Quotable Quotes

There are only two things I really value in life: love and liberty. Love, of God and others, is the essence of the Gospel, and God is love. Oppression is the worst of all evils to suffer.

Six Pence Song - written here Sunday October 13 Anno DOMINI 2024 at around 11:20 AM CT

Speak truth, not hyperbole or prevarication: in the long run, people will grow to trust you more, and your opinions will come to have real lasting impact. Many people are more discerning than you think. Truth is also better for everyone, for distortion typically results in negative outcomes.

Six Pence Song - written here Sunday October 13 2024 AD at around 5:34 AM CT

Wakefield, loc cit. One cannot help thinking of the married lady who came to tell D.L. Moody that she thought she was called to be a preacher. ‘Have you got any children at home?’ Moody asked. ‘Yes, six.’ ‘There’s your congregation; off you go!’

J. I. Packer, A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1990)[footnote].

Six Pence Song - posted here Monday August 19 2024 AD around 11:30 AM CT

The Puritan ethic of marriage was to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment, but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, and then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.

J. I. Packer, A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1990), 25.

Six Pence Song - posted here Monday August 19 2024 AD at around 11:10 AM CT

Be strong in conviction, firm in beliefs, unwavering in faith; but, to the extent possible, moderating in conversation.

Six Pence Song - written here Wednesday Jun 26th 2024 AD at around 6:11 AM. Originally penned several years ago

Now is the time and the furrows are already deep and well plowed by the ravages of these unprecedented times: roll up your sleeves, get to work, and cast broad the seeds of the Word. The workers are so few, and the times are so dire: no excuses anymore.

Six Pence Song - written here Sunday April 4th 2024 AD at around 5:30 PM CT

It's hard to be a conventional guy in an unconventional world.

Six Pence Song - written here Saturday February 18th 2024 AD around 4:39 PM CT USA

Lord, give me treasures in heaven rather than pleasures on earth.

Six Pence Song - written here Monday February 5th 2024 AD around 1:58 AM CT

A church is not a fishbowl of beautiful, happy people on display being perfect and enjoying each other's company: a church is a hospital where the sinful and broken come in humility and contrition, poor in spirit and thirsting after righteousness, to be saved and healed in their hearts, minds, and spirit, with all the blood and gore and mess, and all the doctors, nurses, volunteers, and patients working together to heal and learn and grow into Christlikeness in relationship with each other, their communities, and the world.

Six Pence Song - written here Sunday February 4th 2024 AD at around 7:36 PM CT

Don't just sit there and stew: Get up and do!

Six Pence Song - written and posted here Sunday October 17th 2023 AD at around 6:03 AM CT

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all of the time."

Abraham Lincoln; Phineas Taylor (P. T.) Barnum - written here Monday June 5th 2023 AD at around 6:49 AM CT

I would rather live in poverty and obscurity with integrity than with wealth and notoriety but without integrity.

Six Pence Song - written here Monday June 5th 2023 AD at around 6:13 AM CT

Proverbs 20:7 (KJV 1900)

7 The just man walketh in his integrity:

    His children are blessed after him.

Proverbs 19:22 (KJV 1900)

22 The desire of a man is his kindness:

     And a poor man is better than a liar.

Proverbs 19:1 (KJV 1900)

19 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity,

     Than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

Proverbs 22:1 (KJV 1900)

1 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches,

   And loving favour rather than silver and gold.

Proverbs 19:4 (KJV 1900)

4  Wealth maketh many friends;

    But the poor is separated from his neighbour.

"What is Truth?" - Pontius Pilate

"I am the way, the truth, and the life." - Jesus Christ

The Bible - written here Sunday May 28th 2023 AD at around 6:33 AM CT

Money is entirely overrated, especially when compared to wholly and completely relying on God.

Six Pence Song - written Sunday May 28th 2023 AD at around 6:26 AM CT

"Money doesn't make you happy."

