“Since my last report he has reached rock bottom, and has started to dig”
Another apparently authentic British military Officer Fitness Reports quoted by Steve Madely in Ottawa Sun February 10, 1999
“I suppose everyone knows this fear of getting ‘drawn in’, the moment at which a man realizes that what had seemed mere speculations are on the point of landing him in the Communist Party or the Christian Church – the sense that a door has just slammed and left him on the inside.”
C.S. Lewis Perelandra
“If one’s view of human nature is very constrained, then the alternative to loyalty is not impartiality but pure selfishness.”
Thomas Sowell A Conflict of Visions
“’I suppose there are two views about everything,’ said Mark. ‘Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.’”
Mark Studdock and William “Bill the Blizzard” Hingest in C.S. Lewis That Hideous Strength
“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”
Winston Churchill, quoted on https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/721301-fear-is-a-reaction-courage-is-a-decision
“Diseases enter by the mouth, misfortune issues from it.”
Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts
“If God’s ordinances are sure and certain, then God must be dependable. We can rely on him. God’s laws are unchanging. God is not evolving; hence his laws are not evolving. Perfection cannot be improved upon .... There are no mood swings with God. He is not fickle. He does not change with the times. The changing god, the evolving god who suddenly gets with it, is no god at all, since he is a god fashioned at our own impulse, made to suit and bless our ever-changing whims.”
David Kitz Psalms Alive!
“cast into the furnace of contempt.”
Robert B. Heilman “Freedom from Speech” in Jack E. Conner & Marcelline Krafchick, eds., Speaking of Rhetoric