The Warrior Priest Podcast

Many churches today want to avoid the 800 pound gorilla in the room. They’re obedient to government and culture instead of Christ. They’re about works-righteousness instead of the Gospel. They’re obsessed with making the world a better place, even though that’s not the primary mission of the Church. Churches today are more worried about complying with the government and marching in step with culture than obeying God’s call for them to be conformed to the image of the Son.

Men of Athens, will you send your sons to contest the monster, Philip? Or have you grown so fat and happy that you care not, and instead dispatch hired troops, who are not of our blood or kin? Will these mercenaries, who fight only for profit, possess the will to hold Philip back? Or will the day come when we awake to discover that we have ceded future liberty to current ease? - Demosthenes The Warrior Ethos, by Steven Pressfield - https://www.amazon.com/Warrior-Ethos-Steven-Pressfield/dp/193689100X

Government and religious leaders to this day still want you to believe that your safety and security comes from their power and authority. This is, of course, a lie that too many people blindly accept as truth. Christ, on the other hand, tells you that all power and authority is found in God alone.

No matter how much it hurts keep going, because when you look back and realize that you could have given more it will be more agonizing then any pain you may have been feeling in those brief moments. - Kevin Ross https://thesoulassassin.com/

The only thing too old for jiu-jitsu is the question of whether or not you are too old for jiu-jitsu... - Chris Zahar https://www.jiujitsutimes.com/four-reasons-to-stop-asking-if-you-are-too-old-for-jiu-jitsu/

“Only great pain, the long, slow pain that takes its time... compels us to descend to our ultimate depths... I doubt that such pain makes us "better"; but I know it makes us more profound... In the end, lest what is most important remain unsaid: from such abysses, from such severe sickness, one returns newborn, having shed one's skin... with merrier senses, with a second dangerous innocence in joy, more childlike and yet a hundred times subtler than one has ever been before." ― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

The more of us set out together, the thicker our ranks, the easier and shorter will this path be for us all! If we become thousands—they will not cope, they will be unable to touch us. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Essay Link: https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/live-not-by-lies

We are approaching the brink; already a universal spiritual demise is upon us; a physical one is about to flare up and engulf us and our children, while we continue to smile sheepishly and babble: “But what can we do to stop it? We haven’t the strength.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Link to essay: https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/live-not-by-lies

One of a fighter’s greatest and most difficult tasks is dealing with fear. I always get nervous before fights and at the beginning of my fight career I rejected... - Sylvie von Duuglas-Ittu https://8limbsus.com/muay-thai-thailand/fighters-fear-like-feathers-stroking-face-how-to-accept-it

Winners are not created in a vacuum, after all. There are countless variables operating, most of which go unnoticed by the viewer. Of these factors, the value of losing is perhaps most often overlooked. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1974900-mma-psychology-the-psychology-of-losing-in-mixed-martial-arts