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 MAULDINWhen you’re born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God’s terms.
More Bill Mauldin Quotes
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We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.
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If you’re a leader, you don’t push wet spaghetti, you pull it.
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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.
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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.
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I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.
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True worship is not just an emotional experience. It reaches to the very depths of our souls and touches every aspect of our being
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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.
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When you’re born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God’s terms.
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All coaching is, is taking a player where he can’t take himself.
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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.
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Peace’ is when nobody’s shooting. A ‘just peace’ is when our side gets what it wants.
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I’ve never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!
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I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
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If you’re a leader, you don’t push wet spaghetti, you pull it. The U.S. Army still has to learn that. The British understand it. Patton understood it. I always admired Patton.
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I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man’s conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.
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