Airedale Deanery - In the Diocese of Bradford has member Parishes in Bradford, Shipley, Bingley area. Includes service times and newsletters.
Birstall and Spen Methodist Circuit - Covering ten churches. Detailed information on the churches with links, Alpha course, youth, links and circuit profile with photos.
Catholic Diocese of Leeds - History and statistics, directory of parishes by location, information on schools in the diocese, curriculum vitae of the bishop, information on diocesan offices and ministries.
Elland and Ryburn Methodist Circuit - Offers photos and details of the churches which make up the group. Prayers, mission, people, message, preaching plan and a map.
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Christianity "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Christianity
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Christianity Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Christianity
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Christianity It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Christianity
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Christianity Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Christianity
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Christianity I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Christianity
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) 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 Christianity Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Christianity
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Christianity The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Christianity
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Christianity Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Christianity
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Christianity "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Christianity
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "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) Christianity We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 Christianity
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Christianity A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Christianity
