“You know what temptations are, you know how real they are. Yet I am commanded by God not to move in that direction, but to honor Him, because He wishes to live in this body. So whatever you are battling, here’s what I say to you: invite Him to live within you. That is to be His residence. And then let the One Who occupies that building tell you how to manage it and how to live with it.”

“Senator, the primitive and often, even, atavistic aspects of the battlefield test the physical strength, the mental agility of everyone, but most of what it tests is the courage and the spiritual side of the troops we put in harm’s way. And oftentimes it’s only unit cohesion, leadership, and the belief in themselves and their comrades that allows them to go through what they have to go through and come home as better men and women, and not as broken. And so, The ‘warrior ethos’ is not a luxury, it is essential, when you have a military.”