“Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

>Woman grows up in satanic family
>Enslaved and lost doing tasks for satan
>Stunned when all her black magic goes *poof* when up against sincere Christians
>Realizes she’d been lied to and deceived by satan (and she's actually on the losing team), and there’s a power much greater than him (anher and is where the only hope resides in this realm)
>Converts to Christianity and is saved

No matter how lost in the darkness you are, Christ is there waiting to take your hand — but you must be sincere in accepting His hand!

"The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think."

— Albert Einstein

“The best of all medicines are resting and fasting.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Old Ben could have done a bit more fasting… lol

But he’s spot on!

"One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history."

— Albert Schweitzer

"When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame."

— Augustine

"We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us."

Winston Churchill

(Stop scrolling and really look at this painting! Amazing)

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

Leo Tolstoy

(hint: it's a sincere devotion to God)

Your monthly reminder:

“When I was a Revolutionary Marxist, we were all in favour of as much immigration as possible. It wasn’t because we liked immigrants, but because we didn’t like Britain.”

— Peter Hitchens

"When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along."

— Carl Sandburg

Lol

"I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace."

— Thomas Paine

"Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is."

— Thomas Carlyle

"It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse."

— Owen Feltham

Evil detests beauty because beauty is proof of a transcendental order, of objective Goodness and Truth.

To attack beauty is to wage war against the possibility of transcendence.

Beauty is a great affront to nihilism. It testifies to that which is greater than the individual, utiful thing is to acknowledge that you are answerable to standards higher than your own. Beauty is often called a great evangelist for this reason.

This is why they outright destroy beauty or try to subvert your perception of it by promoting ugliness or triviality. Beauty is neither neutral nor trivial — your ability to discern the beautiful from the ugly is intimately connected to your capacity to recognize the divine.

Dietrich von Hildebrand once declared that "beauty is the archenemy of mediocrity." Why?

Beauty elevates a person toward truth, goodness, and the divine. The antitheses to beauty drag the soul down into nihilism and worship of the self.

"Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home."

— Henry Drummond

"When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less."

— C.S. Lewis

"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"I hold to faith in the divine love — which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ — as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe