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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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“The weak-minded must experience the consequence of their actions to understand the foolishness of the choice. However, for the wise it’s not about avoiding consequences. It’s about choosing the right ones.”

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“Ethics are the things that say, 'Don’t stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It’s okay because we’ve shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we’ve chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I’m having a really hard time getting back up.”

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“A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn’t help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions.”

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“Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.”

“The disciplined man refuses a life of lesser choices.”

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“It is my hope that I will live today in a way that every tomorrow will become a great yesterday.”

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“I can do far more than simply wish I were a better person. In reality, I am quite capable of making this wish come true by doing nothing more than rigorously making the kind of decisions that would actually make me the very thing I wish to be.”

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“It is the man or woman of wisdom who will recognize that to embrace the consequences of our choices, and to own the outcome of our behaviors is the single path to freedom, and that any other path will always, always, lead to enslavement.”

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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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“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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“To simply emote is not to express an opinion. Rather, it is an attempt to force a point of view that won’t stand on its own merits.”

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“If I craft my own ethics, they will serve my agendas rather than guide them. And that is something akin to racing a car down a mountain road without a steering wheel and somehow assuming that all is well.”

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“Freedom exercised without the tempering of wisdom and the guidance of ethics is freedom gone rogue. And freedom gone rogue is no longer freedom. Rather, it is the rather effective method by which we’ve now chosen to destroy ourselves.”

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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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“When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will ‘give way’ and it is I who will ‘fall.”

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“The greatest power of all is having ‘all power’ but choosing not to use it.”

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“Patience is where we choose to enjoy the view instead of run off the cliff.”

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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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“It is the power of temperance, the steadying hand of wisdom, and the warmth of love for all that shapes my words even in the midst of the most heightened of disagreements. For if I allow temperance, wisdom and the warmth of love to guide any engagement I may have (even though it might be one with my most hostile enemy), I will have set the stage for a place where seemingly unassailable walls can come down, hands can be extended in unexpected friendship, and the impossible is made impossibly possible.”

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“The problem with patience is that we are not patient enough to learn it.”

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“I can rush off a cliff or I can build a bridge across it. And if you look around, we seem to be awfully light on bridges these days because we’re incredibly limited on patience.”

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“The carnage of our lives can burn hot in the flames of our indiscretions, the greed that hung us on the very leash that we thought we had firmly secured around it, or the fool within us that thought ethics to be the hiding place of the visionless coward. And over time we have come to believe that the resultant carnage of these horribly errant ideologies carries a finality so irreversible that our lives have no hope of being anything other than the ash and smoke that we have recklessly turned them into. Yet, Easter is sufficiently formidable to raise ashes into lives of astounding beauty and turn smoke into the fragrance of hope eternally reborn.”

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“True power does not rest in our ability to destroy something, for the fool can do that with little effort and no thought. Nor does true power rest in our ability to restore something once it’s destroyed, for that simply involves taking what we’ve done and walking it backwards. Rather, true power rests in the ability to render destruction as the thing that never happens.”

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“God has gifted us with both the right and the privilege of accepting Him or rejecting Him. And the immensity of the distance that lays between the outcomes of those two choices is greater by far than any other choice that any human being will ever make.”

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“We reject that which would save us out of the misguided illusion that we can handily save ourselves. Yet, we plummet in the embrace of such an illusion only to deny the fall and justify the brutality of the impact. Staggering and blinded, we raise ourselves up from the carnage, lean on the crutches of weakly fabricated philosophies, and declare the illusion of self-serving savior once again. And until we relent and embrace the Savior born at Christmas, falls will be our lot, carnage our companion, and misery our destination.”

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“The pit is of my own making. The rescue is of God's love. And the deliverance is my acceptance of both.”

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“Some leaders believe that the caboose pulls the train.”

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“Independence is the freedom to choose that which we will depend upon.”

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“Don’t make today the yesterday that you’ll regret.”

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“Intelligence without wisdom is like a parachute without a ripcord. You might have everything that you need, but you have nothing that you can use.”

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“If I can live without that which I seek, I have errantly chosen to seek something that is not worth seeking.”

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“Most everything that I ‘need’ can be found in most everything that I threw away in my mad rush to get everything that I ‘wanted,’ for the eyes of greed are blind to the treasures of life.”

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“If you’re not brave enough to address the real issues, then there’s a good chance that you’re not brave enough to keep your mouth shut about the issues that are not.”

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“If you’re going to ‘run your mouth,’ at least don’t run it in circles.”

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“You are bigger than the choices that would lead you to believe that you are smaller.”

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“If the answer creates more questions, it’s nothing more than a ‘shot in the dark’ that missed.”

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“Ask the questions even if you don’t want the answers. For the answers that we don’t want are often the very things that keep us from doing what we shouldn’t be doing.”

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“I want to ‘think’ that I have all the answers. But if I ‘think’, I soon realize that what I thought to be answers were guesses. And if I ‘think’ yet again, I begin to realize that since God has all the answers He never hands me a guess.”

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“How can I claim to be the center of my universe when I can’t even conceptualize that which I claim to be the center of?”

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“The Bible is a book of wisdom. And unless we are wise enough to understand how wise we are not, the Bible will we read not.”

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