At times, it almost felt like I was destined to take the trip, like all the people I met had somehow been waiting for me
The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and 'presentism' is his original sin.
The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
Do you not think that God will protect us?” “No,” he said flatly. “My experience is that He rarely attends to the obvious.
There is only one religion - it is a way a man dies.
You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.
We are only allowed to live due to some colossal misunderstanding.
Furthermore, he had beautiful eyes.
While the Arab guerrillas were moving in, the Arab civilian population was moving out. —
This war will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongol massacres and the Crusades. —
...all necessary measures should be taken to encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale. —
If the Palestinian people really suffered a , it was largely of their own making — and that of their grand mufti.
The Zionists accepted the partition plan. The AHC and the Arab states rejected any proposal to share the land and vowed to drown the fledging Jewish state in rivers of blood.
He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man.
Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.
You gain power by pretending to be weak.
Power is meant to be shared with the goal of empowering others. Hoarded power weakens others and exalts oneself. Power, when grounded in biblical values, serves others by liberating them. It acknowledges that people bear the image of God and treats t...
Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.
I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list
Talking about a problem sometimes makes it worse.
As long as he was breathing, God's greatest task for him was not yet finished. His highest purpose in life was still unfulfilled. ... God still had plans for him.
