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“The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.”

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“The sacrifice ‘of’ self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the bedrock of the greatest nations. The sacrifice ‘for’ self is the most pathetic calling imaginable, and it is the quicksand within which nations perish.”

“Directing praise to oneself is to cash in on the ego in order to bankrupt the soul.”

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“Love makes it all ‘not about me.’ And after having spent the whole of my existence making it ‘about me,’ that’s an ‘about-face’ that’s about as difficult as it can get.”

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“The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves.”

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“Making it ‘all about me’ is making it all about no one else. And if I stop long enough to look around, I suddenly realize that a lot of ‘me’ without a lot ‘no one else’ is not a lot of anything.”

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“If we have a gift that we have kept to ourselves, we have perpetrated our own robbery.”

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“Too often we define love as something that we feel verses something that we give.”

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“Despite the fact that life owes us nothing, it gifts us everything. And if such selflessness were the hallmark of our lives, we would handily transform everyone’s life.”

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“I've diluted my idea of commitment with my desire for comfort. And once I've done that kind of diluting, the only commitment that I'm left with is a commitment to myself.”

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“All of us, minus the part of us we wish to keep for ourselves, adds up to none of us. And that’s typically what we give God.”

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“The service of self ends in the service of self. And that is a very small place to find myself living in.”

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“My life expended in the service of my life becomes something so terribly narrow that the value of my existence outside of my existence has no value. But if I dare to make myself a servant to others, I have made myself of value to everyone.”

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“To assume that I and I alone have all the answers is to eventually find myself entirely alone without any answers.”

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“The birthplace of anarchy is the cemetery of freedom.”

“Undoubtedly, the loneliest person on the planet is that individual who has successfully lived out their lives making their lives all about their lives. And while that might seem rather sad to most of us, at least they’ll feel that they’re in good company.”

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“Being ‘all about myself’ is the surest way that I can end up being ‘all by myself.”

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“If I am the main character in my story, the script will be palpably shallow and the character development will be anything but compelling.”

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“If I am unwilling to step up and look beyond the stunted reach of my own agendas, if I am unwilling embrace the truth even though it may run frustratingly contrary to my most innate desires, if I am unwilling to respect my fellowman even though our disagreements may be irritatingly vast...if I am so lifelessly entrenched in the bane of my own immaturity that I am ignorantly unwilling to do these things and rather choose to play the fool dressed in the garb of wisdom and other such assorted notions, 'common sense' will always be a phrase but never a standard.”

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“Truth is not something I create to serve my agenda. Rather, truth is something created to save me from my agenda.”

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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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“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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“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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“Too often our convictions are based on what is convenient. For if convictions are convenient, they are neither.”

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“Are the disjointed efforts of opinions, biases, cultural mandates, politically-correct notions, and all things vogue and trendy an effort to write ourselves sweeping permission to justify sweeping behaviors that will in time sweep us away?”

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“My conscience is the kill-joy of my greed. But my greed is the killer of my life. Any questions?”

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“Independence that has declared its ‘independence’ from the sure and certain compass of sound morals is nothing more than rogue greed having scantily dressed itself in the garb of independence while running off the cliff of anarchy.”

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“Patience compels me to adjust my stride to the cadence of life, not the pace of my greed.”

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“The only time that God will kneel in the face of our selfish choices is to lift us out of the consequences of those choices.”

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“If we view the world based on its impact on us, we will forever lose sight of how we might be able to impact it.”

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“Maybe what I need to be rescued from is the feeling that I don’t need to be rescued, for without a doubt this is the most difficult rescue of all.”

“In one way or another, every mission that I have ever set out on to rescue myself is yet another mission that I end up needing to be rescued from. Hence, there is God.”

“Maybe we should define what freedom is before we use it for what it’s not.”

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“The exercise of our freedoms as driven by the dictates of our greed will eventually undermine the very structures that gave us the ability to exercise those freedoms. And I for one do not wish to expend my life fighting to regain the freedoms that we never should have lost because we chose to be the fools that we never should have been.”

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“A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn’t open to anywhere good.”

“Arrogance is when my mouth is moving but my words are not.”

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“To lead for glory or gain is to neither lead nor follow. Rather, it is to destroy.”

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“One of the greatest feats that I can accomplish is to realize how great I am not.”

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“It’s not that we don’t have the answer. It’s that we don’t have the answer that we want. And until we get that, our stance is that we don’t have the answer.”

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“If the story of your life was all about you, at your death the person who would have found pleasure in reading it is in the same pine box that you are. And the ones who have no interest are the ones shoveling the dirt.”

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“Sometimes our greed gets unhinged to the point that we lose the hinges, we misplace the door, and we can’t remember which house we were in this time.”

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“We can deny the destructive nature of our choices. And we can deny the consequences of those choices even when they litter the landscape of our lives and our culture with the burning wreckage of our foolishness. But are we ignorant enough to die by the hand of the ignorance that we’ve perpetually fed because it serves our agenda, or do we wish to live by letting it starve so that it’s no longer feeding on us?”

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“God doesn’t change because He’s set in His ways. He doesn’t change because He is out to save us from the fact that we are set in ours.”

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“The fool says that consequences are a myth, so his indulgence knows no end. Yet, the greater fool is the one who eventually realizes that the consequences are not a myth at all. Rather, they choose to believe that they are a product of not having indulged enough.”

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“You can pick up a cat by its tail because you assume that the part of the cat that can do you damage is on the other end. But it’s amazing how fast the other end can find its way to this end.”

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“Mankind is averse to true wisdom because it will demand of us what we prefer not to give. Therefore we craft something that will give us everything that we want, and this we call wisdom.”

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“To win at all costs is to lose at any cost.”

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