Mohler
"Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith." Alexis de Tocqueville
“All God’s giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they believed that God would be with them.” Hudson Taylor
"In the name of Jesus, 'Stop'." Telemachus (to the Roman gladiators, before being killed, but succeeding in stopping the practice.)
"A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a higher degree of both." - Milton Friedman.
“Even a dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.” John Calvin
“A very good way of testing any view that you may hold is to ask, ‘Is this view humbling to me and glorifying to God?’ If it is, it is probably right. You will not go far wrong if whatever you are holding is glorifying God and humbling man. But if your view seems to glorify you and to query God, there is no need to argue or to go into details – it is wrong.” - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“Do we delight to talk about free grace and free gift? Pharisees never do so because they realize that these terms make them out to be paupers as all others. They like to feel that they have earned salvation or at least that they have made a contribution towards it.” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“If we go back and read the great story of the Christian church in every period of revival and reawakening, we will find that this note of repentance has always been central and it has always been primary.” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“If you are only a moralist and not a Christian, you will not be ‘abhorring’ evil. There is only one thing that can ever make you ‘abhor that which is evil’, and that is a positive love for God. You will never understand the nature of evil until you understand something of the doctrine of the holiness of God, for evil is the opposite of that.” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." Martin Niemoller
“God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite. God sets limits to his patience and forbearance. He warns us over and over again that someday the ax will fall and His judgment will be poured out.” R. C. Sproul
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.” General Douglas Macarthur
"Self-aggrandizement is at the foundation of so much of the misery of the world. It is the reason the powerful and the rich are indifferent to the plight of the poor. It is the reason for most of the violence, crime, and warfare in the world. It is at the heart of most cases of family disintegration.” Timothy Keller
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.” C. S. Lewis
“Because the elementary school doesn't teach theology (the knowledge of God), it must be excused when it doesn't teach anything. The bias of the modern world is so enormous that it will allow a thing to be inefficient as long as it is also irreligious.” - G.K. Chesterton
"The price of freedom is high. It always has been. It's a price I'm willing to pay, and if I'm the only one so be it. But, I'm willing to bet I'm not." Captain America ("The Winter Soldier")
"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil." - C. S. Lewis
“Ideologies do not normally stop at the halfway mark.”- Paul Kelly
“They parade their sin like Sodom. They do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.” Isaiah 3:9
“Your lack of faith – disturbs me!” Darth Vader
"I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid." G.K. Chesterton
"The society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called 'the beginning of wisdom': the fear of God." Ray Comfort
Some quotes from my own writing:
"If a society can fall for the notion that a man can 'marry' another man, it is so desensitized to common-sense, truth and reality that it is pretty well all over for that society. They will fall for anything." Crag Manners
"The three most successful movements engulfing and suffocating the world today are successful because they successfully silence all opposition: Islam, the LGBT rights movement and secular humanism. But there is still truth and reality which they can never silence or defeat." Craig Manners
"Marriage is, has always been and can only ever be between a man and a woman. It was 'born this way.' It can be nothing else, that is the truth. People who identify as homosexual have the same dignity as all other human beings and should be treated with the utmost respect. But truth is still truth. Legislating a falsehood and imposing it on society, and especially on children, does not change the truth." Craig Manners 7th December 2017
"Defending marriage and family is about defending freedom and children. People lose their freedom by deception or force, never knowingly or willingly. We need to wake up to the very real threat at our doorstep." Craig Manners
There is “a time to be silent, and a time to speak”. (Ecclesiastes 3:7). Now is the time to speak, so please speak up and defend children, truth and freedom. Craig Manners
"You could spend $5m trying to indoctrinate children to believe that 1+1=8, but the truth will always remain 2. You could change the law to say that 1+1=8 and blacklist, fine or jail dissenters who maintain that the answer is as it always has been, yet truth will always still be truth. Truth=Truth and always will, no matter what the media, activists, politicians or the law pretend to be otherwise. Man complements woman. Man + Woman together for life is marriage. Marriage was "born this way." Anything else is simply not marriage." Craig Manners
"This attack on freedom of speech in Tasmania is one of the main reasons why true marriage needs to be defended. Imagine what will happen if it is law? Same-sex "marriage" will abolish freedom of speech, religion and conscientious objection. This is one of the biggest threats to our freedom in Australia since WWII." Craig Manners
"What happens when they take marriage and family? Why do you think such an intolerant political ideology would tolerate any political dissent if it allows no religious or moral or conscientious objection? Why? Having taken care of all opposition from non-religious, religious and moral Australians why would they stop there?" Craig Manners
"This isn’t about being against people. It’s about being for true freedom, for marriage as it always has been and always and only ever can be: between one man and one woman. The same-sex thing is simply not marriage, therefore what we are seeing here is actually an attack on truth through attacking marriage and family. I doubt it will stop at marriage." Craig Manners
"The media and the deceptively named 'Safe Schools Program' promoters are radicalizing Australian youth to become gay or LGBT activists."
