Hugh’s Quote of the Day:
“No, no, I’ve got ‘em right where I want ‘em – surrounded from the inside.” — Mad Dog Shriver when told to break up his recon team and evade, that he was about to be overrun by North Vietnamese Regulars.
“No, no, I’ve got ‘em right where I want ‘em – surrounded from the inside.” — Mad Dog Shriver when told to break up his recon team and evade, that he was about to be overrun by North Vietnamese Regulars.
“When there are very real enemies out there who have declared their intentions about us, we had better get our feet back on to earth and real quick. That is not the time to try to see a silver lining in every cloud. That is the time to wake up and prepare for battle.” – Bill Muehlenberg
“I told Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson, then age 105, that she was the only person over 80 who I’d ever met who never referred to her physical infirmities or health problems. To which she replied, “I have my difficulties; I do not rejoice in them.” ? Patricia Mulcahy, It Is Well with My Soul: The Extraordinary Life of a 106-Year-Old Woman
“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.” ? Winston S. Churchill
“And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him.” – Mark 3:13 (KJV)
“One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.” – Exodus 12:49 (KJV)
“My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.” ? John Marsden, A Killing Frost
“Grief is like the ocean; it comes in waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” ? Vicki Harrison
“The biggest threat against the survival of humanity is not brutality and unkindness, it is stupidity and selfishness.” ? M.F. Moonzajer
“The care of the soul is ‘a matter of the highest importance’; beyond anything which can be brought into comparison with it.” – George Whitefield
“The test of character is not ‘hanging in’ when you expect light at the end of the tunnel, but performance of duty and persistence of example when you know no light is coming” – former U.S. Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale
“And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out? How much then is a man better than a sheep?” Matthew 12:11-12a (KJV)
“And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.” Exodus 10:3 (KJV)
“The world is crazy and the spiritual culture is lazy. But, like parents that never stop hoping, praying, and trying to be a positive influence for our children, we cannot stop hoping and trying to impact the world in areas of spirituality.” – Boaz Michael
“Compassion is the key to the ultimate survival of our species.” ? Doug Dillon