“Future prosperity will not be based or sustained…by building big financial sectors. It is an economy based on real resources: On energy, ocean, natural resources, as well as the capabilities of people.” – Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, addressing Alaskan statesmen, February 13, 2012
“Freedom is not a place to visit, or a thing to be achieved. Freedom is a commitment, a way of life that will endure only as long as men love it for themselves and their children, more than their weariness, or their fear, or vain comforts.” – Michael Case
“Perceive and believe. Don’t engage in denial. And stay calm. Don’t panic. If you’re going to die, you’re going to die. Suck it up. In a truly dire situation…, you have to let go of thoughts of your own death and simply do what needs to be done: Act deliberately and in the right direction.” – Lawrence Gonzales
“Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, …
“Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.” – Amos 3:7 (KJV)
“We may be hunted like animals, but we will not become animals. We have all chosen this – to live free, like human beings, for as long as we can. Every day of freedom is an act of faith; and if we die trying to live then at least we will die like human beings.” – Daniel Craig as Tuvia Bielski in the movie Defiance. (Screenplay by Clayton Frohman and Edward Zwick.) The movie was based on the book Defiance: The Bielski Partisans, by Nechama Tec
"You ought to consider the ‘ifs’ now and then. Thinking about ‘if’ sometimes prepares you for ‘when’." – Laura Kalpakian
“Prepping, to me, is much like a seat belt. I wear a seat belt every time I get behind the wheel. I do not expect to need it. I pray to God that I’ll never need it. I’d be ignorant to ignore the possibility that it may save my very life.” – Pat Riot
“Being prepared is sometimes inconvenient, but not being prepared is always inconvenient.” – Fred Choate
“…those who begin by worshiping power soon worship evil.” – C.S. Lewis
“Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye. And above all these things [put on] charity, which is the bond of perfectness. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.” – Colossians 3:12-15 (KJV)
“Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.” – Isaiah 1:16-17 (KJV)
“With Jesus, even in our darkest moment, the best remains. And the very best is yet to be.” – Corrie ten Boom
“In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity only one.” – Horatius Bonar
“If God sends us on stony paths, he provides strong shoes.” – Corrie ten Boom