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In every case, here's the challenging bottom line: practicing tough love is- without question- toughest on the man who loves the most.

— William G. Boykin Man to Man: Rediscovering Masculinity in a Challenging World (2020)

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Terrorists strike like lightning- hard, fast, and without warning.

Never Surrender (2008)

Talk through options and offer suggestions. Don't ignore an obvious problem in your family life and in your marriage.

Man to Man: Rediscovering Masculinity in a Challenging World (2020)

Big talkers have a greater tendency to compromise you than the strong, silent types who aren't so eager to transmit the latest insider gossip. You have to think about those characteristics.

Man to Man: Rediscovering Masculinity in a Challenging World (2020)

They’re after us because we’re a Christian nation.

I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
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