Joel Toppen

“The political parties were no longer organizations concerned with administering the country’s affairs. They were election-winning machines.”
― Kyle Mills, Red War

“If we proclaim a gospel that doesn’t emphasize transformation, we end up with a deficit of clean containers, which consequently creates a shortage of God’s manifest presence on the earth.”
― John Bevere, Good or God?: Why Good Without God Isn't Enough

“Leadership is seeing the consequences of our actions further in the future than those around us can.”
― Hans Finzel, The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make

“Like so many other French generals in the Peninsula, he was soon to find that victory is not the same thing as conquest.”
― Charles William Chadwick Oman, A History of the Peninsular War, Volume II January to September 1809: From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaign [Illustrated Edition]