“Oh no,” Grant smirked. “If I had got him I’d let him go again; he will do us more good commanding you fellows.”34 Grant and Buckner, both veterans who remembered Pillow from Mexico, shared a good laugh at this caustic remark. Grant liked to tell stories of how Pillow once dug a ditch on the wrong side of his breastworks or described himself as “cut down by grape shot” when a bullet grazed his foot.35 During”
― Grant
― Grant
“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”
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“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― Animal Farm
― Animal Farm
“A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.”
― The Kingdom of God in America
― The Kingdom of God in America
“Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself. It wants to gain, to capture by every means; it uses force. It desires to be irresistible, to rule.”
― Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
― Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
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