Kindle Notes & Highlights
by
Jim Ramos
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September 8 - September 30, 2021
Choice and habit separate the strong man from his weaker counterparts.
Church leaders wonder why strong men would rather go to the mountains on Sunday to think about God than sit in their effeminate church thinking about the mountains!
This a maximum impact book for men who want a target to zero in on their masculine aspirations.
“A shepherd must tend his flock. And at times fight off the wolves.”
“Nothing is true that is new, and nothing is new that is true.” ~John Wesley
The Raising of a Modern Day Knight.
“Accepts responsibility, rejects passivity, leads courageously, and expects a greater reward.”
I don’t care who you are or what you believe, if you lack integrity, you lack everything needed to be a man respected by other men as well as those who know you the most—your family.
protecting integrity, fighting apathy, pursuing God passionately, leading courageously, and finishing strong.
“How can you ever be the man you’ve been designed by God to be, apart from radical devotion to Him? You will never fully understand your life’s purpose until you understand and have a relationship with the God who created you.”
Men aren’t born. Babies are born. Children are raised. But men, oh men, they’re forged in the fires of responsibility, compounded daily over time. A man is made. And after he’s been made, a man acts like a man.
“The American male is in a fundamental struggle for his identity.”
“out love and out serve my wife”,
When a man gets it—everyone wins. Men aren’t born. They’re made.
“Give me one hundred men who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergyman or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon the earth.” ~John Wesley
Manhood is not about appearances. It’s about action.
“Impossibilities vanish when a man and his God confront a mountain.” ~Abraham Lincoln
The goal of Strong Men, Dangerous Times is to define what a man is and does in a world that has blurred the lines.
Bill Perkins wrote, “We live in a time of spiritually passive men who can’t see that we’ve become spiritual jellyfish flowing with cultural norms.”
“protecting integrity”. In a nutshell, integrity is moral and ethical completeness.
You can have everything but without integrity you’ve lost the starting point of manhood.
passionately pursues his Creator.
Kibdda effeminate
radical devotion to your Creator.
My biggest problems came from disengaged “Christian” dads who deferred spiritual leadership to their wives or the local church.
Be forewarned that every climb involves resistance and pain. Strong men aren’t born. They are made. They are forged in the fires of great pain and resistance. Mentally prepare yourself to be challenged as you make the journey that only the strongest men are willing to endure.
D.L. Moody once said, “Integrity is who you are in the dark.”
“firm adherence to a code of values
“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.” ~Saint Augustine
Those who lack integrity over time are identified by their depravity.
Robert Lewis appropriately calls a church’s failure to strategically value men, “The Big Miss.”
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.” ~John Wooden, Ten-time National Champion UCLA basketball coach (1964-1975)
Integrity is the backbone of manhood just as a man is the backbone of his family.
Be accountable for your integrity with people you trust. Don’t be neutral.
Men don’t earn integrity without a fight, just as fish don’t drift upstream.
the man you publicly claim to be matches the private man you actually are.
If your actions don’t match your beliefs, words and thoughts, you’re a man that is out of alignment.
If just one of your character traits is out of order, then you’re lacking in integrity. Integrity is being complete, whole, and unbroken in every character trait. If one area of your character is infected, then you’ve been compromised.
Strong men have a trusted band of brothers who have the guts to call us out on our skubala (Greek for human excrement). Weak men do not.
“Men are made for pressure.”
Frederick Douglass rightly said, “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
Strong men sharpen other men.
Matthew Henry wrote, “It ought to be the business every day to prepare for the final day.”
Soren Kierkegaard, “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love God and do as you please.”
It’s your wife’s job to disciple your children and teach your sons how to be men? It’s your wife’s job to affirm your daughters into beautiful women who are strong, confident, and worthy to be pursued? It’s your wife’s job to get all the kids ready and take them to church while you watch football all Sunday? Only a weak man would ever think that way. Strong men lead the way.
“It’s harder to lead a family than to rule a nation.” ~Chinese proverb
“You have to go out. You don’t have to come back.” ~Unofficial Coast Guard motto
“No man ever steps in the same river twice.”