Rodney Dangerfield on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson - not sure when, but shortly after Rodney gained success

Know when to stop talking before your wife tells you to.

Six Pence Song - written here Saturday May 6th 2023 around 2:39 PM CT

Let God do the judging, not you. However, use discernment in all matters.

Six Pence Song - written here Saturday May 6th 2023 around 2:37 PM CT

"I may not be a judge, but I sure am a fruit inspector."

J. Vernon McGee - written here Saturday May 6th 2023 around 2:41 PM CT

For the most part, and unless there is a pressing need, hold your peace. It will serve you well.

Six Pence Song - written here Saturday May 6th 2023 around 2:34 PM CT

Be a man of God. If you don’t know how, pray and read the Bible. It has all you need.

Six Pence Song - written here Saturday May 6th 2023 around 2:26 PM CT

Be wise.

Six Pence Song - written here Saturday May 6th 2023 around 2:33 PM CT

Don’t be a fool.

Six Pence Song - written here Saturday May 6th 2023 around 2:30 PM CT

“The road to perdition is paved with good intentions”

Uncle Homer - written here Saturday May 6th 2023 around 2:28 PM CT

Pray every day to be humble. Pride is the original and worst of sins, and God will chasten it more painfully and vehemently than any other sin. Fear, trembling, God’s chastening for pride.

Six Pence Song - written here Saturday May 6th 2023 around 2:26 PM CT

Don’t tell people how good you are or what good you are going to do. Just do it.

Six Pence Song - written here Saturday May 6th 2023 around 2:46 PM CT

First they addict you, then they afflict you.

Six Pence Song - written here Saturday May 6th 2023 around 2:02 PM CT

The person you should spend the most time with is God.

Six Pence Song - written here Friday March 17 2023 at around 11:15 AM CT

"Fortune favors the prepared mind."

Louis Pasteur - written here Thursday March 16 2023 at around 10:42 PM CT

Total World Domination is a perennial goal of many worldly men: truly sublime commentary on this subject can be found in any episode of Pinky and The Brain. However, it becomes really uncomfortable when it becomes the perennial goal of Christian leaders or churches. Only God will one day enjoy Total World Domination. Anything else is anathema to Christianity.

Six Pence Song - written March 7th 2023 at around 5:56 PM CT

"Love covers a multitude of sins."

The Apostle Peter: 1 Peter 4:8. Written here Monday March 6 2023 at around 11:31 PM CT

Galatians 6:9–10 (KJV 1900)

9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. 10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

God - copied here Monday March 6th 2023 at around 11:23 PM CT

Never lie.

Dad - written here Monday March 6th 2023 at around 11:20 PM CT

The Bible is clean and pure and wholly good: absolute, unequivocal truth revealed by almighty God Himself. When man informs the Bible with culture rather than the other way around, it becomes adulterated and ineffective, and the consequence is what we are seeing in America today: a society more corrupt and morally bankrupt than ever since its inception, heading more and more precipitously to a fearsome reckoning, unless preempted by the Parousia, sooner than later. May God have mercy on our souls.

Six Pence Song - written Monday February 27th 2023 at around 1:30 PM CT

"The Bible should inform culture, not culture the Bible."

Unknown - written here Monday February 27th 2023 at around 1:12 PM CT

The source of all oppression is sin. Only Christ can save us from slavery to sin and suffering because of the sin of others. Only through Christ can we find true freedom from oppression.

Six Pence Song - written here Monday February 27th 2023 at around 11:14 AM CT

Oppression is the worst of all evils to suffer.

Six Pence Song - written here Monday February 27th 2023 at around 11:10 AM CT

God wins.

Millions and millions - written here Saturday February 20 2023 at 12:11 AM CT. The Bible's redemption story.

I just can't force myself to watch Creepy Joe Biden lie to the entire world on every station tonight while all the congressmen, their guests, and various "dignitaries" clap when they feel they have to.

