"You learn there's an awful lot you can do
while having the hell scared out of you."
~Corpsman Langley, from Flags of Our Fathers (p. 159)
I know it's not at all the way he meant it, but when I read this quote I thought about how much more you can accomplish by removing sin ("hell") from your life and replacing it with God. This process can be nearly as scary as what the boys went through at Iwo Jima, although in a totally different way. It's hard to give everything up to God, all the earthly things we are so used to doing and being, but it's amazing what you can do ("an awful lot you can do") once you start to shed sin and follow in the Lord's light.
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