Mitt Romney to Harvard Business School graduates: "There's more to a country than its economy. To be a great nation, it must also be a good nation. The world needs good men. It needs good women. Good leaders. Good parents raising good children. There is no national success that could compensate for failure to be a good and noble people."
This is one of the greatest lines by Tolkien. Filled with profound wisdom and reality:
“Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
When a politician claims that God is on their side, they are just using God to try to get you on their side.
It is simply taking God’s name in vain for the sake of their own pursuit of power.
Turning any politician into some messiah like figure for Christianity is blasphemous.
I doubt I will ever love a Liverpool manager more than I love Jurgen Klopp.
Another manager might even win more, in fact I hope they do as I want more trophies, but for the person Jurgen is, the human he is, the joy he brought, his attitude and values in life.
He is unique.
“He sees you when you’re sleeping
He knows when you’re awake
He knows if you’ve been bad or good and-he’s-cheering-you-on-to-run-your-race-with-perseverance-because-he’s-part-of-the-great-cloud-of-witnesses…”
You just popped the new Blink-182 CD in your mom’s car as she takes you to get the new Mario and Spider-Man games. You grab a pizza on the way home and your friends are coming to sleep over. Life is good. The year is 2023 and you are 34 years old.