“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 page 316
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. -Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) _New York Times_ [May 12, 1968]
I believe that love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve. --Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)(In Edmond and Jules de Goncourt's _Pages From The Goncourt Journals_ [1962];"Saturday, 2 March 1872)
Time, the subtle thief of youth.--John Milton (1608-1_On His Having Arrived at the Age
of Twenty-three_ [1631]
“The worst cloud of all is deep depression of spirit' and “to be forsaken of God.””
“The worst ill in the world is a depressed spirit.”
“Of all things in the world to be, dreaded despair is the chief.”
“Depression is . . . the shadow of death.”
“Depression is . . . my horror of great darkness.”
“depression of spirit” is “deep” when “accompanied with the loss of the light of God’s countenance.”- Charles Spurgeon
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