Thought 1:
"Churchill was exhilarated. Six months later, after the first battle of Ypres, with tens of thousands of British soldiers in their graves, he would say to Violet Asquith: 'I think a curse should rest on me - because I am so happy. I know this war is smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment and yet - I cannot help it - I enjoy every second.'" - Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War, by Patrick Buchanan
Thought 2:
"People often ask physicians how we handle the emotional stress of dealing with ill children. What are our defense mechanisms? Do we practice a cool detachment? Do we shut off our emotions completely? Or do we go home at the end of the day and sob over a reheated dinner? ...The truth is that we are trained to do a job: recognize a problem, come up with a solution and execute that plan. Our ability to actually do something protects us from what you might expect would be a chronic depressive state. We feed off the satisfaction of being able to help and we know that things would be worse if we didn't or couldn't, do anything. For that reason, the experience of taking care of sick kids is much different from a hopeless walk through a pediatric ward as a visitor." - Katrina Firlik, Another Day in the Frontal Lobe - A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
Thought 3:
"A young engineer was being examined, and this question was put to him: 'suppose you have a steam pump, constructed for a ship, under your supervision, and you know that everything is in perfect order, yet, when you throw out the hose, it will not draw; what should you think?' 'I should think, sir, that there must be a defect somewhere.' 'But such a conclusion is not admissible; for the supposition is that everything is perfect, and yet the pump will not work.' 'Then, sir,' replied the student, 'I should look over the side of the ship to see if the river had run dry.' Even so it would appear that if true prayer is not answered the nature of God must have changed.” - Spurgeon's Sermon Notes
