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When we realize finally that we aren’t God’s given children, we’ll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

Bill Mauldin

My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: “The hell this ain’t the most important hole in the world . I’m in it.
BILL MAULDIN

Italian Reading Years
Rom. 8:29 tells us what our purpose is – to conform to the image of Jesus Christ, and that singularly helps me keep a focus. That’s really what I’m called to do, and I should be gradually growing and changing. He should be increasing, and I should be decreasing.
BILL MAULDIN

Focus Jesus Purpose
All coaching is, is taking a player where he can’t take himself.
BILL MAULDIN

Coaching Player Teamwork
When you’re born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God’s terms.
BILL MAULDIN

Ability Born Again DNA
When we realize finally that we aren’t God’s given children, we’ll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
BILL MAULDIN

Children Hurt Laughing
If you want to take the meaning of the word integrity and reduce it to its simplest terms, you’d conclude that a man of integrity is a promise keeper. When he gives you his word. You can take it to the bank. His word is good.
BILL MAULDIN

Honesty Integrity Men
Big Dreams Ccreate the Magic that Stir Men’s Souls to Greatness…
BILL MAULDIN

Dream Greatness Men
But someone once described the contrast between a good life and a godly life as the difference between the top of the ocean and the bottom.
BILL MAULDIN

Beautiful Good Life Ocean
What you are about to hear is God’s word to the men of this nation. We are going to war as of tonight. We have divine power – that is our weapon. We will not compromise. Wherever truth is at risk, in the schools or legislature, we are going to contend for it. We will win.
BILL MAULDIN

School War Winning
We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.
BILL MAULDIN

Building Team Team Building
A soldier’s life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I’ve been able to follow my kid’s progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him very well.
BILL MAULDIN

Kids Progress Soldier
Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.
BILL MAULDIN

Civilization Made Status
I’ve never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!
BILL MAULDIN

Packages Prize Want Wanted
I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.
BILL MAULDIN

Born might Trouble Maker
Oh, sure, the stupid bastard was crazy. He was insane. He thought he was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn’t like that attitude, but I certainly respected his theories and the techniques he used to get his men out of their foxholes.
BILL MAULDIN

Living Peasants Respected Sure
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
BILL MAULDIN

Funny Motivation Science

When we realize finally that we aren’t God’s given children, we’ll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

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