Peleliu Battle Quotes

#1. Something in me died at Peleliu. Perhaps it was the childish innocence that accepted as faith the claim that Man is basically good. Possibly I lost faith that politicians in high places, who do not have to endure war's savagery, will ever stop blundering and sending others to endure it.

Eugene B. Sledge

#2. The work of salvation, in its full sense, is (1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; (2) about the present, not simply the future; and (3) about what God does through us, not merely what God does in and for us.

N. T. Wright

#3. Every day you teach attitude.

Don Meyer

#4. Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills ... Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man

Robert Kennedy

#5. Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth.

Elie Wiesel

#6. I think of myself as someone with a kind of Tourette's. I cannot help saying the thing you're not supposed to say.

Francine Prose

#7. The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#8. Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

Pliny The Elder