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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.


J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley

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J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945 It is easy to criticise ...
J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute ...
J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Jesus, like all other religious leaders, taug...
J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936 It should be noted, at...
J. B. PHILLIPS A man can not be "friends with" God on any other terms than complete obedience to Him, and that incl...
J. B. PHILLIPS We may with complete detachment study and form a judgement upon a religion, but we cannot maintain o...
J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle The defenders of the Jargon and phrases of the Church's traditi...
J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258 There are doubtless many reasons for the degener...
J. B. PHILLIPS I did not expect to hear that it could be, in an assembly convened for the propagation of Christian ...
J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877 If our hopes, whatever we...
J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of All Saints What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not...
J. B. PHILLIPS So long as a man confines his ideas of Christ to a rather misty hero figure of long ago who died a t...
J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 Our thoughtful observer who is outside th...
J. B. PHILLIPS God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they ...
J. B. PHILLIPS The 'outsider' who knows nothing of the mixture of tradition, conviction, honest difference, and hid...
J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Andrew the Apostle I would very earnestly ask you to check your conception of Christ, th...
J. B. PHILLIPS Maundy Thursday There is joy and strength, of course, in this holy food and drink, but it is also...
J. B. PHILLIPS One of Paul's most important teachings... is the doctrine of what we call "justification by faith". ...
J. B. PHILLIPS Suppose Christianity is not a religion but a way of life, a falling in love with God, and, through H...
J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 The preacher and the writer ma...
J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 It is a singularl...
J. B. PHILLIPS From the crude cry which we have so often heard during the war years: "If there is a God, why doesn'...
J. B. PHILLIPS Jesus once declared that God is "good to the ungrateful and the wicked" (St. Luke 6:35), and I remem...
J. B. PHILLIPS I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.
J. B. SMOOVE I'm on my version of the protein diet, but there ain't no protein in it. It's a Krispy K...
J. B. SMOOVE The cruelest revenge of a woman is to remain faithful to a man
J. B. BOSSUET I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I&...
J. B. SMOOVE But even the Christian, for all this satisfying and hopeful conviction, does not know the meaning of...
J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936 [The Christian] refus...
J. B. PHILLIPS If New Testament Christianity is to reappear today with its power and joy and courage, men must reca...
J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637 To me the...
J. B. PHILLIPS The testimony of the New Testament cannot be lightly disregarded, nor can the claims of Christ be ai...
J. B. PHILLIPS I have heard professing Christians of our own day speak as though the historicity of the Gospels doe...
J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 Much of today's...
J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres...
J. B. PHILLIPS What I am concerned with here is not to write a new life of Jesus, but to set down my witness to the...
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