In this world it is becoming more and more unpopular to be a Christian. Soon it may become dangerous.
Never complain, never explain personal motto of
I pay the tax I am required to pay, not a penny more, not a penny less. If anybody in this country doesn't minimize their tax, they want their heads read because, as a Government, I can tell you they're not spending it that well that we should be donating extra.
I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts.
The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.
If a working class Englishman saw a bloke drive past in a Rolls-Royce, he'd say to himself "Come the social revolution and we'll take that away from you, mate". Whereas if his American counterpart saw a bloke drive past in a Cadillac he'd say "One day I'm going to own one of those". To my way of thinking the first attitude is wrong. The latter is right.
You only get one Alan Bond in your lifetime. And I've had mine
Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.
Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.
The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a 'happy Christian. ' Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus Christ had joy, and He prayed 'that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. '
One of the oddities about responses that you get to what you write, if you get a fair number of them, is that people have very different ideas of what you said.