The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks. --Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) _Ponkapog Papers [1903], "Leaves From A Notebook"
" Our call is first to be the bride [of Christ] faithful, but that is not the total call. The call is not only to be the bride faithful, but to be the bride in love." ~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, The Church Before the Watching World
"As long as you live, beware of a religion in which there is not much cross. You live in a time when the warning is sadly needful. Beware, I say again, of a religion without the cross. - J C Ryle, Old Paths
One of the great myths of life is that childhood passes quickly. In fact, because time moves more
slowly in Kid World--five times more slowly in a classroom on a hot afternoon, eight times more slowly on any car journey of more than five miles (rising to eighty-six times more slowly when driving across Nebraska or Pennsylvania lengthwise), and so slowly during the last week before birthdays, Christmases, and summer vacations as to be functionally immeasurable--it goes on for decades when measured in adult terms. It is adult life that is over in a twinkling. -Bill Bryson (1951- ) _The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid_ [2006], Chapter 2
The area (middle belt of Nigeria before colonialism ) became a virtual slave farm. - TOYIN FALOLA Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria – 2009, quoted in Helon Habila, The Chibok Girls, 2017
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