Cap Daniels > Quotes

“Admit Nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter Accusations.”
― Cap Daniels, The Opening Chase

“tried to sleep. From the pilothouse of the aged trawler, I peered through my binoculars and the windscreen toward the yacht. When my eyes adjusted”
― Cap Daniels, The Opening Chase

“Most of the things we worry about can’t be changed, so I choose not to let them pull me down.”
― Cap Daniels, The Blind Chase

“You will learn patience. This is one of the things that life always teaches”
― Cap Daniels, The Russian's Pride

“I didn’t have a real answer for that question, so I redirected. “Do you believe you have a soul, Mike?” “Who knows?” I was about to unleash a timeless truth I learned from the writing of C. S. Lewis, and I prayed it would hit the mark. “Here’s what I believe. You don’t have a soul, and neither do I.” He screwed up his face. “What are you talking about? I thought having a soul is what the whole thing is about. I thought people like you believed they knew all about the soul and all that, but now you’re telling me I don’t even have one?” I smiled. “That’s exactly what I’m telling you. You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You are that spirit that loves and adores your baby girl. You are that invisible energy that inherently knows what Smith and the others did is wrong. You don’t have a soul, Mike, because you are a soul. You have a body. And that body will fail and die one day, but you—the real you, that soul inside your temporary body—will live on, either being rewarded for accepting the love of God and believing He sent His son to die and pay the price we could never pay, or you’ll spend all eternity separated from that loving God, your beautiful little girl, and everything that’s good.” He and I sat in utter silence for what felt like an eternity before I said, “You don’t have to believe right now. I get it. I’ve been there. But for the sake of your soul and for Madeline’s, just be open to the possibility and remember how you felt the very first time you ever held her.”
― Cap Daniels, The Calling Chase: A Chase Fulton Novel

“Staying in the fight to win it all. I had no idea that those words would echo through my”
― Cap Daniels, The Abandoned Chase

“Survival was an unending process—until it wasn’t. The time for evasion had long passed. I had resisted, and I would continue to do so if and when the trunk came open.”
― Cap Daniels, The Abandoned Chase

“gentleness, and self-control, against such things there is no law.”
― Cap Daniels, Singer: (A Novel) Memoir of a Christian Sniper

“Like most days of my adult life, I watched the dawn gently consume the night and cast its long-reaching shadows across the sand and sea. The shadows, though visible and blatant,”
― Cap Daniels, The Darker Chase

“Point your toes at the target. Your motion is always going to follow your toes, so we always start with that foundation.”
― Cap Daniels, The Bitter Chase

“can be there before you.”
― Cap Daniels, The Calling Chase: A Chase Fulton Novel

“It’s all about the love, Willy. He wants to give you everything—peace, joy, comfort, security, forgiveness . . . All of it. He came to Earth in the form of His only son and paid a price for our sins that only He could pay. We could never do enough to deserve His forgiveness and His love, but that’s the best part. We don’t have to do anything to deserve it or earn it. All we have to do is believe, which involves repenting, acknowledging, and accepting Jesus as our Lord and Savior. That’s the first step in shrugging off the old man and taking Jesus into our hearts.”
― Cap Daniels, Singer: (A Novel) Memoir of a Christian Sniper

“Freedom, purely for freedom’s sake, is the noblest of all pursuits, and the heroes who taught me that eternal truth were sitting a dozen rows behind me, watching me parade around like a clown in a wasted, useless ceremony, bestowing a collection of letters after the name of a man who would likely one day fall to the blood-soaked earth beside one or more of them in defense and preservation of what we love and hold most dear. Ceremonies and titles have never, and will never, make the world safer, nor mankind freer, for it is the blood of noble patriots and the”
― Cap Daniels, The Darker Chase

“I belonged in the Caribbean where ice came in the form of cubes under scotch or froth in a daiquiri. I’d never been more distant from everything I considered my home in either geography or my heart.”
― Cap Daniels, The Distant Chase

