My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.
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Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.
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Sinn Fein welcomes the decision by the Ulster Unionist council.
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I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.
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2 John 1:11:
Anyone who welcomes them shares in their wicked work.
(NIV)
For he who wishes him success [who encourages him, wishing him Godspeed] is a partaker in his evil doings.
(AMP)
For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
(KJV)
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Hebrews 12:6:
'Because the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his child.'
(NIV)
For the Lord corrects and disciplines everyone whom He loves, and He punishes, even scourges, every son whom He accepts and welcomes to His heart and cherishes.
(AMP)
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
(KJV)
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