"The LGBT revolution is destroying much of what was good in our society: marriage, family, childhood, friendship, school, TV programs, movies..."
"So, the LGBT movement promotes the lie that they are 'born that way', yet they also say gender is fluid. They can't have it both ways. Either way they are destroying our children with their agenda of confusion."
'Career politicians stand for nothing but re-election. If you want to defend marriage, family and children you will have to do it yourself."
"Only restraint of harmful behavior creates a good society. Encouraging the masses to embrace bad behavior destroys good society. One of the legitimate roles of government is to restrain behavior which will be harmful to a society. We suddenly find ourselves in Australia with a situation where such behavior is not only not being restrained but it is being fully encouraged and even taught to our nation's school children under the deception called "Safe Schools Coalition" funded by our government."
"The gender confusing same-sex socialist assault on marriage, family and children in Australia will destroy the young and free nation our forefathers fought and died for. The division will lead to violence, fear, mob rule, increases in crime rates, drug abuse, and mental illness, as well as rampant epidemics of sexually transmitted diseases."
"We have a complicit media joining in the mob like rampage imposing sexual immorality on everyone, and we have weak politicians who seem to be surrendering to the juggernaut out of fear."
'The 'Born This Way' slogan is by far one of the most powerfully reckless, destructive, poisonous deceptions ever spread over our world. It may well achieve what Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and Mao could only dream about."
"With so many facts available in the public domain detailing the health dangers associated with homosexual sex acts, it would be the height of recklessness for the Australian government to grant same-sex sex acts equal status with heterosexual sex acts. There is ZERO equality between heterosexual sex and homosexual sex. The purpose of a vagina is for a penis; the purpose of an anus is to excrete human waste."
"Like the Romans did with their Imperial Eagle, so the homosexual movement are attempting to impose their Imperial Rainbow on everyone."
"Destroying the meaning of marriage to please the LGBT steamroller will not be the end of it. Emboldened, they will continue their social engineering agenda and seek to destroy other good things in our society with their tactics of intimidation and deception. They will next seek to drape their multi-colored victory banners all over govt. schools, then private Christian schools, kindergartens, child-care centres and church buildings."
"You could spend $5m trying to indoctrinate children to believe that 1+1=8, but the truth will always remain 2. You could change the law to say that 1+1=8 and fine, jail, blacklist or crucify dissenters who maintain that the answer is as it always has been: 2. Yet truth will always still be truth. Truth=Truth and always will, no matter what Goebbels said or his modern followers pretend to be otherwise. Man complements woman. That is marriage. Anything else is simply just not marriage."
“This is not about being “against” something, it is about being “for” marriage and family as it is and always has been. These are good things, some of the only good things in this life come from them, and they are worth defending.”
“The media have locked out the voice for family and marriage. They refuse to run very civilized adverts. They are actively trying to silence free speech in Australia. The only way Australians will hear the case to defend and preserve marriage and family is if YOU speak up and act.”
“Laws teach. They influence patterns of thought and behavior. They shape the life of society. It will basically teach that it is okay for a man to do that to another man and a woman to a woman. Worse, it encourages children to do it to each other or to let adults do it to them.”
On our secular society's war on God, religion, marriage, family, children, fathers and freedom:
"There is nothing homophobic about supporting traditional marriage." - Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
“You will never build a society on it. You will not build a nation on it.” - Former Prime Minister Paul Keating on same-sex marriage.
“Intact and fully functional families constitute the least costly social welfare system yet devised by mankind.” - John Howard.