Six Pence Song - written Tuesday February 7 2023 at around 9:05 PM CT

ChatGPT and other similar technologies will one day become the most potent weapons for spreading belief in the worldviews espoused by their creators the world has ever known, curating their content with powerful algorithms more potent than ever before imagined, and gaining the trust of the masses more successfully than ever before obtained.

Six Pence Song - written Thursday February 2 2023 at around 9:05 PM CT

Belief in the multiverse is a faith leap even larger than belief in the risen Christ, yet those who espouse it, it being the only possible way to surmount the outrageously impossible odds against our universe coming into being and sustaining life as we know it purely from random chance, are the very ones who decry the faith of Christians the loudest.

Six Pence Song - written Sunday January 29 2023 at around 10:17 PM CT

For unbelievers, and those who are tentatively on the path to belief, it is perhaps most critical to the task of truly understanding the truth of the existence and nature of the Christian God to first free oneself from a slavish belief that the purely naturalistic theory of evolution is supported by an amount of irrefutable evidence so insurmountably large that it becomes, in essence, a scientific theorem, not a scientific theory, and hence, settled fact.

Six Pence Song - written privately some time ago. Published here Sunday January 29 2023 at around 10:09 PM CT

Billiard balls cannot give rise to sentience, no matter how many nor how arranged.

Six Pence Song - written Sunday January 29 2023 around 9:30 PM CT

"We are the universe experiencing itself."

Son - Multiple attributions of similar sayings, including Alan Watts, Carl Sagan, and Eckhart Tolle - conclusion from naturalism, to which I do not adhere

"Common sense is not common."

Mom - Sunday January 29 2023

"If you have no enemies, it means you don't take a stand on anything."

Unknown - spoken in Sunday School this Morning January 29 2023. I did not catch which member said it.

If a church is everything to everybody, it is nothing to nobody.

Six Pence Song - written here Sunday January 29 2023 at around 8:14 PM CT

"There's an old saying that the only things in the middle of the highway are yellow stripes and roadkill."

Tony Perkins - Washington Update - State Farm Bales on Full Apology - May 26 2022

The tempering fire of tribulation is perhaps God's greatest weapon to win lost souls to Christ and sanctify the saved, transforming them like nothing else can ongoing into christlikeness and fostering spiritual maturity.

Six Pence Song - written Saturday January 28th 2023 around 12:01 PM CT

Pornography is one of the most heinous atrocities of mankind, victimizing purveyors, actors, and consumers, especially the young, the weak, and the impressionable. The Great Enabling of Porn Addiction by the Internet is one of the worst tragedies of all history. It must be stopped.

Six Pence Song - written Friday January 27 2023 about 7:24 PM CT

I used to think it took two to tango. I was wrong: apparently, you can tango all by yourself, even with someone else, all in your own head.

Six Pence Song - written Friday January 27 2023 at around 5:12 PM CT

For Christians, the chief end of man is to love God and others in joy forever. For those who espouse naturalism, the lot of man is to rearrange stuff until dead. I leave it up to you to choose which is better.

Six Pence Song - written Wednesday January 25 2023

Boys should play GI Joe and T-Ball, girls should dress up dolls and play house.

Six Pence Song - written Friday December 23 2022

You can't yoke a donkey to an ox and expect to plow a straight furrow.

Six Pence Song - written Tuesday August 23rd 2022

The Bible is inerrant, infallible, and without contradiction in its whole and in every word. As God's special revelation to mankind, it is immutable, yet timelessly authoritative, applicable, and sufficient: it speaks truth to all that is necessary for salvation and Christian praxis. Any equivocation on the above statements lands one on a slippery slope that ultimately and inevitably destroys the core tenets of the Christian faith, rendering meaningless Jesus Christ's sacrificial death on the Cross.

Six Pence Song - written Monday December 12th 2022 at around 7:15 pm CT

The only absolute truth ever penned is the Bible.

