It's been awhile, so here's one for you:

"American law enforcement, and perhaps more importantly the American public, the legal system, and the news media, have got to get it through their heads that such situations [such as the Beslan school seige or the Nord-Ost theater incident] are not pedestrian level criminal episodes committed by the socially ( Read more... )

"I know very well how foolish the message of the cross sounds to those who are on the road to destruction. But we who are being saved recognize this message as the very power of God."
Paul the apostle
1 Corinthians 1:18

From Abu Bakar Bashir, leader of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiyah:

When asked "What would you tell the families of the 202 people murdered in the October 2002 Bali nightclub explosion?"

The terrorist answered "My message to the families is, convert to Islam."

"It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again; who knows the great ( Read more... )

Dear God, where so we get such men?
What loving God has provided,
that each generation, afresh,
there should arise new giants in the land.
Were we to go but a single generation
without such men, we should surely
be both damned and doomed.
-Anonymous military officer
as quoted by
Lt. Dave Grossman, On Combat

"The truth is, any government that thinks war is somehow fair and subject to rules like a baseball game probably should not get into one. Because nothing's fair in war, and occasionally the wrong people do get killed. It's been happening for about a million years...

In the global war on terror, we have rules, and our opponents use them against us. ( Read more... )

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions"
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Supposedly we are a Christian society, or at least one founded by Christians. According to our self-manufactured mythos, we revere Jesus and Mother Theresa and Saint Francis of Assisi. But I think the truth is otherwise. When we feel collectively threatened, or when we are collectively injured, we want the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday on the job ( Read more... )

From "The Tin Roof Blowdown" by James Lee Burke:

"The years have not brought me much in the way of wisdom. But I have learned that the father of a young woman has to remember only two lessons in caring for his daughter: He must be by her side unreservedly when she needs him, and he must disengage when she doesn't."

Damned sage advice if you ask me.

"It is better to live alone in the desert than with a crabby, complaining wife"
Proverbs 21:19