“Yeah, it’s dangerous, but everything worth doing comes with a price. We can’t change that.”
― Cap Daniels, Singer: (A Novel) Memoir of a Christian Sniper

“Lift with your knees to save your back, and think with your big head to save your ass. That’s how Dr. Richter, my favorite”
― Cap Daniels, The Forgotten Chase

“He said, “Their passing left a void in you, and in us, but God wants us to praise Him for the great reward Rose and your baby are enjoying today. Weep for their loss, son. You wouldn’t”
― Cap Daniels, Singer: (A Novel) Memoir of a Christian Sniper

“We should write freely, wholly unfettered by convention, sobriety, rule, and devoid of any expectation of acceptance. Only then, through naked, fearless self-exorcism of our demons can the essence of our souls be poured out fully and honestly onto the pages of our creation.”
― Cap Daniels

“of absence, but those men know that peace is fleeting and their rest only momentary, for their battle resumes and rages on with the undefeatable passage of time.”
― Cap Daniels, The Darker Chase

“Knowing where you came from and the foundations you were built on can be a powerful thing, especially when the whole world seems to be crashing down around you.”
― Cap Daniels, The Devil's Chase

“What was it that Sunny-Side-Up guy said? Never interrupt your enemy when he’s screwing up?” I shook my head. “I’m pretty sure you mean Sun Tzu,”
― Cap Daniels, The Abandoned Chase

“On Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the stock exchange crashed in horrific fashion and drove home the final nail in the coffin of the American financial system. That event was the genesis of one of the most horrific periods in American history. Over the coming decade, the world followed the United States as it circled the drain. Fortunes were destroyed, millions of homes were foreclosed upon, and unemployment skyrocketed. The extravagance of the Roaring Twenties, greed, and the refusal to heed the warning signs in place since the fall of the Roman Empire were to blame. But just as it had done during every crisis in its history, the great experiment in democracy rose from the ashes, Americans went back to work, fortunes were reestablished, and once again, there was a chicken in every pot . . . just in time for Adolf Hitler to turn the world inside out.”
― Cap Daniels, The Bitter Chase

“Colossians 3:12–13 NASB “So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you.”
― Cap Daniels, Singer: (A Novel) Memoir of a Christian Sniper

“a pilot named Disco sat on the front row in the little wood-frame church in St. Marys, Georgia, while I stood at the altar for my ordination ceremony, officially making me a Baptist minister. Although having those five men sitting on that old wooden pew doesn’t sound like much to the rest of the world, to me, it was a pivotal moment in my life. Those five men had become the family I yearned for, prayed for, and believed I would never have. They showed me a kind of love that only men of God have to give. They took a broken, defeated man without a home and full of anger, and gave me a family—a family full of the gift of the Spirit, which, as our Bible teaches us, is “Love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,”
― Cap Daniels, Singer: (A Novel) Memoir of a Christian Sniper

“I didn’t kill the grenadier out of duty to my country or in the name of freedom. I put two rounds in his chest out of anger and vengeance. When his body collapsed to the street, I roared like a wounded animal and poured three more rounds into his corpse.”
― Cap Daniels, Singer: (A Novel) Memoir of a Christian Sniper

“Thirty years—all of life. And I am still learning. When learning stops, living also stops.”
― Cap Daniels, The Russian's Pride

“My second day in the field hospital began much like every morning of my life—with a prayer of thanksgiving. Before I opened my eye, I thanked God for keeping me alive and for putting me in Willy’s life. I’d”
― Cap Daniels, Singer: (A Novel) Memoir of a Christian Sniper

“I believed there was nothing aerodynamic about the beasts. I didn’t think they actually flew, but instead beat the air into submission.”
― Cap Daniels, The Poison Chase

“People say God works in mysterious ways, but I don’t think that’s true. God works in ways that are mysterious to nonbelievers, but for those of us who trust Him and keep the faith just like Momma taught Billy and me, God”
― Cap Daniels, Singer: (A Novel) Memoir of a Christian Sniper

“minds of batters”
― Cap Daniels, The Opening Chase