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Church of the Nazarene, Morley - Details of worship and other activities of this Wesleyan evangelical church south of Leeds.

Morley Church of Christ - Information about the church, its mission, services, and programme of activities.

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u 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 Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Society and Culture "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons Society and Culture What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert Schuller "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Society and Culture Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Society and Culture It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 Society and Culture "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Society and Culture Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Society and Culture I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name." -- Mike Binder I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. -- Guy Kawasaki Society and Culture Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional convi My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Society and Culture In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. -- Mortimer J. Adler I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Society and Culture We must become the change we want to see. -- Gandhi Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. -- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. Society and Culture To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra Society and Culture Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle Marriage is a rest period between romances. blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Society and Culture I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric Society and Culture Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake Society and Culture "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) 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 Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Society and Culture We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous Society and Culture "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Society and Culture Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Society and Culture
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