Paul Harrell:
CLASS OF 1973
Christiana High SchoolClass of 1973
Newark, DE
Paul's Story
Director of Computer Information Technology -- Missouri Veterans Home - STL. I've been with the State of Missouri over 21 years now. I retired February 1, 2023.
I have two children: Matthew, who is safely home after serving two tours in Iraq, and Alexandra my beautiful daughter. I'm a former High School Teacher, and taught in Texas both History and Business. I am a Private Pilot, and have my license since 1977.
Along with my profession of being an IT Manager, I'm also a Preacher/Teacher, a Calvinist, and hold a Bible study in my home on Wednesday evenings.
I am a simple man with simple taste. I like to go to movies, eat out, live theater, concerts, ride my bike and walk at Creve Coeur Lake. I own my own home in Maryland Heights, MO (Saint Louis).
if When We Would meet, a period then, Always Let Especially Matters Apply To Thee Except Cause and then add, don't you know a period, then COMmunication is important. As you can see, if you will look at what is written in the first sentence, and use only the capital letters, you can communicate with me successfully.
I added the above so you can see what I believe. I have my Sermon notes listed on that site.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.” ― Samuel Johnson
"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion!"
--Alexander the Great
“Honor is simply the morality of superior men.” H.L. Mencken
“Two things are infinite. The Universe and human stupidity. And I’m not so sure about the universe.” — Albert Einstein
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln
"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives." -- Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt
"You don't lead by hitting people over the head--that's assault, not leadership." -- General David Eisenhower
"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." -- General George Patton
“All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” -- Winston Churchill
The Way of Men
“Men cannot be men—much less good or heroic men—unless their actions have meaningful consequences to people they truly care about. Strength requires an opposing force, courage requires risk, mastery requires hard work, honor requires accountability to other men. Without these things, we are little more than boys playing at being men, and there is no weekend retreat or mantra or half-assed rite of passage that can change that. A rite of passage must reflect a real change in status and responsibility for it to be anything more than theater. No reimagined manhood of convenience can hold its head high so long as the ea...Expand for more
rth remains the tomb of our ancestors”
― Jack Donovan, The Way of Men
“There is no point in an adult male’s life when he can be excused from carrying his own weight, except when he is sick, injured, handicapped or old. Human societies accommodate all of these exceptions, but competency has always been crucial to a man’s mental health and sense of his own worth. Men want to carry their own weight, and they should be expected to. As Don Corleone might put it, women and children could afford to be careless for most of human history, but not men. Men have always had to demonstrate to the group that they could carry their own weight.”
― Jack Donovan, The Way of Men
"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against the tyranny in and by the government." "Does the government fear us, "We the People . . . ? Or do we the people fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The government is our servant, not our master." “When the people fear the government, that's tyranny; when the government fears the people, that's freedom.”
-- Thomas Jefferson
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be".
-- Thomas Jefferson
Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadows about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
--P. J. O'Rourke, in Parliament of Whores (1991)
It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.
(Note: Prelate: bishop or abbot of superior rank, to rule over the people.)
--George Bancroft, History of the United States, Volume III, Chapter VI.
Antipas was martyred in front of his Congregation for refusing to deny the Lord Jesus Christ.
Antipas, whose name means “against all,” was advised that “The whole world is against you!” for believing in and following the Lord Jesus Christ as the Son of God; refusing to worship the Emperor as "god"; as a result he was sentenced to be martyred. His response was, “Then, I am against the whole world!” Antipas refused to deny the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth as his Lord, God, and Savior. The Lord Jesus Christ mentions Antipas in the Book of Revelation:
Revelation 2:13
13 I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.
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Paul (<:) Jesus first!
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