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

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

“Listen to me, son. God did not take her from you and from us. It’s easy for us to blame Him for things we’re too weak to understand, but don’t let that happen inside that head of yours. He didn’t take her, but He accepted her soul and the soul of that baby inside her. We’ll be reunited when our time comes, and there will be no more tears or sorrow. He never promised us we’d be without pain here on Earth. The paradise that awaits us when we shed this mortal body is His great promise.” I wanted so badly to say something of value, but I was empty.”
― Cap Daniels, Singer: (A Novel) Memoir of a Christian Sniper

“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

“Able was I ere I saw Elba,”
― Cap Daniels, The Scorpion's Chase: A Chase Fulton Novel

“The remaining three paid the ultimate price while running like frightened mice. With every press of the trigger, part of me died as well. It wasn’t regret that immediately haunted me for the deed I’d done. It was anguish that such a deed was required, regardless of whose trigger finger sent the six rounds downrange.”
― Cap Daniels, Singer: (A Novel) Memoir of a Christian Sniper

“I learned to play baseball in the Dominican Republic with hordes of other children whose lives were nothing like mine. They lived in abject poverty in the third world and didn’t always know when they’d eat their next meal. I was, from their perspective, a child of privilege from America, but baseball erased those imaginary cultural and economic lines. Baseball made us all the same.”
― Cap Daniels, Chase Fulton Novels Boxed Set

“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

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

“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

“Jimmy Singer Grossmann wasn’t God, but he was the closest thing we had to an all-seeing, all-knowing protector, and if he was ready to turn in his rifle, the rest of us had some immense soul-searching to do before we stepped foot into harm’s way again without the faith that we were noble men doing noble work for a noble purpose greater than the sum of us all.”
― Cap Daniels, The Darker Chase

“circadian rhythm”
― Cap Daniels, The Blind Chase

“Leadership comes with more responsibilities than anyone could list in a lifetime.”
― Cap Daniels, The Silent Chase: A Chase Fulton Novel

“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

“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

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

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

“in love with her...we could've been on the eiffel tower or at the bottom of the grand canyon, i would not of known the different".”
― Cap Daniels, The Opening Chase