It is "an affront to the Aboriginal People of Australia to suggest another definition of marriage." - Statement form 70 Aboriginal leaders opposing same-sex "marriage.'
“Life has a natural flow, there are things that should not be changed… You are born to a mother and a father… The family is not a fad.” – Dolce & Gabbana (homosexual fashion designers).
“Faithful defence of marriage and gender is an act of Christian witness – indeed one of the boldest acts of Christian witness in this secular age.” Albert Mohler, Jr.
“Destroy the family, destroy the nation.” - Vladimir Lenin (Marxist).
"No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous... Homosexuality is not an inborn trait." Dr. Camille Paglia (Homosexual).
"Once you make the extreme normal, you open the door to even worse." Hillary Clinton
"I don't think that if you go and pass a piece of legislation that says a diamond is a square makes diamonds squares, they're two different things." - Barnaby Joyce
“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” -Jesus Christ.
"We live in an age when it is considered tolerant to demand silence from nonconformists." - Chris Uhlmann
"Jesus made it clear what marriage is: “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” (Matthew 19:4-6).
“By legalizing same-sex “marriage,” the State becomes its official and active promoter. The State will call on public officials to officiate at the new civil ceremony, will order public schools to teach the acceptability of homosexual behavior to children, and will punish any state employee who resists.”
"It's sort of like a new group of mathematicians that come along, and they say 2+2=5. And the traditionalists say, 'No, it's 4, it's always been 4, it always will be 4.' And the new ones say, 'No, we insist that it's 5.' So, the traditionalists say, 'I'll tell you what, for you it can be five; we're keeping it as 4.' And then, the new ones say, 'No, no, it has to be 5 for you, and if it's not, then you're a mathosaur or a mathophobe. And basically, that's the situation we find ourselves in (with the marriage attack)" Dr. Ben Carson- Neuro Surgeon.
Same-sex "marriages" are nothing like marriage, they are really just "expressions of an anarchic freedom that wrongly passes for true freedom of man...from here it becomes all the more clear how contrary it is to human love." Pope Benedict XVI
There is "no basis for any comparison, however remote, between homosexual unions and God's design for marriage and the family." Pope Benedict XVI
"It was unacceptable for pressure to be put upon local churches over their attitude towards same-sex unions, or for international organisations to make financial help contingent on poor countries introducing laws to "allow or institutionalise" marriage between people of the same sex." Roman Catholic Synod decree in Oct 2015.
"We have seen the weaponisation of homosexuality, the transformation of it by sections of the political and media classes into the focal point for the expression of hostility" - Brendan O'Neill. And you could add: "against everything our forefathers fought and died for in two world wars.
"As a society, we shouldn’t normalize a family structure that requires children to lose one or both parents to be in that household."- Katy Faust.
"And adults – the onus needs to be on adults to conform to the rights of children rather than children fitting into an adult’s lifestyle." -Katy Faust.
"The truth is, the homosexual lobby is ever on the prowl, seeking to attack, vilify, entrap or take to court anyone who dares to resist its agenda. They want the whole world to bow down to their perverted view of things, and they will go after anyone who takes a contrary point of view." - Bill Muehlenberg.
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"Conscientious objection was a "human right". It is a right. And if a person does not allow others to be a conscientious objector, he denies a right," - Pope Francis
“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” -Jesus Christ.
The homosexual agenda does not stop at same-sex "marriage." "What next? Dis-establish marriage. Abolish the legal category" of marriage. -Tamara Metz (Homosexual activist).
"My parents’ divorce has been the most traumatic event in my thirty-eight years of life. While I did love my mother’s partner and her friends, I would have traded every one of them to have my mom and my dad loving me under the same roof.” - Katy Faust.
“If the marriage law is to change, then in combination with anti-discrimination laws, it will be a very powerful weapon to silence dissenters and punish good citizens for being ‘bigots’ and ‘haters’.”- Lyle Shelton
"Liberty cannot be established without morality." Alexis de Tocqueville
"Parents are primarily responsible for their children's moral education." International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights."I would never align myself to a community as intolerant and self-absorbed as the LGBT community, a community that demands tolerance with fervor and passion, yet does not give it in return. In fact, this community attacks anyone who does not agree with them, no matter how lovingly any difference of opinion is expressed." - Brandi Walton (Raised in a home by two lesbians).
“Fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we’re going to do with marriage when we get there.” “It’s a no-brainer that the institution of marriage should not exist.” - Masha Gessen (Homosexual activist).
“The gay movement, whether we acknowledge it or not, is not a civil rights movement, not even a sexual liberation movement, but a moral revolution aimed at changing people's view of homosexuality." - Paul Varnell (Homosexual activist).
Talking about the drug soaked culture of homosexuals, Monty Moncrieff, project co-ordinator at Antidote, a drugs service for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people SAYS, "there is a lot of cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine and GHB around. It is a hedonistic culture and often the lifestyle and recreational drug use go hand in hand.'" (Great culture to bring children up in!!!)
“Are we just swimming around in a sewer which we are sort of saying is normal?” “…the gay lifestyle is incompatible with happiness and fidelity in human relations.” British broadcast journalist Simon Fanschawe (Homosexual).
"Homosexuality is not normal. On the contrary it is a challenge to the norm...Nature exists whether academics like it or not. And in nature, procreation is the single relentless rule. That is the norm. Our sexual bodies were designed for reproduction." Dr. Camille Paglia (Homosexual).
‘God sent His only Son “to serve, not to be served.” He restored love and service to the centre of our lives in the person of Jesus Christ’. Queen Elizabeth 2012.
‘God sent into the world a unique person – neither a philosopher nor a general (important though they are) – but a Saviour, with the power to forgive. Forgiveness lies at the heart of the Christian faith. It can heal broken families, it can restore friendships and it can reconcile divided communities. It is in forgiveness that we feel the power of God’s love.’ Queen Elizabeth 2011.
‘For me the teachings of Christ and my own personal accountability before God provide a framework in which I try to lead my life. God sent His only Son “to serve, not to be served”. I, like so many of you, have drawn great comfort in difficult times from Christ’s words and example.’ Queen Elizabeth 2000.
"The Family is not only an institution, but a foundation, the foundation of nearly all institutions." G.K. Chesterton
On the belief that career or job are the fundamental purpose of life: “That’s not true. The most important thing in life is your family, your relationship (husband/wife) and your children.” Jordan Peterson
“The marriage relationship is a reflection of the sanctification process that God works into our lives to accomplish His purposes. We need our rough edges rubbed off, and the Lord uses marriage to do it. If you seek what’s best for we, instead of only me, you’ll become more selfless, more loving – more like Christ.” Focus on the Family
"If you want to have a good relationship embed it in the truth." Jordan Petersen
"Who says that a working mother's evening time with her children is necessarily of greater quality than it would have been if she remained at home all day? Her fatigue would make the opposite more likely." Focus on the Family
"Fear not tomorrow, God is already there." Ruth Graham
"If you had known what an unutterable sinner you are, you will thank God, that when He loves, He finds the reason of His love in Himself and not in you." Archibald Brown
"We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God," Abraham Lincoln
"Australia is not a secular country — it is a free country. This is a nation where you have the freedom to follow any belief system you choose. Secularism is just one. It has no greater claim than any other on our society." Scott Morrison (Australian Prime Minister)
"It's better to live courageously than cowardly—everyone knows that." Jordan Peterson
"Let it not be said I was silent when they needed me." William Wilberforce. (We can easily say this of the children today as Wilberforce said it of the slaves in his day).
"Keep up the fight, bring it to your schools. You don't have to be indoctrinated by these (left-wing) teachers who are trying to sell you on Socialism from birth. You don't have to do it. Because you can think for yourselves." Donald Trump Jr.
“Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.” Milton Friedman
"This life is the only hell believers will ever know. But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven." - Ray Comfort (LivingWaters.com)
"I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born." Ronald Reagan
“Trump started with [CNN chief] Jeff Zucker and said ‘I hate your network, everyone at CNN is a liar and you should be ashamed,’ ” “Trump kept saying, ‘We’re in a room of liars, the deceitful dishonest media.’ He addressed everyone in the room calling the media dishonest, deceitful liars." Donald Trump at a meeting with dozens of the most powerful, (and self-righteous, arrogant, dishonest) media executives on the planet. 21-11-16
"I'm confident that it's not someone's past that matters; it's their future that matters." Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
"I am not what I ought to be; I am not what I wish to be; I am not what I hope to be. But blessed be God, I am not what I used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am." John Newton.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, not only argued against the worldview which had enslaved his own country through Communism, but he prophetically assessed a major flaw and deception in the prevailing worldview being embraced by the West. He said that a “destructive and irresponsible freedom had been granted boundless space.”
