Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.
Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.

