EMAIL BRIGADE NEWS REPORT QUOTES I see smart and educated people clinging to a wrecked belief system like that Italian tourist ship that just flipped on its side. The genuine liberalism of Harry Truman, JFK, and Walter Lippmann is dead as a doornail. Instead we have the left radicalism of Obama, who grew up on the hard, hard Stalinist left. - James Lewis +++ When pragmatism is used to make judgments about right and wrong, or when it becomes a guiding philosophy of life and ministry, it inevitably clashes with Scripture. Spiritual and biblical truth is not determined by testing what "works" and what doesn't. -John MacArthur +++ Republican voters need to remember that the ultraliberals who run our national media are nowhere near the mainstream on the culture or on any other vital American issue. When they insist a conservative candidate really needs to move to the middle, perhaps conservatives ought to push back and ask when was the last time these people were anywhere near the center. They couldn't find it with a pair of binoculars. - Brent Bozxell +++ This was a year in which the cast members of "Jersey Shore" went to Italy and then -- in an inexcusable lapse of border security -- were allowed to return. -Dave Barry +++ A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. -- C.S. Lewis +++ A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. -- C.S. Lewis One pastor said, "I could never lead our church to discipline its members. There are so many immoral people among us at present that it would cause a huge conflict." This mindset is precisely the reason why so many churches are ineffective in changing the culture and in bringing people into a lifestyle that is radically different. - Jim Elliff +++ I just hope your opposition doesn't turn into blind hatred of the country. Remember, this is a great country for all of its faults. --President Richard Nixon to a Viet Nam protestor +++ Government did not invent marriage, and it is astonishing that it is seeking to legally redefine it at the behest of a small minority.  What is to stop it being redefined further? There is a very real risk of definition-creep. If marriage is redefined who is to say that, for example, polygamy should not be legalised?" -- Scottish church leaders over the impact of redefining marriage +++ Four thousand a day. Every day. In a year, Planned Parenthood alone destroys over 300,000 lives. Which is about the population of Lexington, Kentucky, my hometown. --Charmaine Yoest +++ "What I'm saying is that if he could shed his ethnicity today, if he could become what I would call the color of water, he would do it."  Goldie Taylor's comment about Herman Cain to MSNBC's Martin Bashir +++ Rather than heed a Bible-based, Christ-centric model, transformational churchianity practices outcome-based, purpose-driven religion managed by objectives that are geared toward serving customers. -Debra Rae +++ It seems odd, that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves, should think so little of what he has revealed to others. - Charles Spurgeon +++ Years ago, such brethren would not have been baptised until they were clear of the world, but now you can go to seminary, no questions asked, and take up a pastorate, with unfought and unsurrendered idols in the throne room of your life. What hope is there for churches that have under-shepherds whose loyalties are so divided and distorted? - Peter Masters +++ The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers. - Dave Barry +++ An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation. --John Marshall +++ Did the Lord Jesus encourage His disciples to listen sympathetically to other religious leaders of that time? His answer is given in Matt. 7:15: "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves." Yet we are told today by neoevangelicals that we should both teach and study in liberal universities and colleges of theology. -- John Whitcomb +++ No one sets out to become an apostate - it's never the result of one abrupt, drastic turn away from the Lord. Instead, apostasy is most often the product of a pattern of sinful compromises that harden and gradually steer a professing believer away from the truth. - John MacArthur +++ He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. --Thomas Paine +++ If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God. --R.C. Sproul +++ In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. - Mark Twain +++ "You know the Supreme Court of the United States on a recent case said that a man who committed rape could not be killed, could not be subject to the death penalty, yet the child conceived as a result of that rape could be. That to me sounds like a country that doesn't have its morals correct. That child did nothing wrong. That child is an innocent victim. To be victimized twice would be a horrible thing. It is an innocent human life. It is genetically human from the moment of conception, and it is a human life, and we in America should be big enough to try to surround ourselves and help women in those terrible situations who have been traumatized already, [to] put them through another trauma of abortion? I think it's too much to ask and so I would absolutely stand and say that one violence is enough." - Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum +++ If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds. (2 John 9-11) +++ It is that which thou art most loath to hear that thou hast most need to hear; instead of being angry with him who points it out to thee, thou shouldst be willing to pay him for doing it.