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Parish of St James - A Forward in Faith parish in the Anglican diocese of Lichfield. Include geography, sociology, and history, with information about social concern, training, and weekly services.
Wednesbury Deanery - Located in the southern part of the Diocese of Lichfield. Includes information about each of the 11 parishes.
St Francis of Assisi, Friar Park - Anglican Church. Includes location and contact information.
Moxley Methodist Church - Services, photos, activities, centenary and contact. Part of the Walsall circuit.
Leabrook Methodist Church - Offers mission statement, church profile, services, activities, news, worship music group, Alpha Course, contacts, links and Future Shock a Christian theatre company. In the Tipton circuit.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. -- Diane Ackerman 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 "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Society and Culture The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Society and Culture The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi Society and Culture blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory. -- Albert Schweitzer Society and Culture Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. 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 Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Society and Culture "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry Society and Culture There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues 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 Unha Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous Society and Culture You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell Society and Culture Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Society and Culture What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. -- Anonymous Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid 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" Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement. -- Cousin Woodman It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Society and Culture Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves Society and Culture We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche "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) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude Work is the curse of the drinking class. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Society and Culture Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Society and Culture I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Society and Culture Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman Society and Culture "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "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 Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake Society and Culture Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Society and Culture
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