"A private faith that does not act in the face of oppression is no faith at all." William Wilberforce.
"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again." Ronald Reagan
“Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.” Former President of the United States of America Ronald Reagan.
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery except for those running the government." Winston Churchill
"Compromise where you can, but where you cant, don't. Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right. Even if the whole world is telling you to move. It is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye and say, NO, you move." (Founder of Shield, Peggy Carter in Captain America-Civil War)
"This world is an uncertain realm filled with danger, where honour is undermined by the pursuit of power; freedom is sacrificed; the weak are oppressed by the strong. But there are those who oppose these powerful forces, who dedicate their lives to truth, honour and freedom." - The Three Musketeers.
“The world has changed. I can feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost; for none now live who remember it.” Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings.
"When people's concerns are dismissed as just the sorts of worries of a bunch of deplorables you can understand why they get very, very unhappy." Tony Abbott on the Trump victory. 11-11-16. (We should add the other names to deplorables such as bigot, hater, homophobe, islamophobe, rabid, dinosaur etc.)
"The health of the democracy can partly be measured by the health of its media and I don't think the health of our government, of our democracy, is great right now… I don't think our politics is in a great state and I don't think our media is in a great state." Veteran journalist Kerry O’Brien
“The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’" Psalm 14:1
“With the world so set on tearing itself apart, it don’t seem like such a bad thing to me to put a little bit of it back together.” Desmond Dodd
"It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything." G.K. Chesterton.
"Students cannot possibly receive a well-rounded education without understanding Christianity’s impact on Western Civilization. There would be no Western civilization without the Bible or Christianity." John Stonestreet
"The freedom of Australian business is today gravely threatened by forces whose unswerving and rigid purpose is the entire nationalisation of industry and the establishment of socialism as the permanent form of Australian society; this would mean the elimination of private capital and shareholding, profit, freedom of private enterprise and the transfer of the control of industry to civil servants and union leaders. These forces are centred politically in the Labor Party and industrially in the Trade Unions; they are supported by an extremely powerful and growing section of public opinion."— Charles Denton Kemp WWII
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” George Orwell
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” George Orwell
“When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.” C.S. Lewis
“When all is said and done, reality always has the last word. The truth will always out. Standing up to falsehood, lies, and crazy ideas is never an easy task.” Os Guinness
“Freedom is lost gradually from an uninterested, uninformed, and uninvolved people.” Thomas Jefferson.
"We are called to be the people of the truth, even when the truth is not popular and even when the truth is denied by the culture around us. Christians have found themselves in this position before, and we will again. God’s truth has not changed. The Holy Scriptures have not changed. The gospel of Jesus Christ has not changed. The church’s mission has not changed." Al Mohler
"Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith." Alexis de Tocqueville
“All God’s giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they believed that God would be with them.” Hudson Taylor
"In the name of Jesus, 'Stop'." Telemachus (to the Roman gladiators, before being killed, but succeeding in stopping the practice.)
"A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a higher degree of both." - Milton Friedman.
