"Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater."
Alvin Smith, George Washington Carver: Man of God, 1961
“We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in a world, in the real world, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”
Stephen Miller, CNN Interview, 6 January 2026
"Do you desire to be great? make yourselves little. There is a mysterious connexion between real advancement and self-abasement. If you minister to the humble and despised, if you feed the hungry, tend the sick, succour the distressed; if you bear with the froward, submit to insult, endure ingratitude, render good for evil, you are, as by a divine charm, getting power over the world and rising among the creatures. God has established this law. Thus He does His wonderful works.
His instruments are poor and despised; the world hardly knows their names, or not at all. They are busied about what the world thinks petty actions, and no one minds them. They are apparently set on no great works; nothing is seen to come of what they do: they seem to fail. Nay, even as regards religious objects which they themselves profess to desire, there is no natural and visible connexion between their doings and sufferings and these desirable ends; but there is an unseen connexion in the kingdom of God. They rise by falling.
Let this be the settled view of all who would promote Christ's cause upon earth. If we are true to ourselves, nothing can really thwart us. Our warfare is not with carnal weapons, but with heavenly. The world does not understand what our real power is, and where it lies. And until we put ourselves into its hands of our own act, it can do nothing against us. Till we leave off patience, meekness, purity, resignation, and peace, it can do nothing against that Truth which is our birthright, that Cause which is ours, as it has been the cause of all saints before us. But let all who would labour for God in a dark time beware of any thing which ruffles, excites, and in any way withdraws them from the love of God and Christ, and simple obedience to Him.
Such is the rule of our warfare We advance by yielding; we rise by falling; we conquer by suffering; we persuade by silence; we become rich by bountifulness ; we inherit the earth through meekness; we gain comfort through mourning; we earn glory by penitence and prayer. Heaven and earth shall sooner fall than this rule be reversed; it is the law of Christ's kingdom, and nothing can reverse it but sin."
John Henry Newman, The Weapons of Saints, 29 October 1837
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
G.K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News, December 31, 1910
The Dollar slid off the 99 handle today.
Gold, silver and Bitcoin rallied higher.
Stocks rose sharply for no apparent reason and VIX fell.
We could be in store for a major exchange of missiles and drones around the Straight of Hormuz.
Iran is threatening a major attack on Israel if the IDF proceeds further in Lebanon, as they have promised to do.
Non-Farm Payrolls report tomorrow.
Have a pleasant evening.
