La Guerra

If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.
-- Edward Gibbon 


The following quote is from an article in the NYT published Oct 22, 2010 and titled: "A Grim Portrait of Civilian Deaths in Iraq"
"Civilians have borne the brunt of modern warfare, with 10 civilians dying for every soldier in wars fought since the mid-20th century, compared with 9 soldiers killed for every civilian in World War I, according to a 2001 study by the International Committee of the Red Cross."

My Thoughts Exactly...

"We’ll do more to defeat the enemy by not overreacting to the inevitable act of terrorism.”
-Michael Leiter, Director of National Counter Terrorism Center

Jim Elliot

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose."

- Jim Elliot (killed while evangelizing to the Waodani people in Ecuador)

Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy - Joseph Hart

Come, ye sinners, poor and needy,
Weak and wounded, sick and sore;
Jesus ready stands to save you,
Full of pity, love and pow’r.
...
Come, ye weary, heavy-laden,
Lost and ruined by the fall;
If you tarry till you’re better,
You will never come at all.
...
Let not conscience make you linger,
Not of fitness fondly dream;
All the fitness He requireth
Is to feel your need of Him.

Matthew 11:28-30

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower