He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more. P. G. Wodehouse
One of the most haunting sentences I have read in recent years is in a memoir of The Troubles by the distinguished journalist Kevin Myers. In Watching the Door, he referred to the nadir of the violence in Northern Ireland. A stage had been arrived at, Myers said, in which people had utterly different perceptions and interpretations of the facts happening around them, interpreting their own versions of events through the lens of their own sectarian side. Even words had become meaningless. “In the absence of an agreed reality,” Myers wrote, the province had gotten to the stage where truth was “whatever you’re having yourself.”- How America Can Recover from the Kavanaugh Confirmation Controversy, DOUGLAS MURRAY, October 2, 2018, https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-controversy-amercias-recovery/
There are no shortcuts in the Christian life--no simple remedies. - Martyn Lloyd-Jones
If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he
should arise sound the next morning; or a man today,
in despicable poverty, had assurance that he should
tomorrow arise a prince; would they be afraid to go
to bed? --Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
(In Isaac David Thomas' _The Golden Treasury
Of Puritan Quotations_ [1975], "Death")
If you want everyone to be happy, don’t be a pastor. Go sell ice cream.- Joshua D Jones
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