A lot of the students at West Point considered Thomas Jackson an old fool because he was always talking about the Bible and pursuing peace.
Boy were they wrong. That mild mannered man was what a real warrior looks like. He knows the cost of war, and the benefit of faith. But once war has begun he calls for the black flag, and drives the heathen from his lands.
That “old fool” quickly transformed into General Stonewall Jackson, the right arm of General Robert E. Lee, the pride of Virginia.
232 years ago today, 16 humble Catholic Carmelite Nuns effectively put an end to the French Revolution’s Godless reign of terror in France.
How did they do it?
They died singing praises to the Lord and shattered the atheistic delusion that has overwhelmed the psyche of a nation
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
Henry David Thoreau
• July 12, 1817