Their dream was a tower. A tower that would be taller than anyone had ever dreamed. A tower that would punch through the clouds and scratch the heavens.
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"I'll only need to do it this once," justifies the salesman as he lies about his product.
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Blind ambition. Distorted values.
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God wont tolerate it. He didn't then and he won't now. He took the "Climb to Heaven Campaign" into his hands. With one sweep he painted the tower gray with confusion and sent workers babbling in all directions. He took man's greatest achievement and blew it into the winds like a child blows a dandelion.
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Are you building any towers? Examine your motives. And remember the statement imprinted at the base of the windswept Tower of Babel: Blind ambition is a giant step away from God and one step closer to catastrophe.

-an extract from God Came Near by Max Lucado