Beit Yeshua - North-East Messianic Fellowship - A fellowship of Jews and gentiles who believe Jesus is the messiah. Details of beliefs, events, conferences and contact information.
Revival In The North-East Of England - Historical accounts of what God has done in the region in the past. Features ministry of John Wesley, William Booth and other local ministers.
Metro Church - Led by Pastors Ken and Lois Gott meets on a Sunday in Washington and Long Benton. Office in Sunderland.
Saint Cuthbert's RC Church - Kenton. Includes Mass schedule, parish groups, maps, photo gallery and parish history.
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Religion Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Religion
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Religion If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Religion
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Religion "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Religion
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Religion "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Religion
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Religion Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Religion
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Religion Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Religion
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Religion "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Religion
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde 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 Religion A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth 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 "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Religion
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Religion "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Religion
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Religion If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Religion
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Religion The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Religion