“Even a dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.” John Calvin
“A very good way of testing any view that you may hold is to ask, ‘Is this view humbling to me and glorifying to God?’ If it is, it is probably right. You will not go far wrong if whatever you are holding is glorifying God and humbling man. But if your view seems to glorify you and to query God, there is no need to argue or to go into details – it is wrong.” - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“Do we delight to talk about free grace and free gift? Pharisees never do so because they realize that these terms make them out to be paupers as all others. They like to feel that they have earned salvation or at least that they have made a contribution towards it.” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“If we go back and read the great story of the Christian church in every period of revival and reawakening, we will find that this note of repentance has always been central and it has always been primary.” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“If you are only a moralist and not a Christian, you will not be ‘abhorring’ evil. There is only one thing that can ever make you ‘abhor that which is evil’, and that is a positive love for God. You will never understand the nature of evil until you understand something of the doctrine of the holiness of God, for evil is the opposite of that.” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." Martin Niemoller
“God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite. God sets limits to his patience and forbearance. He warns us over and over again that someday the ax will fall and His judgment will be poured out.” R. C. Sproul
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.” General Douglas Macarthur
"Self-aggrandizement is at the foundation of so much of the misery of the world. It is the reason the powerful and the rich are indifferent to the plight of the poor. It is the reason for most of the violence, crime, and warfare in the world. It is at the heart of most cases of family disintegration.” Timothy Keller
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.” C. S. Lewis
“Because the elementary school doesn't teach theology (the knowledge of God), it must be excused when it doesn't teach anything. The bias of the modern world is so enormous that it will allow a thing to be inefficient as long as it is also irreligious.” - G.K. Chesterton
"The price of freedom is high. It always has been. It's a price I'm willing to pay, and if I'm the only one so be it. But, I'm willing to bet I'm not." Captain America ("The Winter Soldier")
"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil." - C. S. Lewis
“Ideologies do not normally stop at the halfway mark.”- Paul Kelly
“They parade their sin like Sodom. They do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.” Isaiah 3:9
“Your lack of faith – disturbs me!” Darth Vader
"I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid." G.K. Chesterton
"The society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called 'the beginning of wisdom': the fear of God." Ray Comfort
Some quotes from my own writing:
"If a society can fall for the notion that a man can 'marry' another man, it is so desensitized to common-sense, truth and reality that it is pretty well all over for that society. They will fall for anything." Crag Manners
"The three most successful movements engulfing and suffocating the world today are successful because they successfully silence all opposition: Islam, the LGBT rights movement and secular humanism. But there is still truth and reality which they can never silence or defeat." Craig Manners
"Marriage is, has always been and can only ever be between a man and a woman. It was 'born this way.' It can be nothing else, that is the truth. People who identify as homosexual have the same dignity as all other human beings and should be treated with the utmost respect. But truth is still truth. Legislating a falsehood and imposing it on society, and especially on children, does not change the truth." Craig Manners 7th December 2017
"Defending marriage and family is about defending freedom and children. People lose their freedom by deception or force, never knowingly or willingly. We need to wake up to the very real threat at our doorstep." Craig Manners
There is “a time to be silent, and a time to speak”. (Ecclesiastes 3:7). Now is the time to speak, so please speak up and defend children, truth and freedom. Craig Manners
"You could spend $5m trying to indoctrinate children to believe that 1+1=8, but the truth will always remain 2. You could change the law to say that 1+1=8 and blacklist, fine or jail dissenters who maintain that the answer is as it always has been, yet truth will always still be truth. Truth=Truth and always will, no matter what the media, activists, politicians or the law pretend to be otherwise. Man complements woman. Man + Woman together for life is marriage. Marriage was "born this way." Anything else is simply not marriage." Craig Manners
"This attack on freedom of speech in Tasmania is one of the main reasons why true marriage needs to be defended. Imagine what will happen if it is law? Same-sex "marriage" will abolish freedom of speech, religion and conscientious objection. This is one of the biggest threats to our freedom in Australia since WWII." Craig Manners
"What happens when they take marriage and family? Why do you think such an intolerant political ideology would tolerate any political dissent if it allows no religious or moral or conscientious objection? Why? Having taken care of all opposition from non-religious, religious and moral Australians why would they stop there?" Craig Manners
"This isn’t about being against people. It’s about being for true freedom, for marriage as it always has been and always and only ever can be: between one man and one woman. The same-sex thing is simply not marriage, therefore what we are seeing here is actually an attack on truth through attacking marriage and family. I doubt it will stop at marriage." Craig Manners
"The media and the deceptively named 'Safe Schools Program' promoters are radicalizing Australian youth to become gay or LGBT activists."
"The LGBT revolution is destroying much of what was good in our society: marriage, family, childhood, friendship, school, TV programs, movies..."
"So, the LGBT movement promotes the lie that they are 'born that way', yet they also say gender is fluid. They can't have it both ways. Either way they are destroying our children with their agenda of confusion."
'Career politicians stand for nothing but re-election. If you want to defend marriage, family and children you will have to do it yourself."
