Saturday, February 23, 2013

thoughts on government

1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
                                     -- John Adams

2. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
                    -- Mark Twain

3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of  Congress. But then I repeat myself.
                     -- Mark Twain

4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a   man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
                     -- Winston Churchill

5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on   the support of Paul.
                -- George Bernard Shaw

6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off  with your money.
                   -- G. Gordon Liddy

7.  Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep
     voting on what to have for dinner.
             -- James Bovard , Civil Libertarian (1994)

8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor
     people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
                  -- Douglas Case , Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown   University .

9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey
    and car keys to teenage boys.
                  -- P.J. O'Rourke , Civil Libertarian

10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-- Frederic Bastiat , French economist(1801-1850)

11. Government's view of the economy could be summed up  in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it.  If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
            -- Ronald Reagan (1986)

12. I don't make jokes.   I just  watch the government and report the facts.
             -- Will Roger s

13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!
                          -- P. J. O'Rourke

14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. -- Voltaire (1764)

15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you! -- Pericles (430 B.C.)

16. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the  legislature is in session.
                -- Mark Twain (1866)

17. Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it. -- Anonymous

18. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
                   -- Ronald Reagan

19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the  blessings.   The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. --   Winston Churchill

20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.                   --   Mark Twain

21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.                -- Herbert Spencer , nglish Philosopher (1820-1903)

22. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class, save Congress. -- Mark Twain

23. What this country needs are  more unemployed politicians
                   -- Edward Langley ,
                        Artist (1928-1995)

24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything  you have.  -- Thomas Jefferson

25. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public  office. -- Aesop

FIVE SENTENCES

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the
   wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must
   work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to   work, because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to   get what they work for, that is the   beginning of the end of any nation!

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Daily Prayer - This little light

                This little light—I’m going to let it shine---do you remember this is Sunday School?   I do.

                Our Heavenly Father—we come to you today to learn how to light our light and let it shine to show how much we love You.   Blessed all who receives this message today and every day.  Amen

“What I tell you in darkness you must speak in the daylight, and what is whispered in your ear you must shout from the housetops.”   Matthew 10:27

                Jesus is Teaching Here What The True discipleship means.  It is fearing not man, but God.  To live in His Word and to proclaim it to all, not in quiet tones or secretly, but loudly and in an abundance voice.  To shout what the Lord tells us from the rooftops.  He wants us to understand through His teachings that what we have eternally, through Him is much more important than things that can be acquired on Earth.  To fear not what man can do to our body, but what God can do to our soul.
In these passages from the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus tells us exactly like it is.  He is firm, and precise in just what is expected of Christians.  We are held accountable for the light within us.  This light must shine brightly from us to others like the far reaching effect of a lighthouse.  To whom much is given, much shall be required.  Jesus wants us to listen and trust in what we hear and to act on it.  I think this was also a prompt by Jesus for His followers to realize the importance of evangelizing and to make hast in doing it.
                But what happens when we don’t let our light shine?  In Matthew 5:14-16 (ESV), Jesus says that “You are the light of the world.  A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.  Nor do people light a lamp and put in under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.  In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.”

Faith Step:   In what ways can you let your light shine today?           Lisa Watson

Friday, February 1, 2013

Prayer Each Day - Every Knee Shall Bow

    “Good morning Lord.”  Thank you for this day, a day that you have made---I will rejoice and be glad in it.

'My husband is a managing producer of a local public television affiliate.  He interacts with various celebrities as part of his work.  One day he had to call an Olympic ice-skater who hosted a project they produced.  Another day he was in meetings with a well-known actor who was narrating a documentary.
  "One night over supper he told me about his day and again mentioned several names I recognized.
   “Do you realize how cool it sounds that you chat with those people?”  I said.    
    Even though I knew they were just people---with strengths and weaknesses common to all of us---I couldn’t help but be impressed by those “big names.”             
    These names I recognized, yet I was able to sit beside them at meals, listen to their opinions, interact in some way.
    Those encounters are fun, but it’s more exciting to know the Name above all names.  Even athletes, actors, or politicians with the most famous of names will one day bow to Him.  Yet He invites us to total access.  We are always welcome into His presence.  Jesus is the encounter I can be most excited to tell others about, the name I most want to share.

“…That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”   Philippians 2:10-11

Faith Step:  Imagine you were able to meet someone famous that you’ve long admired.  How would you feel?  Go into your prayer time with that same excitement as you meet with Jesus.             Sharon  Hinch

Thanks, Don for sharing the Daily Prayer