Jerry Boykin - The Warrior Soul: Five Powerful Principles to Make You a Stronger Man of God

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AN IMPORTANT NOTE TO READERS

Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary, eleventh edition (Springfield, MA: Merriam-WebsterInc., 2003), s.v., warrior.

CHAPTER 1

THE ORIGINAL UNCLE SAM

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Hugh Percy, Duke of Northumberland, Letters of Hugh, Earl Percy, from Boston andNew York, 17741776, Charles Knowles Bolton, ed. (Boston: Goodspeed, 1902), 5253.

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Leonard, A Veteran Long Before the War for Independence, Sam Whittemore Was AmericasOldest, Bravest Soldier.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

CHAPTER 2

LIFE IS A BATTLE, EARTH IS A WAR ZONE

Sun Tzu, The Art of War (New York: Random House, 2002).

Stu Weber, Spirit Warriors (Eugene, OR: Multnomah, 2003), 19.

Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (New York: Random House, 1985), 248.

Augustine, in The City of God: The city... makes war in order to attain tothis peace; Book XV, chapter 4; Even they who make war desire nothing but victorydesire,that is to say, to attain to peace with glory. For what else is victory than theconquest of those who resist us? And when this is done there is peace. It is thereforewith the desire for peace that wars are waged, even by those who take pleasure inexercising their warlike nature in command and battle. Augustines The City ofGod, trans. by Marcus Dods (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1952), 458, 586.

Weber, Spirit Warriors, 2425.

Victor Hanson, The Soul of Battle (New York: Anchor Books, 2001), dust cover.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Cliff Graham, Day of War(Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2009), Note to the Reader.

Ibid.

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Attributed to Napoleon by Maturin M. Ballou, Treasury of Thought: Forming anEncyclopedia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (Boston: Osgood and Co.,1872), 407.

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CHAPTER 3

GETTING A GRIP ON THE WARRIOR SOUL

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As quoted in Rick Atkinson An Army at Dawn (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2002).

Ralph J. Hall, Slacker, Think It Over, Songs From the Trenches, ed. HerbertAdams Gibbons (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893 and 1918), 6768.

Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Nashville: Thomas Nelson,2010), back cover.

As quoted by Major Edwin N. McClellan, USMC, The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, inThe United States Navy in the World War by James Clayton Russell and William EmmetMoore (Washington, DC: US government publication, 1921), 299.

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,and cites H. A. de Weerd, Selected Speeches and Statements of General of the ArmyGeorge C. Marshall, 121125.

CHAPTER 4

FIVE CORE REALITIES

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Rasmussen, Countering Impact of Persistent Conflict Through Holistic Fitness.

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As quoted by Lt. Col. G. F. R. Henderson, Stonewall Jackson and the American CivilWar, vol. 1 (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898), 200.

Dr. Hunter McGuire, Account of the Wounding and Death of Stonewall Jackson,published in the Richmond Medical Journal, May 1866; as included in Hunter McGuireand George L. Christian, The Confederate Cause and Conduct in the War Between theStates (Richmond, VA: L. H. Jenkins, 1907), 229.

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CHAPTER 5

A TRANSCENDENT CAUSE

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My friend uses these three, but perhaps he borrowed them from Harry R. Jackson,who recounted this process in his book The Way of the Warrior (Grand Rapids, Michigan:Chosen Books, 2005), 2831.

Lt. Gen. A. A. Vandegrift, Religion on Guadalcanal, in Faith of Our Fighters,ed. Chaplain Ellwood C. Nance (St. Louis: Bethany Press, 1944), 242.

Stephen Mansfield, Faith of the American Soldier (Lake Mary, FL: FrontLine, 2005),39.

Winston Churchill, My Early Life (New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1930), 276.

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Stephen Ambrose, The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998), 351.

,and cites H. A. de Weerd, Selected Speeches and Statements of General of the ArmyGeorge C. Marshall, 121125.

Karl Marlantes, What It Is Like to Go to War (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press,2011), 144.

Ibid., xi.

Ibid., 34.

Ibid., 7.

Ibid., 78.

Ibid., 8.

Ibid., 44.

Ibid., 45.

C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York: William Collins Sons, 1952), 4041.

Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death (New York: Free Press, 1973), 6.

Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire (New York: Doubleday, 1998), 35.

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As quoted in Don M. Snider, ed., The Warriors Character (New York: McGraw-Hill,2013), xvi.

Don Snider, Forging the Warriors Character: Moral Precepts from the Cadet Prayer(Indianapolis: Learning Solutions, 2007). The author is a professor of politicalscience at West Point, and has been a member of the academys civilian faculty since1990.

As quoted in Snider, The Warriors Character, x.

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CHAPTER 6

A SETTLED MEMORY

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Stu Weber, Infinite Impact (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2008),3137.

Rod Gragg, By the Hand of Providence: How Faith Shaped the American Revolution(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010), 83.

As quoted by Patrick J. Buchanan in The Death of the West: How Dying Populationsand Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization (New York: Thomas DunneBooks, 2002), 147.

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George Washington, letter to General John Armstrong, March 11, 1792, as givenin The Writings of George Washington, vol. XII, ed. Jared Sparks (Boston: John B.Russell, 1837), 403.

John Adams, recorded as notes for an oration at Braintree, as quoted by DavidMcCullough in John Adams (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001), 70.

As quoted by Richard Beeman in Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution(New York: Random House, 2009), 412; citing ed. Max Farrand, The Records of the FederalConvention of 1787, rev. ed. (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1937,repr. 1966), vol. 3, 85.

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As quoted in Karel Montor, Naval Leadership: Voices of Experience (Annapolis,MD: United States Naval Institute, 1998), 157.

As relayed to the authors.

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John Adams letter of October 11, 1798, as quoted in David Barton, America DistinctivelyChristian, in Christian America? Perspectives on Our Religious Heritage, ed. DarylC. Cornett (Nashville: B&H Publishing, 2011), 31; citing