Sorry, I should also included
my thanks for the great range of quotes from that “Most Reluctant
Christian”, C.S.Lewis, arguably the best of which was:
"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."
Tony
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Mobile: 0439 995 003
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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
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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 Johnstown
videos and then go on to some of the other churches that I filmed on the second
tour I was on. I might even go back and re-do some of the concerts from
the first tour I filmed.
I did have
a hard drive crash and lost all the work I did on the JohnstownPA
concert before I could save it out to dvd, so I have spent the last 3 days
uploading it to my computer from my camera and re-doing all of the editing from
the entire concert. All the videos I post will be of much higher quality
than anything that I posted on Don and Wendy’s site as each song is
between 800 and 1000 megabytes that I upload to you tube for their encoder to
take it from and they are all coming off the original masters for all concerts.
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 Johnstown,
I’ll go on to Canton,
and two or three other churches from that tour. It’s pretty much
the same songs over and over again with the same comments on the songs, but
that is what a tour is like as not much new material is played on tour from one
church to the next and the majority of the songs are those that Don has song
for the last 30 years. I’ve got some very good footage from Mary Beth’s
church in Main with the exception
of some focusing problems with some of my cameras. The humidity was very
high when I filmed that even caused all of the floors to become all wet and it
caused my cameras not to focus as well. Anyway it’s all free to post
to you tube so I’ll post everything I’ve got eventually good and
bad. It might get a little repetitive after a while but again it’s
free and you all can choose to watch them or not. The only work involved
is coming from my side on this and I really need some busy work to keep me
occupied after I lost the friendship of my best friend and Christian sister
recently. I'm actually starting to really relate to some of the
very old quotes by C.S. Lewis:
“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.
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.
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 Germany
and then announced he was on our side. God will invade. But I
wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and irectly in our world
quite realise what it will be like when He does. When that happens, it is
the end of the world. When the author walks on to the stage the play is
over. God is going to invade, all right: but what is the good of saying
you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away
like a dream and something else-something it never entered your head to
conceive-comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so
terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this
time it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will
strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every
creature. It will be too late then to choose your side. There is no
use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand
up. That will not be the time for choosing; it will be the time when we
discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realised it or not.
Now, today, this moment, is our chance to coose the right side. God is
holding back to give us that chance. It will not last for ever. We
must take it or leave it. -Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
"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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Sorry, I should also included my thanks for the great range of quotes from that "Most Reluctant Christian", C.S.Lewis, arguably the best of which was: "I...
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