“We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.”

“As children of the Lord we should strive every day to rise to a higher level of personal righteousness in all of our actions.”

“A crisis creates the opportunity to dip deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed.”

“Instead of seeing all of this as God's extraordinary grace, we come to expect the comfort and joys that God gives us as the baseline, the measure of what we believe to be our due. When our comfort level drops below our expectations, we are shocked and angered, and even foolishly express our outrage to God Himself.”

“The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.”

“We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.”