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“The only, only formulation of a reality, the only understanding of the world, the only world view by which you can live rationally is the Christian world view. All others fail.” - Chuck Colson

“I wish I had thought about that question [which is more important, loyalty or integrity?] when I was in the White House because I obeyed the President of the United States. He was the Commander in Chief. Sometimes I argued with him, sometimes I disagreed with him, but eventually if I was going to stay there as his assistant, I did what he said. I wish I had thought about that question because to be loyal to something that is not the truth is a great disservice. So, integrity has to precede loyalty.” - Chuck Colson

“I was reading my Bible one day in the prison dormitory…I came upon Hebrews 2, that Christ became lower than the angels for a period of time so that He would not be ashamed to call us His brothers. I looked around that prison, the drug dealers and murders and thieves. I realized, ‘Wait a minute. I’m not ashamed to call these men my brothers.’ That changes your life when you see the world through God’s eyes instead of your own.” - Chuck Colson

“I just think the meanest thing a mother can do to her son is to put him in a position where he has to scold his mother, where he has to tell her to butt out or back off, and I choose to do that on my own.” - Annie Chapman

“When you first learn to dance, sometimes you spend a lot of time looking at your own feet, you step on toes unintentionally, it doesn’t look very pretty, you know, it’s kind of awkward. But when you learn to dance, at least in the literal realm of that, you get to choose your own partner. But in the mother-in-law dance, someone else chooses the partner.” - Annie Chapman

“A mother is that entity in a family that brings life, pleasure, transportation, commerce. She is an incredible asset to her family, until she overflows her banks. Until she gets out of her realm. As a child grows to maturity, she has got to back off and stay within her boundaries, regardless of how much she has invested in him, she has got to back away, and when he takes a wife, when he says, ‘I do,’ then I’m done. Does it mean I don’t love him anymore? Well, of course I love him, and my love demands me to back away because I don’t want him to have to choose.” - Annie Chapman

“When I watch my children struggle, and I watch them go through difficult times, as a mother, I keep wanting to peal the shell back and break it off and write that check and give that opinion and make that call, and yet, I realize now if I do that, I am making my children weak. As a good mother, I have to stand back and watch them free themselves from that eggshell.” - Annie Chapman

“I came across this quotation from G.K. Chesterton that I love….It goes like this, ‘The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank,’ and that’s the condition I found myself in. I wasn’t sure about God, I had no confidence that there was a God, but I did feel a sense of gratitude. I felt an awakening, a resurrection in my own soul, and I wanted to find someone to thank, and that really began the journey back.” - Philip Yancey

“…When I realized that my legacy, my only legacy is my children and, sure, I may be able to start some programs or ministries or whatever, but my bloodline, my love and my life are my children, and now my grandchildren. So, whatever it takes to invest in my children, it is by far the most important thing I can do, and as you mentioned…the number one investment that I can place in my children is time. Kids spell love, t-i-m-e.” - Joe White

“[In] America…we like our tea really hot right now, and we like our tea really cold right now. We either want it icy cold or just barely hot enough where it doesn’t burn your tongue. We are a country of extremes. We don’t like anything lukewarm. Unfortunately, in the area of discipline and in the area of activity, the pendulum generally swings way to the left or way to the right.” - Joe White