Churches Acting Together - Apply Christian concepts to the provision of services which meet the needs of disadvantaged members of the community. Details of projects and contacts.
North Shields Baptist Church - Located in the town centre and serving a wide area. Service times, bible studies, news and events.
North Shields Methodist Church - Services, activities, church council, developments and news sheet. Part of the North Shields and Whitley Bay circuit.
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) 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. "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Religion "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Religion
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Religion "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) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Religion
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Religion A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Religion
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Religion It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Religion
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Religion Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Religion
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) 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 "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) 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 "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Religion Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Religion
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Religion I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Religion
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Religion Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Religion
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Religion "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Religion
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Religion Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Religion
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Religion When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Religion
