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But All At Once I Realized That It Was Not My Success God Had Used To Enable Me To Help Those In This Prison, Or In Hundreds Of Others Just Like It. My Life Of Success Was Not What Made This Morning So Glorious -- All My Achievements Meant Nothing In God's Economy. "no, The Real Legacy Of My Life Was My Biggest Failure -- That I Was An Ex-convict. My Greatest Humiliation -- Being Sent To Prison -- Was The Beginning Of God's Greatest Use Of My Life; He Chose The One Thing In Which I Could Not Glory For His Glory.

We Americans Think We Enjoy Self-government. We Have All The Trappings Of Self-government, Like Elections. But In Reality, We Have Gradually Lost Many Of Our Rights To Govern Ourselves. We Have The Form Of Self-government, But Only Some Of The Substance. We Are, In A Sense, A Nation Run By A Handful Of Judges Who Often Enforce, Not The Law, But Their Personal Opinions.

People Who Reject Transcendent Authority Can No Longer Persuade One Another Through Rational Arguments; Everything Is Reduced To Personal Opinion. Debates About Ideas Thus Degenerate Into Power Struggles; We're Left With No Moral Standard By Which To Measure The Common Good. For That Matter, How Can There Be A 'common Good' Without An Objective Standard Of Truth?

Some Say Society Must Change In Order To Change People. No, People Must Be Changed In Order To Change Society.

Remain At Your Post And Do Your Duty - For The Glory Of God And His Kingdom.