Benjamin Watson Quotes
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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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When someone mistreats you, the correct reaction is not to go out and do something to destroy somebody else's property.
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I didn't know if I was going to be drafted, period. I remember sitting there and just praying that whatever God has for me to happen, and I didn't get any calls from anybody else the whole round. And then I got a call from New England five hours after the draft started.
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I can identify many different experiences that I've had over the course of my life and things that I've witnessed where it seemed that black men, specifically me or someone else may have got the, you know, different treatment than somebody else would in that same situation.
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Preacher's kids usually go one way or the other - way wild, or they follow in their dad's footsteps.
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I have been pulled over, and I have actually worried, 'Is something going to happen to me even though I am a law abiding citizen?' That is a real fear and is something that we have to come to grips with.
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Writing a book is not a small undertaking, but God placed it on my heart to trust Him with such a project.
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Conflict, when mismanaged, destroys.
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What I've found, and what Scripture tells us, is that your faith is not something on the side, something you carry with you - it is inherently who you are.
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It feels great, definitely feels great to have your number called and be a part of the offense.
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I know God has a plan for me. I don't know what it is.
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Conflict, when handled correctly, strengthens.
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When you go to work, you are a Christian at your workplace. You're not a broadcaster who happens to be Christian. You're a Christian.
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Usually, 'All Lives Matter' comes as a response to 'Black Lives Matter'; it doesn't exist in a vacuum. So when people say 'Black Lives Matter,' a lot of times the response 'All Lives Matter' can seem very condescending, dismissive to 'Black Lives Matter.'
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People are hurting and looking for answers. The Gospel gives us hope.
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Jesus meets the physical needs of kids but also tells them how to save their soul.
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The NFL goes to great lengths to protect what it calls 'the integrity of the game.' The same should be said for us as individuals. Integrity, the truthful interaction of word and deed, not only creates leaders in the locker room who are worthy of being followed; it is also vital for success at home.
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We all have the same problem as human beings. And it's something that we are born with, and we just see it manifest in different ways. And in this situation, it's racial. It's brutality. It's people breaking the law. It's the smoke, but the underlying fire is something that we all have to deal with, and that's our sin.
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I think God does a lot of things in different ways.
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The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the gospel.
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A football player at any level must set goals.
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What doesn't allow us to move forward because when we simply - and I've seen it on social media; it really, really upsets me - is to get in our corners and call names and turn our back to each other.
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The thing that happened in Ferguson touched many of us in a specific way.
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My grandfather was born in 1920. His grandfather was born in 1860, at the beginning of the Civil War, into an America where slavery had yet to be abolished. And so, as I have sometimes thought about it, I dodged slavery by just five generations.