Sonja V

“And I may return in faded armor Full of patches bent and aged. And I may face the heat of battle, To free the damned and free the slaves. And I may know both pain and rejection, The betrayal of my friends. But the glory that awaits me, Will make it worth it in the end—in the end.”
― Charles F. Stanley, How to Handle Adversity: You Can Have Victory in Christ

“Eliakim, Eliakim the father of Azor,”
― Anonymous, Amplified Bible

“A German infantryman wrote in his diary, ‘Courage has nothing to do with it. The fear of death surpasses all other feelings and terrible compulsion alone drives the soldier forward.’22”
― James Wyllie, Hermann and Albert Goering: The Nazi and the Renegade

“What’s more, they had taught him to be friendly and helpful to others. Not because he owed it to them. Because he owed it to himself.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, A Well-Tempered Heart: Sequel to The Art of Hearing Heartbeats