“For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite/ The man that mocks at it and sets it light.”
John of Gaunt in Shakespeare Richard II I.iii
“All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know by what you do; that’s what I called ‘guess what was at the other side of the hill’.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]
In my latest Epoch Times column I express the agony involved in listening to our politicians babble inane falsehoods about Canadian security policy.
“God deliver me from my friends! I’ll take care of my enemies myself.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]
“If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]
“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
Marcus Aurelius, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM “ in Epoch Times email teaser Dec. 17, 2022 without further attribution.
“Every Whit Sunday, Christians are reminded that the day of Pentecost is a historical fact – just as much as Christ’s birth, his miracles, his death on the cross, and literal physical resurrection, and his ascension. This needs to be emphasized more than ever today – our gospel and our salvation is not a mere teaching or a philosophy, but primarily a series of acts, with meaning and purpose. We should never lose sight of the historicity of what we are considering here. So what we read in Acts 2 is something that literally happened in the way that is described. Luke was primarily an historian and his concern was to give to Theophilus, to whom he had already written his gospel, a further account of the continuing action and activity of the Lord Jesus Christ; and so he is dealing here with something that belongs solidly and purely to the realm of history. What happened in Acts 2, as the records makes so plain and clear, was that the early church was baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
Martyn Lloyd-Jones Joy Unspeakable: Power & Renewal in the Holy Spirit
In my latest Loonie Politics column I note the irony of people who spent decades destigmatizing everything and saying we should all do whatever we feel like now complaining that nowadays we all just do whatever we feel like.