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“To lead is to put myself below another so that I can lift up another. And true leadership means that I will keep them in that position and me in mine.”

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“I rather quickly discovered that to find the ‘easy way’ all I have to do is take the ‘right way’ and prune it down to the point that it doesn’t demand anything of me. But despite its rather dubious appearance of ease, what it ends up demanding of me is my integrity. And there’s nothing ‘easy’ about giving that up.”

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“The paths in front of me are so numerous that it’s difficult to choose the right one. Yet I can rather quickly solve the problem by realizing that it’s not the paths in front of me. Rather, it’s the path above me.”

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“It has been said that my convictions served a generation that lived out its days in the backwaters of an ignorance fed comatose by intellectual stupor. And although I find it painful to say, I would contend that this is in fact an apt description of today’s generation.”

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“Are my efforts driven by the need to win at all cost, or am I inspired by the desire to hold onto my integrity despite the cost? For I would be wise to realize that exercising the former will cost me both the former and the latter.”

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“The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs.”

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“Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence.”

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“The greatest men stand on their values and pray on their knees.”

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“If we dare examine our decisions, we will see our values woven in and through every single one of them. Therefore, it would do us well to take an occasional peek to insure that our values remain at their peak.”

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“All along, I was less concerned about walking a path of integrity and more caught up in a compass calibrated by greed. And with a compass such as this, how is it that I’m having a hard time understanding why I am where I am?”

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“I will either adamantly prioritize my agendas at the expense of the truth, or I will consistently bring my agendas into unrelenting obedience to the truth. And if for some reason you’re trying to determine who I truly am, the choice I make will tell you.”

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“Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid the compromise of comfort.”

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“Responding to the 'great good' within us causes us to be 'great people.”

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“Time is the same regardless of how much you pay for the watch.”

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“To be a light on a hill we must be a people on our knees.”

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“Are we brave enough to realize that we are entirely unable to achieve and subsequently sustain that for which we passionately dream? And are we sufficiently humble to acknowledge those limitations so that God might have space to expand our dreams leagues beyond the scope of our imagination while concurrently sustaining them in the expanding? For these things are the essential hallmarks of the great nation which we persistently and vigorously aspire to be.”

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“To craft my own morals is to build a rudderless ship in a sea of rocky shoals buffeted by a contrary wind.”

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“Woke’ is a state of deep sleep filled with dreams that we are awake.”

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“Anytime that man creates a belief system that is designed to elevate something to a position higher than himself his natural tendency is to assume occupancy of that position under the guise of that which was originally intended to be in that position. And if religion has any chance of keeping us from assuming occupancy of a position that we have no business occupying, our faith must be aggressively cultivated in a manner that nothing else is. Otherwise, we will be the gods of our own demise with the culture that we were sent to save following right behind us.”

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“When we extend our authorship to the writing of morals and the crafting of truth, we have in fact authored our own ending. And be aware that that chapter will be unexpectedly short, frighteningly dark, it will be written by your choices before you ever have the chance to pick up the pen, and the ink will be indelible.”

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“Attempting to talk ourselves ‘out’ of the things that we’ve errantly talked ourselves ‘into’ is where our morals showed up late to a party that our greed never left.”

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“Morals cannot negotiate with the tenets propagated by a deteriorating culture. Be assured that making the choice to engage in any such ‘supposed’ negotiations will kill the very morals that we’ve spent our lives claiming to defend.”

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“The foundational principles and timeless values that hold the entirety of this existence in balance are massive in size and complex beyond comprehension. Therefore, to live with the illusion that we can trade them out in favor of self-serving facsimiles is to run a fool’s errand in the destruction of a deteriorating culture.”

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“There are a set of foundational principles upon which the entirety of this existence was constructed. And that is a radically different view than believing that such principles were built ‘into’ our existence and therefore can be built ‘out.”

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“At the very point that we compromise our morals, we have in that instant killed them. And therefore, we become the assassin of the very morals that we claimed to defend.”

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“You want to kill your morals? Believe that they can be compromised and then act on that belief. The minute that you do, you will have achieved your goal.”

