“God didn’t call you to a playground, but a battleground”

A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.

Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.

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Entry from June 11, 2023

“God didn’t call you to a playground, but a battleground”

“God didn’t call you to a playground, but a battleground” is a saying that has been printed on many images.

“God didn’t call you to a playground but a battleground. http://tinyurl.com/d8ptym7 #quotes” (the link is to livinglearningandloving.com) was posted on Twitter by Sam Smith #quotes on August 13, 2012. “God didn’t call you to a playground but a battleground. - http://livinglearningandloving.com” was posted on Twitter by LivingLearningLoving on February 14, 2013. The LivingLearningLoving website is no longer working, and the citation does not appear to be available on the Wayback Machine.

Twitter
Sam Smith #quotes
@SamSmithStudios
God didn’t call you to a playground but a battleground. http://tinyurl.com/d8ptym7 #quotes
11:53 PM · Aug 13, 2012

Twitter
LivingLearningLoving
@learning_loving
God didn’t call you to a playground but a battleground. - http://livinglearningandloving.com
6:33 PM · Feb 14, 2013

Twitter
Studio99 Network
@Design_Studio99
God didn’t call you to a playground but a battleground. - http://studio99net.net
6:48 PM · Feb 14, 2013

Twitter
BOSSY MONICA
@LeMarquand
God didn’t call you to a playground….
(The following text is shown on an image.—ed.)
God didn’t call you to a playground
but a battleground.
freebiblestudiesonline.org
12:24 PM · Jun 8, 2014

Twitter
Robert Dean Steel
@revdean100
God didn’t call you to a playground but to a battleground.
5:36 PM · May 21, 2016

iFunny
Dickhoits
18 feb 2020
God didn’t call you to a playground rm buta battleground. I.

Twitter
AMERICAN BADASS 🇺🇲
@ABadassPatriot
(The following text is shown on an image.—ed.)
God didn’t call
you to a
playground, but
a battleground.
4:05 PM · Jun 11, 2023

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