On Understanding Trials in the Scope of God's Sovereignty

"The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you can apprehend the sense of them.”
Matthew Henry
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Some humor from WWI Hero Sergeant York

from Sergeant York and the Great War, by Tom Skeyhill (a study in English dialect as much as in WWI)

The pious Kentucky mountain boy in Paris, explaining how he got lost and got back to the hotel:

"So you see, I never takened home any girls in France, but one of them had to take me home, Ho! Ho!" pg195

And his experience with luxury in NYC:

"The were two beds in my room (at the Waldorf Astoria). Twin beds. That kinder tickled me. I didn't know which one to sleep in. So I tried them both." pg199

And on a serious note, considering and answering one of many "reasons" given for his safety and success in the battle:

"I ain't so foolish as to deny that I know a whole heap about guns. I do. I know, too, that I am a tol'able good shot. But I don't car how good a shot man is, hit ain't in the nature of thins for one man with an army rifle and a pistol to whip thirty-five machine guns that can each fire over six-hundred shots a minute; from a p'int blank range of between twenty and thiry yards." pg181

Spurgeon on Being "Fashioable"

"The great guide of the world is fashion and it’s god is respectability–two phantoms at which brave men laugh! How many of you look around on society to know what to do? You watch the general current and then float upon it! You study the popular breeze and shift your sails to suit it. True men do not so! You ask, “Is it fashionable? If it is fashionable, it must be done.” Fashion is the law of multitudes, but it is nothing more than the common consent of fools."

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Man's Inability in Numbers 20:10-12

"Not even Moses, the giver of the law, was able to keep the law."
- Elyse Fitzpatrick, Comforts from the Cross

Fatih and Reason according to Paul Tripp

"Faith is not unreasonable, but it will take you beyond your ability to reason."

-Paul David Tripp, "What To Do When Life Doesn't Make Sense"  FBCTC 2010

Robert E. Lee on why we need history

"The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope."