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 MAULDINPeace’ is when nobody’s shooting. A ‘just peace’ is when our side gets what it wants.
More Bill Mauldin Quotes
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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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I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.
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We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.
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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.
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Big Dreams Ccreate the Magic that Stir Men’s Souls to Greatness…
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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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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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If you’re a leader, you don’t push wet spaghetti, you pull it.
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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.
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You have to convince your players that the only reason a play failed was that they didn’t execute properly.
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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.
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Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.
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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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