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St Oswald's Parish Church - Grasmere - Official church site, with information about the services, and a history of the Church.
Kendal Parish Church - The architecture, history, activities and events of the unusually large 800 year old parish church.
Crosscrake and Preston Patrick Churches - Information and extensive history of two small rural churches near Kendal.
St Mark's Church - Barrow-in-Furness - 120 year old 'pre-fab' church. Comprehensive information and history.
Rydal Hall - Carlisle Diocesan Retreat house and conference centre, with youth centre and camp site. An elegant Hall standing in a 30 acre Lake District Estate providing a wide range of services for those within Carlisle Diocese and beyond.
Penrith Methodist Church Concerts - Information about music concerts that take place at Penrith Methodist Church.
Penrith Methodist Church - General information, what goes on, children's and youth activities.
Keswick Convention - The Keswick Convention has run for two weeks each year for the last 15 years. It gives a depth of insight into the Bible, depth of insight into human nature and the commitment to pass on those insights with clarity, compassion and power.
Manjushri Mahayana Buddhist Centre - A peaceful and inspiring environment where people can learn about the Buddhist way of life and practice meditation. Based at Conishead Priory, near Ulverston.
Saint Catherine's Roman Catholic Parish Church - Serving Penrith and Appleby Shap, Kirkby Stephen. Mass times. Map. Links to sites in East Cumbria and the Lake District. RC Diocese of Lancaster, England.
Kings Church - Cockermouth - Apostolic church associated with New Frontiers International (NFI). Information includes the doctrines and values of the Church.
Carlisle Cathedral - Official guide to Carlisle Cathedral, founded in 1122, and one of the smallest cathedrals in England.
St George's Church - Kendal - Brief guide to St Georges Church, Kendal. Includes people, parish news, and events
Holy Trinity and St George Catholic Parish, Kendal - A history of the church, designed in the neo-Gothic style by local architect George Webster who was responsible for other fine buildings in Kendal. Service times, list of activities, and links to other Catholic sites of interest.
Swarthmoor Hall - Owned by the Society of Friends, The Quakers, and used for training and retreats. Also available for groups of people who might wish to organise their own events - retreats, workshops - either on a self-catering or fully-catered basis.
Mark One Youth Gospel Choir - A christian youth gospel choir based in Whitehaven, who sing at church and charity events. Details of events.
Workington Christian Fellowship - A busy community based Church in Workington, originally the Workington Presbyterian Church. News, history, social events, service information and the Statement of Fundamental Truths.
Urswick Parish Church - Service times and events for this ancient church of St Mary and St Michael in Great Urswick.
St Mary's Church - Harrington, Workington - Service details, history of the church, history of Harrington, and pictures of the new stained glass windows which depict the history of the area.
Bassenthwaite - eBoard - Noticeboard for Bassenthwaite Village, from the Bassenthwaite churches. Services, activities, and the school.
Binsey Team Ministry - Information about the parishes of Allhallows, Bassenthwaite, Bolton, Ireby, Isel, Setmurthy, Torpenhow and Uldale. Parish magazine, current events and information about getting married.
North Cumbria Quakers - Guide to the meetings of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in North Cumbria.
Walney Churches Ecumenical Partnership - Information about the various churches on Walney Island, Barrow-in-Furness.
Carlisle Diocesan Youth Centre - The Youth Centre provides self-catering accommodation for groups of up to 36 people in the heart of the Lake District, and was set up to serve churches and youth organisations in the Carlisle diocese and beyond.
Christian Science Society, Carlisle - Provides information on Christian Science services and the Reading Room.
Salvation Army - Carlisle - The history, events and music of the Salvation Army.
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Mencken Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Religion The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this bre There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -- Virginia Woolf I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Religion Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke Religion Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg Religion In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Religion If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb Religion See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein Religion "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Religion In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Religion I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. -- Edward Chilton "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Religion Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba Religion If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machi If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb Religion Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -- Gloria Steinem Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. -- Mae West Religion Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Religion Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. -- Cybi Religion For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her. -- Benjamin Tillett Religion Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning He who laughs last thinks slowest. -- Seen on a bumper sticker If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein Religion I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Religion Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury Religion
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