“[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble; crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.” GoalPresidentPartyLeaderDarknessTroubleDemocraticDoomedCatastropheDemocratic PartySquids Author:Clare Boothe Luce
“Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?” FacesDarknessTroubleDare Author:Betty MacDonald
“Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil, distress, trouble, fatigue--an exertion both painful and compulsory. Labor was our animal condition, struggling to survive in dirt and darkness.” HumanityFallAnimalDarknessStruggleGraceTroubleSacrificeConditionsLaborPainfulPurityDirtDistressToilHumiliationFatigueEnablingExertionCompulsoryStruggling To SurviveFalls From Grace Author:Shoshana Zuboff
“Not grace to bar what is not bliss, Nor flight from all distress, but this: The grace that orders our trouble and pain, And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain.” PainOrderDarknessGraceTroubleBarsFlightBlissDistress Author:John Piper
“Heroes do not dwell in a time of peace; heroes are hardened in a kiln against the sorrows. Their troubles sharpen the blade and make it gleaming. The glint becomes a brightness that is raised high on a hill, allowing women and men to see beyond themselves. For light swallows darkness. Truth buries death. Heroes are not born. They are filled by Music.” MenLightBornDarknessTroubleHeroSorrowMen And WomenFilledRaisedHillsAllowingBladesBrightnessHardened Author:David Paul