Quotes 30 Mar 17

 “You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.” Tim Keller Wisdom‏ @DailyKeller

“The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things, by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the Prophecy also into contempt. The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testaments, not to gratify men’s curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event; and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world. For the event of things predicted many ages before, will then be a convincing argument that the world is governed by providence.” --Isaac Newton, “Observations on the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John” (published
1733)

There have been few more radical changes in the history of Western
culture than the change in attitude towards war and the military
profession brought about by World War I.  Western literature began as
the literature of a warrior aristocracy, and until 1914 it took the
warrior ethic for granted; it assumed that war was glorious, and the
words _hero_ and _warrior_ were almost synonymous.  Conscription and
"sophisticated" weapons have changed all that....
The symbol of the change was the construction after 1918 in all the
belligerent countries of monuments to the Unknown Soldier.  Previously,
monuments had always been erected to known individuals, victorious
generals and admirals.  About the Unknown Soldier nothing is known
whatever except that he lost his life.  For all we know, he may,
personally, have been a coward.  In his monument, that is to say, we pay
homage to the warrior, not as a hero but as a martyr. -- W. H. Auden, _A Certain World_ (1970), s.v. War