American - Athlete | December 18, 1980 -
There shouldn't be any looting or anything like that. But we're seeing a lot of frustration, and nobody knows the answer. All of us are saying we need an answer, and what I'm saying is we need, all of us, a heart change so, as America, we can move forward.
Benjamin Watson
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There's no reason ever to steal because you're upset.
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I would say that one of the hardest things for an athlete, and really anybody of any profession, is that we create our identity in what we do.
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It's been a constant struggle with my athletic career to identify myself as a child of God and understand that His love is unconditional for us; it's not conditional like fans, or coaches, or even myself.
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Whatever you do, do it wholeheartedly for the Lord and not for man, because our true identity is in Him.
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The thing that happened in Ferguson touched many of us in a specific way.
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We are God's children. We are Christians first, and then what we do flows from that.
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Make sure you know your identity is in Christ, so that when you get laid off from your job, or when you get a raise from your job, or when things don't go right, you're not up and down, up and down.
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We all have faults.
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We all doubt sometimes, and that's okay, but He's always there. He's always faithful even when we're not.
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I think, as athletes, we've been given a platform, and we can use it in a lot of different ways. We can use it for negative. We can use it for positive. We can be indifferent. But if you've been given a platform, I think God is pleased when you share... His truth in love.
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I've heard my father say that the man is to be the priest, the provider, and the protector of his family. He's the priest because he is the spiritual leader, monitoring and growing the spiritual temperature of his family.
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