Six Pence Song - written here Monday December 12th 2022 at around 6:33 pm CT

Secularism is just as much of a religion as Christianity.

Six Pence Song - written here Monday December 12th 2022 at around 6:27 pm. Written or said in various similar forms many times before

"It takes more faith to be an atheist than to believe in God."

Multiple websites credit Ruth Graham Bell - written here Monday December 12th 2022 at around 6:22 pm CT

The power of edited media and the written word to alter reality to suit the message intended by the editor or author is profound to the extent that few people are willing to admit or are even aware.

Six Pence Song - written Monday December 12th 2022 at around 6:17 pm CT

"Only believe half of what you see and none of what you hear."

Unknown - written here Monday December 12th at around 6:05 pm CT. I heard it somewhere, but do not remember where

"Health is the best gift you can give yourself."

Dallas at the Cleveland County YMCA - nice lady who worked the lunch counter and taught aerobics, all with a gimp leg

It is better to be less informed than disinformed.

Six Pence Song - written Monday December 12th, 2022 at around 5:14 pm CT

Getting healthy is a lot cheaper and better than taking pills or getting surgery.

Six Pence Song - written Monday December 5th 2022 at around 3:54 pm CT

Reagan was right, then he left.

Six Pence Song - written Saturday 11/26/2022 at around 7:48 pm CT. Never heard this before, but that doesn't mean it is original.

Small societies that have socialist structures, like those in Scandinavia, are only able to do so sustainably on the backs of countries like the United States of America that have historically had robust, largely free market economies able to sustain an overwhelmingly large military presence and project power and stability worldwide for the global good.

Six Pence Song - written Saturday 11/26/2022 at around 2:33 pm CT, I've never heard this before, but I am sure it is not original.

Comfort is the ultimate poison pill of liberty and competitiveness, inevitably leading to being a vassal nation, slavery, and obliteration.

Six Pence Song - written Saturday 11/26/2022 at around 2:18 pm CT, realized by many for millennia

Utopian ideologies, ostensibly based on human reason alone, like socialism and communism, inevitably lead to oppression and tyranny: it is self consciously in their very nature (e.g., forced redistribution of wealth versus voluntary giving of time, talents, and money through love). This has been shown repeatedly in history, and indeed the largest scale human atrocities ever known owe themselves to these flawed misapprehensions.

Six Pence Song - written here Saturday 11/26/2022 at around 2:06 pm CT, but said many ways by many men for centuries

In God's economy, love should be the greatest motivator: both the means and the end.

Six Pence Song - written Saturday 11/26/2022 at around 1:35 pm CT. This is a paraphrased restatement of the greatest biblical truth.

Worldly fear is a much better motivator than fleshly lust. Sadly, both are the best the world has to offer.

Six Pence Song - written Saturday 11/26/2022 at around 1:30 pm CT. I've never heard this anywhere else.

A society must not only have tantalizing goals to strive for above, but fearful realities to flee from below. Any thought to the contrary is but an unsustainable ideologue's fantasy.

Six Pence Song - written here Saturday 11/26/2022 at around 1:19 pm CT, realized by me decades ago, forgotten repeatedly by others all too often for centuries with devastating consequences.

The best socio-economic distribution is in the shape of an egg.

Six Pence Song - written here Saturday 11/26/2022 at around 1:05 pm CT, realized by me decades ago.

Civilization is but a delicate shell tenuously holding in the barbarous humors of mankind.

Six Pence Song - written here in this form Saturday 11/26/2022 at around 12:54 pm CT. Understood in essence millenia ago.

Be a man of one Book, but a reader of many.

Six Pence Song - written Wednesday December 16th 2022 at around 7:37 am CT.

If trusting in money has you worried, give it all away and trust in God instead: you can't worry about what you don't have, and unlike trusting in money, trusting in God actually works.

Six Pence Song - written Sunday November 13th 2022 at around 11:56 pm