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God has never remained, like a part-time repairman, waiting on our phone call when something needs fixing. When he invades our lives, he kick-starts a long process of deconstruction and reconstruction.

C. S. Lewis pictured it this way: “Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what he is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently he starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that he is building quite a different house from the one you thought of—throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”

Chad Bird, Upside-Down Spirituality: The 9 Essential Failures of a Faithful Life

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

― Robert A. Heinlein

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

― Robert A. Heinlein

The husband is the head of the wife (Ephesians 5:23), the woman being made for the man and not the man for the woman (1 Corinthians 9:8); therefore, the woman is not to usurp authority over the man (1 Timothy 2:12), but to be obedient (Titus 2:5; 1 Peter 3:6), submitting herself (Colossians 3:18) with reverence (Ephesians 5:33) and in subjection to her husband (1 Peter 3:5). Meanwhile, the husband is to love his wife as his own body (Ephesians 5:28), even as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself for her (Ephesians 5:25), and he is especially to honor his wife because of her weakness and dependence (1 Peter 3:7).

John Fulton

It is not a question that men will rule, but which type of men will rule.

“As the storm raged around us, I walked up and down my sector. The men had fixed bayonets. They stood stony and motionless, rifle in hand, on the front edge of the dip, gazing into the field. Now and then, by the light of a flare, I saw steel helmet by steel helmet, blade by glinting blade, and I was overcome by a feeling of invulnerability. We might be crushed, but surely we could not be conquered.”

-Ernst Junger, Storm of Steel

We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man.

Oswald Spengler, Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life