Leicester Cathedral - Comprehensive information, including floor plan, brief history and illustrated tour of the medieval Church of St Martin which became a cathedral in 1927.
The Diocese of Leicester - Information and details of the mission, clergy, churches and resources of the diocese.
St Mary de Castro - Information and history with photos of past events. [Located in Leicester]
Jain Centre Leicester - Extensive information and history of the religion and temple. Large photo gallery, location details and contact.
Holy Trinity Church, Barrow upon Soar - Dedicated to this church and its sister church St Mary's, Walton le Wolds. History, rector details, events calendar and general information.
Bradgate Parish - Church of England parish serving Ratby, Groby and Newtown Linford. Information on these villages and their history.
BBC Online Leicester - Faith - Features on the diverse faiths, festivals and religious beliefs in the Leicester community.
The East Midlands Buddhist Association - Group in Braunston working under the guidance and direction of a Buddhist monk. Vihara activities, events and newsletter.
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 Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray 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 "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Religion One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Religion
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Religion I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Religion
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Religion "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Religion
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Religion "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Religion
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Religion I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Religion
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Marriage is a rest period between romances. May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Religion The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Religion
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Religion "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Religion
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Religion Man and wife make one fool. Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Religion
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Religion Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Religion
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Religion Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Religion
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Religion Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Religion
