Diocese of Bath and Wells - Information about the people, places and mission of the Anglican church in historical Somerset.
Channels of His Love - Joint venture of the Frome, Midsomer Norton and West Mendip Circuits of The Methodist Church providing a programme in pastoral care. Includes speaker profiles, fees and meeting notes.
Somerset Mission Methodist Circuit - A group of ten rural churches offering an overview, churches, devotions, young people, notices, links and places to visit.
Somerset Churches Together - Aims and contact details for the Diocese of Bath and Wells branch of this group.
Baha'i's of North Somerset - History of the group and details of their activities and forthcoming events.
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-- Virginia Woolf If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
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You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
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-- Victor Hugo "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
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-- G. K. Chesterton The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Religion
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
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-- Ellen DeGeneres Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
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-- Mae West One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Religion I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
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-- H. L. Mencken Religion
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
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outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Religion He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
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help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Religion There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
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-- Albert Einstein Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
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-- P. J. O'Rourke Religion
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
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don't know and Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
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-- Henry Ford Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Religion
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Religion Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
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The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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-- Schopenhauer "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') In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
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Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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