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“To constantly edit our ethics in order to keep pace with our preferences is to edit ethics that don’t exist in order to accommodate preferences that will never be satisfied.”

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“Godly ethics have boundaries that are impervious to the installation of gates regardless of which direction they might swing.”

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“To view freedom as that which grants us unlimited permission to create our own ethics is to utilize freedom as the most effective tool in the task of destroying our freedom.”

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“To be a person of principle is to accept the reality that their stance will never cease to draw the fire of those whose principle enemies are principles.”

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“I incessantly excuse myself and attempt to side-step the shame that I am due by embracing the ever-sinking standards I am perpetually fashioning. These diminishing compromises make me look the hero while I am wholly the villain.”

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“Rare are the principles that drive us to stand even when we realize that we will likely perish in the standing. And rarer still is the person who will surrender everything to protect such principles. Yet, these very characteristics are the unbending elements that raised this nation up from untamed wilderness and turmoil, and let us all be warned that without them we will rapidly return this nation to untamed wilderness and turmoil.”

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“Principle is immovable. Preference never stops moving.”

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“We are all too easily bribed by words written to appeal to our mortal appetites, and we find ourselves soured by those that change our hearts.”

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“Don't be so ignorant as to think that what we're exercising is freedom if we've bled it of morals, purged it of wisdom, declared it to be our right, and bent it to serve our agendas. This is not the exercise of freedom. Rather, this is the birth of anarchy.”

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“We are somehow led to believe that the justification of what we’re ‘sowing’ has the power to change the nature of what we’re sowing. Subsequently, we find ourselves shocked that the justifications didn’t change the nature of what we ‘reaped.”

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“The times that I have been most vehemently criticized were those times when I had worked to keep people from walking off a cliff that they could not see because they believed that I held a prejudice I did not have.”

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“Despite the insistence of our denial, immoral decisions will always leave us stalking ourselves. And if we are sufficiently foolish to make enough of those kinds of decisions, it will take very little time for the hunt to be successful.”

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“The fact that I can get away with something is the very reason why I shouldn’t do it.”

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“I would tell you that the abuse of words as a means of pressing an agenda is inexcusable. But the abuse of the people to whom those words are directed is reprehensible. Yet, to refuse to allow a set of ethics to guide the choice of your agenda as well as the selection of your words to articulate it is an offense that far eclipses the former.”

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“The squirrel had stretched himself out on a branch to soak up the sun in order to ward off the cold. And if we find ourselves always cold, it may be that we’re on the wrong branch under the wrong sun.”

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“The majority of our ‘lines in the sand’ should be those that we don’t cross.”

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“If we throw ethics to the wind, we will find ourselves on a journey where we’re always walking into the wind.”

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“Choosing to live a life of ethics and integrity is about igniting the fullness of our humanity instead of feeding slop to the darker side of our greed.”

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“The great things are never outdated by time or technological advances. Rather, they are the things that time and technology cannot move forward without.”

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“Bad seeds result in bad fruit. However, in an increasingly reprobate culture, we refuse to correlate the fact that the fruit is bad with the seeds that it grew from. So we either need to shut up and get used to bad fruit, or we need to acknowledge the abundance of bad seed.”

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“If I’ve granted myself a wide margin of error, I’m probably going to have a slim chance of success.”

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“Ethics and morals are not designed to keep us from walking off the cliff. Rather, they’re designed to keep us from creating the cliffs that we walk off of.”

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“All the forces of reason combined are unable to rescue the thoughtless person who is so enamored with their agenda that they themselves are perishing at the hands of that very agenda. And in order to insure that the principled nature of this nation is not doomed to perish alongside them, we must make certain that we are not that person.”

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“Change. It's needed, but maybe not in the way that we think it's needed. It seems that we need to be thoughtful about the values that we've embraced because of the ethics that we've discarded. We need to challenge the apathy that we've fallen into because of the convictions that we've fallen out of. Make no mistake about it, the collapse of the world around us began with the darkening of the souls within us. Therefore, it's not about changing a nation that's in turmoil out there. It's about changing a soul that's gone dark in here.”

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