"No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it. The most deadly poison of our time is indifference.”
Maximilian Kolbe, Executed by the Nazi government, 14 August 1941
"Every century is like every other, and to those who live in it seems worse than all times before it. The Church is ever ailing, and lingers on in weakness. Religion seems ever expiring, schisms dominant, the light of Truth dim, its adherents scattered. The cause of Christ is ever in its last agony, as though it were but a question of time whether it fails finally this day or another. The Saints are ever all but failing from the earth, and Christ all but coming; and thus the Day of Judgment is literally ever at hand."
John Henry Newman, The Via Media, 1834
"Many people think of our times as being the last before the end of the world. The evidence of horror all around us makes this seem possible. But isn't that an idea of only minor importance? Doesn't every human being, no matter which era he lives in, always have to reckon with being accountable to God at any moment? Can I know whether I'll be alive tomorrow morning? A bomb could destroy all of us tonight. And then my guilt would not be one bit less than if I perished together with the earth and the stars.
And I could weep at how mean people are and how they betray their fellow creatures, perhaps for the sake of personal advantage. It is enough to make a person lose heart sometimes. I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it. I will cling to the rope God has thrown me in Christ, even when my numb hands can no longer feel it.”
Sophie Scholl, Executed by the Nazi government, 22 February 1943
Margaret Roper: Haven't you done as much as God can reasonably want?
Thomas More: Well, finally— it isn't a matter of reason. Finally, it's a matter of love.
Robert Bolt, A Man For All Seasons, 1954
God says to love our neighbors, as he loves us.
But we look down on our neighbors, and oppress and exploit them.
God loves us, and calls us by name.
But we turn away, and don't listen.
We want power, and land, and baubles to fill the emptiness of a selfish and lawless generation.
Stocks rallied for most of the day, but then turned down and went into the red for the close.
Gold gave up much of its early rally but managed to hold on to some of its gains.
Silver followed stocks lower.
The Dollar chopped sideways.
The VIX remains subdued.
Big volumes of physical gold continue to move in and out of Hong Kong.
Gold is moving from West to East.
Have a pleasant evening.
