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“Raging like a lion or wild boar and slaughtering many enemies may be worthy of praise and honor in the world of Homer’s characters, but similes claiming that the warriors are like such beasts invite the audience to consider whether it really is optimal behavior for a human being. Is it really something to brag about?”
― Emily Katz Anhalt, Enraged: Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths

“There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!”
― Abraham Kuyper

“The battle,” Rommel famously observed, “is fought and decided by the quartermasters before the shooting begins.”
― Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943

“It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to His Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community