“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.