My new hero

Hannah, the mother of Samuel: 

“Those who were hungry have ceased to hunger.” (1 Samuel 2:5)

 Mary, the Mother of Jesus: “He has filled the hungry with good things.” (Luke 1:53)

There is nothing new under the sun: “Junk mail is one of the many media through which modern Americans are inundated with news—much of it bad. Television, newspapers and newsletters, and radio talk shows bombard us with information—much of it depressing. We have to absorb the bad news of the underclass, unrest in the Persian Gulf, the drug trade, abortion, militant homosexual advocacy, and the general decay of Christian standards.” Peter Leithart writing in 1993

“even if Christians were removed from every earthly throne, even if they were deprived of every place of worldly influence and power, even if deprived of all their property and wealth—none of this would diminish in the smallest measure the church’s reign over all things. Compared with the heavenly dominion of the church, earthly dominion is paltry and impoverished, for it matters little that a man gain the whole world if in the process he loses his own soul.” Peter leithart

"Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate" (Chesterton)

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts. (Malachi 3:1)