The Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement (LGCM) - UK based international charity for an inclusive church. Providing press releases, links, discussion, prayers, links, schedule of events, contact information, and bible study.
True Freedom Trust - Conversion ministry offering Christian support and teachings. Articles, upcoming events, and testimonies.
Quest - Organisation for lesbian and gay Catholics in the UK, reconciling faith and sexuality. Information, support, social events. Quest is a registered national charity.
Outcome - Methodist organisation which seeks to build an inclusive church and offers support to gay and lesbian, bisexual and transgendered ministers and lay people. Aims, events and contact.
Queer Turn - Personal homepage of a gay Christian doctor with information on gay medics.
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Religion and Spirituality A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Religion and Spirituality
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere 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 blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Religion and Spirituality "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Religion and Spirituality
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Religion and Spirituality Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Religion and Spirituality
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Religion and Spirituality A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Religion and Spirituality
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Religion and Spirituality Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "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 Religion and Spirituality
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea 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 My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Religion and Spirituality "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Religion and Spirituality
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Religion and Spirituality If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Religion and Spirituality
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Religion and Spirituality I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Religion and Spirituality
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Religion and Spirituality "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Religion and Spirituality
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Religion and Spirituality "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Religion and Spirituality
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Religion and Spirituality If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "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) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Religion and Spirituality
