“The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.” MenHumansBookStatesMomentsHelpingLawReadingGamesHuman BeingsRoomsFireWifeCoupleProtectHusbandWasteOrdinaryEconomicsGardenIncreaseArmyPoliceCourtThis LifeEtcWasting TimeParliamentDiggingHusband And WifePubsChattingDarts Book:Mere Christianity Source: Mere Christianity
“One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans.” HumansMeanChurchSpaceTerribleEternityArmySpreadInvisibleAll TimeAlliesRootedTime And SpaceUneasyBannerScrewtape Letters Book:Paved with Good Intentions: A Demon’s Road Map to Your Soul Source: Paved with Good Intentions: A Demon’s Road Map to Your Soul
“One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.” HumansStatesCertainHuman BeingsFailingGreatnessBuildingDisciplineOvercomingArmyEmpiresSuperiorityHierarchyEmpire State BuildingEmpire State Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind, and it is really difficult for human intelligence to guess at a divine intelligence. What we usually end up with by this sort of reasoning is to make God the color-sergeant of our army and to make Him as chauvinistic as ourselves.” ThinkingMindHumansEndsReligionDifficultImagineDivineColorArmyReasoningHuman IntelligenceSergeants Book:The Importance of Living Source: The Importance of Living
“In circumstances as dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians, to reflect that whilst every prudent measure should be taken to ward off the impending judgments, ...at the same time all confidence must be withheld from the means we use; and reposed only on that God rules in the armies of Heaven, and without His whole blessing, the best human counsels are but foolishness.” MenShouldHumansMeanWholeUseChristianHeavenDarkLibertyTakenCircumstancesBlessingJudgmentArmyFoolishnessOur Founding FathersPrudentUs Founding Fathers Author:John Hancock
“We ran up to them and they gave us hugs, cookies and chocolate. Being so alone, a hug meant more than anybody could imagine because that replaced the human warmth that we were starving for. We were not only starved for food, but we were starved for human kindness. And the Soviet Army did provide some of that.” HumansKindnessImagineArmyRanChocolateSovietHugReplacedCookiesStarvingHuman KindnessHug Me Author:Eva Mozes Kor