QUOTE FOR TODAY AND A BIBLE PASSAGE TO GO WITH IT: "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." (Mark Caine)

"Beloved [here, followers of Christ in first century Asia Minor are being addressed, but the words are for all Christians, whose true home is with God], I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul. Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that, though they malign you as evildoers, they may see your honorable deeds and glorify God when He comes to judge." (First Peter 2:11-12)