“Who is that man?” asked Bossuet.

“A man,” replied Combeferre, “who saves others.”

Marius added in a grave voice: “I know him.”

This assurance was enough for everyone. Enjolras turned toward Jean Valjean.

"Citizen, welcome.”

And he added: “You know we are going to die.”

Jean Valjean, without answering, helped the insurgent he had saved get into his uniform.

https://medium.com/muse-2-muse/les-miserables-through-the-timeless-immortal-mind-of-victor-hugo-df571b8e440d

#classics #reading #mediumwriters

As her prestige mounted its maintenance became more trying. She became more sensitive to criticism and would go to any lengths to avoid it.

The women adored her. Men were awestruck before her. She was becoming something of a phenomenon. But she alone knew her internal struggles. She knew she was not better than anyone else....

A Reread of 3 Great African Classics

https://bit.ly/40nwFmT

#AfricanWritersSeries #reading #BookInsights

You and I don’t have to choose a “side” in genocide. Heck, even God doesn’t choose sides. The Bible says He is no respector of persons.

https://survivingtomorrow.org/jews-vs-muslims-a-christian-perspective-67b7e5f103ed

It is a terrible thing to be happy! How we content ourselves with it! How easily we find it to be the be-all and end-all! How easily, having attained that false aim of life, happiness, we forget the real aim, duty!

©Victor Hugo ~ Les Miserables

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#bookinsights #life #love #duty #selfsacrifice #mediumwriters #nigeria

Because, you only live once…

https://is.gd/Joy42day
#life #joy #beauty #childten #nigeria

Jump off the “Doom Scrolling” train. Doom scrolling is the habit of endlessly consuming negative news via social media or the internet. It is a downward-spiralling self-defeating habit. Many of those caught in this deadly addiction are unaware of it. Compulsively, they want to be in the know, even though such negative news leave them hassled, depressed and worn-out.

https://akinlade.medium.com/065ce6bd323d?source=friends_link&sk=bac895f1ee16e55838ce11f2d26c4907

#selfdiscipline #timemanagement #productivity #focus

In every way it has come to this, that what one now calls Christianity is precisely what Christ came to abolish. This has happened especially in Protestantism.

~ Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855)

https://medium.com/muse-2-muse/the-great-derailing-of-the-nigerian-church-978b50ef46f3

#nigeria #christianity

But hatred is best combined with Fear. Cowardice, alone of all the vices, is purely painful - horrible to anticipate, horrible to feel, horrible to remember;

Hatred has its pleasures. It is therefore often the compensation by which a frightened man reimburses himself for the miseries of Fear. The more he fears, the more he will hate. And Hatred is also a great anodyne for shame.

©C. S. Lewis ~ The Screwtape Letters https://is.gd/CSL24lsns

#christianity #ChristianLiving

"There is certainly much anarchy to be managed in Nigeria, but just doing that — if it can be done — is not enough. The tragedy of the future is that Nigerians refuse to learn from their own past. “We are far more anxious to dismiss what happened than anything else. Nobody wants to get to the bottom of anything."
~ ©Karl Maier, This House Has Fallen

https://is.gd/9nJAaT63

#nigeria #NigeriaAt63

No stab ever cut deeper than, 
The silence of our friends, &
"Looking the other way" of
Those we call brethren. 

But, O my heart.  
Patience and courage 
For just one more day. 
All shall be well. 
And you'll be fine.

#trust #friendship #relationships #courage #hope #tomorrow