What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.

Why should we be part of a force going into a country where there has been complete lawlessness? Why should we put the lives of our soldiers on the line in order to restore order in a country where there is none?

No religious law should have the force of secular law,

Nothing will convince me there wasn't a divine element here. People gave sacrificially. They gave more than they could afford. They just did it.

Gets you through any sermon, I tell you.