All Things British

I have to admit to being a bit of an anglophile. So when I came across this blog today while researching the true story of William Wilberforce, I was simply delighted. One of the authors at Brits at their Best, Sharing the Inheritance, asserts that this inheritance includes...

liberty, love of God, reason, imagination, fair play, a generous and forgiving
spirit, the rule of just law, representative government, books, gardens, music,
art, sports, inventions. . .

I couldn't agree more!

Then I found this guide to British slang. That could come in quite handy when my husband and I watch our favorite British murder mysteries.

And if I find out anything interesting about WW, that will be a post for another day. I loved the movie, Amazing Grace. My inquiring mind simply wants to know how close it comes to the actual facts and where/how it was tweaked.

I went looking for a quote for another context and in the process found a few that I wanted to post here from one of my favorite authors, C.S. Lewis.

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.