I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.
Go on, then, and let your intent be seriousness.
And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.
This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.
I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.
Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.
I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.
Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
Corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.
In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world.
I try to win every tournament.