"Being prepared is sometimes inconvenient, but not being prepared is always inconvenient." - Fred Choate

"…those who begin by worshiping power soon worship evil."  - C.S. Lewis

"Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye.
And above all these things [put on] charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful." - Colossians 3:12-15 (KJV)

"Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow." - Isaiah 1:16-17 (KJV)

"With Jesus, even in our darkest moment, the best remains. And the very best is yet to be." - Corrie ten Boom

"In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity only one." - Horatius Bonar

“If God sends us on stony paths, he provides strong shoes.” - Corrie ten Boom

"Kriget är icke en ström eller en sjö utan ett hav med allt ont." Loosely translated: "War is not a river, or a lake, but an ocean of all that is evil." - Gustavus Adolphus

"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."  - J.R.R. Tolkien

"Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off." - Proverbs 27:10 (KJV)