--Charles Haddon Spurgeon +++ Though the world may ridicule, though philosophers may sneer, though the rich and the gay may deride it, yet this is to be the grand object of interest to him; and at no time, and in no society, is to be ashamed of it. It matters not what are the amusements of society around him; what fields of science, or gain, or ambition, are open before him; the minister of Christ is to know Christ and him crucified alone. --Charles Spurgeon +++ Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. ----Philippians 4:6-7 +++ You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside. --Oswald Chambers . +++ The Muslim Brotherhood's motto: "Allah is our objective, the Prophet is our leader, the Koran is our law, Jihad is our way, and dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope -- Allahu Akbar!" +++ The enthusiastic endorsement of violence, particularly against Israel, would be surprising only to those who drink the Obama Kool-Aid that claims the Brotherhood has renounced violence. - Andrew McCarthy +++ As long as Obama's in the Oval Office or on the golf course or in some diner eating greasy hamburgers or in charge of the executive branch, as long as his party controls any part of Congress, this nation cannot recover. - Rush Limbaugh +++ A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. - Sir Winston Churchill +++ A man may have KNOWLEDGE, much light; he may know much of God and his will, much of Christ and his ways-- and yet be but almost a Christian. -- Matthew Mead +++ California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange. --Fred Allen +++ A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ' darkness' on the walls of his cell. - C.S. Lewis +++ "Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question of whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of its life. And that is nothing but murder." --Dietrich Bonheoffer +++ Osama bin Laden is dead, but we never had the satisfaction of seeing him arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced. We were robbed of the satisfaction of seeing the evidence against him laid out, and seeing him have to answer the world about his murderous actions and plans. We were robbed of the moral satisfaction that comes by means of a fair and clear verdict, followed by a just and appropriate sentence. - Albert Mohler +++ I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. --Thomas Paine +++ We didn't elect you just to rearrange the deck chairs on a sinking Titanic; we didn't elect you just to stand back and watch Obama redistribute those deck chairs." - Sarah Palin +++ It is a plain truth that we are cousins of chimpanzees, somewhat more distant cousins of monkeys, more distant cousins still of aardvarks and manatees, yet more distant cousins of bananas and turnips …continue the list as long as desired. --Richard Dawkins, world renowned Christian basher +++ Men like Brian McLaren are hijacking the visible church by taking it away from the proper Christian spirituality of sola Scriptura and into a highly subjective murky mysticism where one decides  truth about God by what they "feel" He is saying. - Ken SilvaI +++ I cannot say exactly what we believe except that experience is a higher authority than Scripture. I do not believe the Bible is the Word of God, I believe Jesus is…Scripture has no hierarchy over other books, it is inspiring the way a quantum physics book is. --Danielle Shroyer, pastor of Journey Church +++ How can a populace which still, comparatively speaking, enjoys the highest standard of living on earth--with a car or two in every garage and rooms full of electronic gadgets--be as depressed as statistics lead us to believe? Maybe the answer is our "entertainment" options and, of course, drugs to "cure" it. --Beverly Eakman +++ He swore an oath on the Bible to become president that he would uphold the Constitution and enforce the laws of the United States.  He is not a one-person Supreme Court. The idea that we now have the rule of Obama instead of the rule of law should frighten everybody. --Newt Gingrich +++ I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. --Martha Washington +++ We are an America that has a government - not the other way around. - President Ronald Reagan +++ Most professors now believe it is desirable for students to get a college "education" without ever encountering a conservative professor. Their idea of "liberal education" is nothing more than a poorly disguised war on conservatism. - Mike S. Adams +++ Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it is (alive). And, thus, it should be entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. --Ronald Reagan +++ Just ask yourself this. If the shooter had been a 22-year-old named Muhammad, would we be hearing that Muslim talk radio and the Muslim Internet blamed for it? No, we'd have been told that we can't blame Muslims for the action of one kook. -- Rush Limbaugh Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp. --Paul Little +++ Members of Hollywood's left generally live in a left-wing cocoon. What strikes most people who live outside of that cocoon as irrational and immoral is often regarded as brilliant in that world. -Dennis Prager +++ Our moral decadence has most certainly not escaped the attention of an all powerful, all-knowing, and all-seeing God, a God with the uninhibited ability to in an instant extinguish our existence with fire and scatter our ashes to the wind. ---Jim Schwiesow +++ Here, then, is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy. --R. C. Sproul +++ have written you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people-- not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat. What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? God will judge those outside.  "Expel the wicked man from among you." --1 Cor 5:9-13 +++ "Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven,  which I revere above all earthly kings." --Patrick Henry +++ Please pray that those in the evangelical church who still understand and speak God's language, will read the station signs they are passing, slam on the brakes, and call God's people to climb back out onto the platform and to board the Scripture train, going in the right direction. - Peter Jones +++ The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian. -- A.W. Tozier +++ Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass  it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." - Ronald Reagan +++ New York City has spent $700 million of taxpayer dollars to get residents to stop using plastic water bottles. Many cities are now taxing each bottle used. A classic move - right out of the government handbook. Vilify it and then tax it. --Tom De Weese HOME     UP