Jack Haefner

“generals rose early to do nothing all day, while diplomats rose late for the same purpose;”
― Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943

“We look up to her, as on a Star that guides us, shining through the dark clouds of human uncertainty. The annual Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception shines bright from within the background of the Advent liturgy. We contemplate Our Lady in the divine economy of salvation as the ‘Gate of heaven’ through which the Redeemer comes into the world.[398]”
― Francis Fernandez, In Conversation with God – Volume 7 Part 2: Special Feasts: October – December

“There is no room for the proud in that little group in Bethlehem.”
― Francis Fernandez, In Conversation with God – Volume 1 Part 1: Advent

“The ties we form through the Internet are not, in the end, the ties that bind. But they are the ties that preoccupy.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other