"Only restraint of harmful behavior creates a good society. Encouraging the masses to embrace bad behavior destroys good society. One of the legitimate roles of government is to restrain behavior which will be harmful to a society. We suddenly find ourselves in Australia with a situation where such behavior is not only not being restrained but it is being fully encouraged and even taught to our nation's school children under the deception called "Safe Schools Coalition" funded by our government."
"The gender confusing same-sex socialist assault on marriage, family and children in Australia will destroy the young and free nation our forefathers fought and died for. The division will lead to violence, fear, mob rule, increases in crime rates, drug abuse, and mental illness, as well as rampant epidemics of sexually transmitted diseases."
"We have a complicit media joining in the mob like rampage imposing sexual immorality on everyone, and we have weak politicians who seem to be surrendering to the juggernaut out of fear."
'The 'Born This Way' slogan is by far one of the most powerfully reckless, destructive, poisonous deceptions ever spread over our world. It may well achieve what Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and Mao could only dream about."
"With so many facts available in the public domain detailing the health dangers associated with homosexual sex acts, it would be the height of recklessness for the Australian government to grant same-sex sex acts equal status with heterosexual sex acts. There is ZERO equality between heterosexual sex and homosexual sex. The purpose of a vagina is for a penis; the purpose of an anus is to excrete human waste."
"Like the Romans did with their Imperial Eagle, so the homosexual movement are attempting to impose their Imperial Rainbow on everyone."
"Destroying the meaning of marriage to please the LGBT steamroller will not be the end of it. Emboldened, they will continue their social engineering agenda and seek to destroy other good things in our society with their tactics of intimidation and deception. They will next seek to drape their multi-colored victory banners all over govt. schools, then private Christian schools, kindergartens, child-care centres and church buildings."
"You could spend $5m trying to indoctrinate children to believe that 1+1=8, but the truth will always remain 2. You could change the law to say that 1+1=8 and fine, jail, blacklist or crucify dissenters who maintain that the answer is as it always has been: 2. Yet truth will always still be truth. Truth=Truth and always will, no matter what Goebbels said or his modern followers pretend to be otherwise. Man complements woman. That is marriage. Anything else is simply just not marriage."
“This is not about being “against” something, it is about being “for” marriage and family as it is and always has been. These are good things, some of the only good things in this life come from them, and they are worth defending.”
“The media have locked out the voice for family and marriage. They refuse to run very civilized adverts. They are actively trying to silence free speech in Australia. The only way Australians will hear the case to defend and preserve marriage and family is if YOU speak up and act.”
“Laws teach. They influence patterns of thought and behavior. They shape the life of society. It will basically teach that it is okay for a man to do that to another man and a woman to a woman. Worse, it encourages children to do it to each other or to let adults do it to them.”
On our secular society's war on God, religion, marriage, family, children, fathers and freedom:
"There is nothing homophobic about supporting traditional marriage." - Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
“You will never build a society on it. You will not build a nation on it.” - Former Prime Minister Paul Keating on same-sex marriage.
“Intact and fully functional families constitute the least costly social welfare system yet devised by mankind.” - John Howard.
It is "an affront to the Aboriginal People of Australia to suggest another definition of marriage." - Statement form 70 Aboriginal leaders opposing same-sex "marriage.'
“Life has a natural flow, there are things that should not be changed… You are born to a mother and a father… The family is not a fad.” – Dolce & Gabbana (homosexual fashion designers).
“Faithful defence of marriage and gender is an act of Christian witness – indeed one of the boldest acts of Christian witness in this secular age.” Albert Mohler, Jr.
“Destroy the family, destroy the nation.” - Vladimir Lenin (Marxist).
"No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous... Homosexuality is not an inborn trait." Dr. Camille Paglia (Homosexual).
"Once you make the extreme normal, you open the door to even worse." Hillary Clinton
"I don't think that if you go and pass a piece of legislation that says a diamond is a square makes diamonds squares, they're two different things." - Barnaby Joyce
“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” -Jesus Christ.
"We live in an age when it is considered tolerant to demand silence from nonconformists." - Chris Uhlmann
"Jesus made it clear what marriage is: “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” (Matthew 19:4-6).
“By legalizing same-sex “marriage,” the State becomes its official and active promoter. The State will call on public officials to officiate at the new civil ceremony, will order public schools to teach the acceptability of homosexual behavior to children, and will punish any state employee who resists.”
"It's sort of like a new group of mathematicians that come along, and they say 2+2=5. And the traditionalists say, 'No, it's 4, it's always been 4, it always will be 4.' And the new ones say, 'No, we insist that it's 5.' So, the traditionalists say, 'I'll tell you what, for you it can be five; we're keeping it as 4.' And then, the new ones say, 'No, no, it has to be 5 for you, and if it's not, then you're a mathosaur or a mathophobe. And basically, that's the situation we find ourselves in (with the marriage attack)" Dr. Ben Carson- Neuro Surgeon.
Same-sex "marriages" are nothing like marriage, they are really just "expressions of an anarchic freedom that wrongly passes for true freedom of man...from here it becomes all the more clear how contrary it is to human love." Pope Benedict XVI
There is "no basis for any comparison, however remote, between homosexual unions and God's design for marriage and the family." Pope Benedict XVI
"It was unacceptable for pressure to be put upon local churches over their attitude towards same-sex unions, or for international organisations to make financial help contingent on poor countries introducing laws to "allow or institutionalise" marriage between people of the same sex." Roman Catholic Synod decree in Oct 2015.
"We have seen the weaponisation of homosexuality, the transformation of it by sections of the political and media classes into the focal point for the expression of hostility" - Brendan O'Neill. And you could add: "against everything our forefathers fought and died for in two world wars.
"As a society, we shouldn’t normalize a family structure that requires children to lose one or both parents to be in that household."- Katy Faust.
"And adults – the onus needs to be on adults to conform to the rights of children rather than children fitting into an adult’s lifestyle." -Katy Faust.
"The truth is, the homosexual lobby is ever on the prowl, seeking to attack, vilify, entrap or take to court anyone who dares to resist its agenda. They want the whole world to bow down to their perverted view of things, and they will go after anyone who takes a contrary point of view." - Bill Muehlenberg.
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"Conscientious objection was a "human right". It is a right. And if a person does not allow others to be a conscientious objector, he denies a right," - Pope Francis
“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” -Jesus Christ.
The homosexual agenda does not stop at same-sex "marriage." "What next? Dis-establish marriage. Abolish the legal category" of marriage. -Tamara Metz (Homosexual activist).
"My parents’ divorce has been the most traumatic event in my thirty-eight years of life. While I did love my mother’s partner and her friends, I would have traded every one of them to have my mom and my dad loving me under the same roof.” - Katy Faust.
“If the marriage law is to change, then in combination with anti-discrimination laws, it will be a very powerful weapon to silence dissenters and punish good citizens for being ‘bigots’ and ‘haters’.”- Lyle Shelton
"Liberty cannot be established without morality." Alexis de Tocqueville
"Parents are primarily responsible for their children's moral education." International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights."I would never align myself to a community as intolerant and self-absorbed as the LGBT community, a community that demands tolerance with fervor and passion, yet does not give it in return. In fact, this community attacks anyone who does not agree with them, no matter how lovingly any difference of opinion is expressed." - Brandi Walton (Raised in a home by two lesbians).
“Fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we’re going to do with marriage when we get there.” “It’s a no-brainer that the institution of marriage should not exist.” - Masha Gessen (Homosexual activist).
“The gay movement, whether we acknowledge it or not, is not a civil rights movement, not even a sexual liberation movement, but a moral revolution aimed at changing people's view of homosexuality." - Paul Varnell (Homosexual activist).
Talking about the drug soaked culture of homosexuals, Monty Moncrieff, project co-ordinator at Antidote, a drugs service for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people SAYS, "there is a lot of cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine and GHB around. It is a hedonistic culture and often the lifestyle and recreational drug use go hand in hand.'" (Great culture to bring children up in!!!)
“Are we just swimming around in a sewer which we are sort of saying is normal?” “…the gay lifestyle is incompatible with happiness and fidelity in human relations.” British broadcast journalist Simon Fanschawe (Homosexual).
"Homosexuality is not normal. On the contrary it is a challenge to the norm...Nature exists whether academics like it or not. And in nature, procreation is the single relentless rule. That is the norm. Our sexual bodies were designed for reproduction." Dr. Camille Paglia (Homosexual).
