At Stratford-on-Bow, in the days of Queen Mary, there was once a stake erected for the burning of two martyrs, one of them a lame man and the other a blind man. Just when the fire was lit, the lame man hurled away his staff and said to the blind man,
"Courage, brother, this fire will cure us both!" So can the righteous say of the grave, "Courage, the grave will cure us all; we shall leave our infirmities behind us."
What patience this should give us to endure all our trials, for they are not of long duration. -C.H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) _Resurgam_ [April 1, 1860] (sermon) http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/0306.htm
Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! -Joseph Campbell (1904-1987)(In R. Daniel Watkins'_An Encyclopedia of Compelling Quotations_ [2001 "Disaster")
In his eighty-seventh year Justice Holmes was out walking with another elderly friend when a pretty girl passed them. The judge turned to watch her and then sighed, "Oh, to be seventy again!" -_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.]
The Royal Crown cures not the headache.-George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651)
The six Gulf cooperation countries comprising Kuwait, Iran, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Oman had granted asylum to a grand total of zero Syrian refugees by 2016.“Not only has Saudi Arabia not made one Syrian into a Saudi citizen, it has also refused to allow the use of 100,000 air-conditioned tents there are erected for only five days a year by pilgrims and the Hajj. At the height of the 2015 crisis the single offer the Saudis did make as to build 200 new mosques in Germany for the benefit of the country’s new arrivals”Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe, p 212
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