To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make!
If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I’d be a skeptic.
The Christian who loves his Master needs not fear any longer for himself. For it is then completely irrational, as it is written thus: ‘Perfect love casts out fear.’ However, it is very much rational for one to instead fear for the enemies of God.
Always have there been great numbers of individuals who were very much eager to fight for good causes. Always there were these, but then there were even greater numbers of trendies who would then become wholly and completely misguided in the efforts.
God’s judgment is not like man’s judgment. It is not a suspension of His Love but an extension of His Love. His justice is always righteous, so His judgment is always Love.
On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.
There’s a certain deeper sort of beauty in the bleak. I see it that bleak is beautiful in part because it is too deathly and grim to fathom itself so.
Envy is Pride’s infection on inspiration... while Angered then Eaten by the Greed of a Lazy Lust.
I need not adapt in certain ways. I am in fact but a visitor to this world, an ephemeral gasp within its long, tired history, and, before anything else, a follower of Christ. By this alone I have the power not to shuffle away from the Faith, the power to break loose from these marching-shackles of ongoing cultural and political pretense.
Through Christ, the sting of death is but a gentle pinch to the soul; and the mourn is light. Perhaps, someday, in that glorious place, free of sin, we shall meet again.
Science is knowledge meeting humility meeting curiosity: ever-evolving, always learning. Atheism is often but knowledge meeting arrogance: a masquerade under the wing of the beauty of science. Religion is infamously a weight under the one wing; then under the other is atheism, the championed masquerade.
Other than out of a pure curiosity and the aim for veracity, or perhaps for educational purposes, why should it matter to you the color of Jesus? Would you love Him and what He has done for you any more or any less? If so, that would be idolatry.
Make way for the sweetest humiliation when you underestimate their intelligence while overestimating your knowledge.
To merely blank the page and vaguely assume that ‘religion’ is the cause of all the world’s problems is, on the contrary, an allegation brought about by nothing more than cognitive lethargy; it is when unburied, unpacked, and exposed but a stale conclusion and a misdirection for the one overwhelmed by centuries of sound theology, scholarly thought, and spiritual development.
In the heart of appeasement there’s the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression.
Where God is like the sun, the Devil is like a raindrop. There is no ‘God vs. Satan’ because they aren’t even that close in power and authority. The former is very patient; the latter is at mercy.
It is by continuing to put out good work that the artist best shows his gratitude.
Respect elders; protect children. This I do believe. As a young man it is sometimes, in a charitable sense, difficult to shake the sentiment that every elderly person is my grandparent, and every child is my child.
Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger and then lift it to the wind; always know what is going on, my friend, so this world can never steer you wrong again.
They have a special confidence in Christ, plus thoughtfulness plus faithfulness plus humility: for there are no things, in all creation, more beautiful, more rare than the so very disciplined and free, joyful and principled daughters of God.