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Hey Dan
Great job on the video of
“We Will Ride” – looking forward to more as they come.
Just one itty-bitty challenge – in your
brief description on YouTube you say it is of Wendy’s performance on
7-10-09. But no matter how you present
a date, that is still quite sometime in the future by my reckoning!
But please keep up the great work and
plans.
Tony
When all you have is God, you
have all you need!
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Hi all,
With the advances
in the free you tube service with the high quality button selection.
I’ve decided to upload all of the
I did have a hard
drive crash and lost all the work I did on the
For those that
haven’t heard from me for a while, I’ve been a Bible study teacher
at a local church and also have filmed their special event choir
services. I did lose the ability to film with two of the three
professional cameras I used at Don and Wendy’s concerts. There was
a defect in the first two cameras that I purchased that Sony honored for 2
years on a free send in for repair service. However, the cameras had to
show the defect before they would fix them and two of my cameras went bad
during the filming of the last Easter service at my church and the free repair
service is no longer honored by Sony. The cost for repair of both of them
will come to about 1000 dollars and so I’m been pretty down on that but
did think that I better get all of the usable tour footage edited and posted
before my final camera goes on me.
After I get every
single song posted from
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything,
and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make
sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an
animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all
entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But
in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be
broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”
“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before.
That's the deal.”
"[Pain] removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth
within the fortress of a rebel soul."
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in
our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf
world”
All of the videos
will be posted at the below link when I get them uploaded.
http://www.youtube.
Dan
I also have had a
page up on you tube for a very long time dedicated to Gary Cooper with some of
his very old 1930’s movies that are not available to purchase and some
extremely rare Grand Old Opry footage of Jim Reeves in pristine quality.
The Grand Old Opry footage and the last two Gary Cooper movies Desire and If I
Had A Million were uploaded in the new high quality settings of youtube and
simply look incredible for such old material.
http://www.youtube.
Below are
some more C.S. Lewis quotes. He was really quite a quotable person after
all:
"Of all
bad men religious bad men are the worst."
"History
is a story written by the finger of God."
"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form
of every virtue at the testing point."
"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the
end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft
soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."
"In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the
facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are."
"We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully
conscious we discover loneliness..
“You will never know how much you believe something
until it is a matter of life and death.” “If you think of this
world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite
intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it’s
not so bad.”
"All that we call human history--money, poverty,
ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible
story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him
happy."
"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish
for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun
has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything
else."
"[God] is
not proud...He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything
else to Him."
"God will
look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love."
"There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is
as hard as nails...If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft."
"Those who would like the God of scripture to be more
purely ethical, do not know what they ask."
"Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a
desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got
out of the Author's control."
"Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard
is the best evidence for what sort of man he is..."
"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence
of God."
"It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the
truth."
"Love is something more stern and splendid than mere
kindness."
"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say
'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you
want to talk about something really infinite."
"We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's
there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it."
"When we are such as He can love without impediment, we
shall in fact be happy."
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for
the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live
under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's
cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but
those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do
so with the approval of their own conscience."
"Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present
life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious,
the self-righteous, are in that danger."
"Democracy demands that little men should not take big
ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are
big themselves."
"Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only
dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our
shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well
governed?"
"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the
gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones,
without signposts."
"There are two equal and opposite errors into which our
race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The
other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.
They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a
magician with the same delight."
- C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Chief demon Screwtape to his nephew apprentice Wormwood
"I wonder you should ask me whether it is essential to
keep the patient in ignorance of your own existence. That question, at least
for the present phase of the struggle, has been answered for us by the High
Command. Our policy, for the moment, is to conceal ourselves. Of course this
has not always been so. We are really faced with a cruel dilemma. When the
humans disbelieve in our existence we lose all the pleasing results of direct
terrorism, and we make no magicians. On the other hand, when they believe in
us, we cannot make them materialists and sceptics. At least, not yet. I have
great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise and mythologise
their science to such an extent that what is, in effect. a belief in us (though
not under that name) will creep in while the human mind remains closed to
belief in the enemy. The “Life Force,” the worship of sex, and some
aspects of Psychoanalysis may here prove useful. If once we can produce our
perfect work—the Materialist Magician, the man, not using, but veritably
worshipping, what he vaguely calls “Forces” while denying the
existence of “spirits”—then the end of the war will be in
sight. But in the meantime we must obey our orders. I do not think you will
have much difficulty in keeping the patient in the dark. The fact that
“devils” are predominantly comic figures in the modern imagination
will help you. If any faint suspicion of your existence begins to arise in his
mind, suggest to him a picture of something in red tights, and persuade him
that since he cannot believe in that (it is an old textbook method of confusing
them) he therefore cannot believe in you."
The Screwtape Letters 1941
"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really
foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a
great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one
thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things
Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic --
on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be
the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the
Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a
fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet
and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense
about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did
not intend to." – Mere
Christianity, pages 40-41.
"Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than
those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it already."
"God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human
form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect
because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man."
"Another possible objection is this. Why is God
landing in this enemy-occupied world in disguise and starting a sort of secret
society to undermine the devil? Why is He not landing in force, invading it? Is
it that He is not strong enough? Well Christians think He is going to
land in force; we do not know when. But we can guess why He is
delaying. He wants to give us the chance of joining His side
freely. I do not suppose you and I would have thought much of a Frenchman
who waited till the Allies were marching into
"Christians, then, believe that an evil power has made
himself for the present the Prince of this World. And, of course, that raises
problems. Is this state of affairs in accordance with God's will or not? If it
is, He is a strange God, you will say: and if it is not, how can anything
happen contrary to the will of a being with absolute power?
But
anyone who has been in authority knows how a thing can be in accordance with
your will in one way and not in another. It may be quite sensible for a mother
to say to the children, "I'm not going to go and make you tidy the
schoolroom every night. You've got to learn to keep it tidy on your own."
Then she goes up one night and finds the Teddy bear and the ink and the French
Grammar all lying in the grate. That is against her will. She would prefer the
children to be tidy. But on the other hand, it is her will which has left the
children free to be untidy. The same thing arises in any regiment, or trade
union, or school. You make a thing voluntary and then half the people do not do
it. That is not what you willed, but your will made it possible." Mere
Christianity
"Of
course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way:
apparently He thought it worth the risk. Perhaps we feel inclined to disagree
with Him. But there is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the
source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and He
wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are
arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able
to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on. If God
thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free
will--that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or
harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which
only moves when He pulls the strings--then we make take it it is worth paying.
" Mere Christianity
"I have heard some people complain that if Jesus was
God as well as man, then His sufferings and death lose all value in their eyes,
"because it must have been so easy for him." Others may (very
rightly) rebuke the ingratitude and ungraciousness of this objection; what
staggers me is the misunderstanding it betrays. In one sense, of course, those
who make it are right. They have even understated their own case. The perfect
submission, the perfect suffering, the perfect death were not only easier to
Jesus because He was God, but were possible only because He was God. But surely
that is a very odd reason for not accepting them? The teacher is able to for
the letters for the child because the teacher is grown-up and knows how to
write. That, of course, makes it easier for the teacher; and only because it is
easier for him can he help the child. If it rejected him because "it's
easy for grown-ups" and waited to learn writing from another child who
could not write itself (and so had no "unfair" advantage), it would
not get on very quickly. If I am drowning in a rapid river, a man who still has
one foot on the bank may give me a hand which saves my life. Ought I to shout
back (between my gasps) "No, its not fair!" You have an advantage!
You're keeping one foot on the bank"? That advantage--call it
"unfair" if you like--is the only reason why he can be of any use to
me. To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is
stronger than yourself? " Mere Christianity
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