Our poor world aspires simply to point out where Christians have gone wrong, and that is pretty much where it goes wrong. It is as though many of us, when of the world, are actually all the more judgmental: for we are stuck on a bad Christian while the Christian is pinned to a good Christ.
Christ commands his people to love their enemies, because if not, that would rule out pretty much the entire world.
If we all knew who God really was and what he really wanted for each and every one of us, we would all know that only a fool could really deny him.
The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good.
Mock and ridicule men who refuse to use reason and logic; use reason and logic against men who know only how to mock and ridicule.
Still, one can be honest yet quite mistaken.
Animosity in fact loves, but in a different sense. Meaning it loves in the same way that, as it is often said, misery loves company. And just as love seeks unity, so does hatred crave uniformity.
One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.
Let them spend their time condemning every action of persons they do not like; by this let them revoke their own condemnation licenses: no one will take them seriously when it comes time to condemn something that really needs to be condemned, and thus hear, hear, despite the excess noise, the reasonable voices may prevail.
We must not allow our pride to be the motivation behind our apologetics; rather, philoverity, the love of truth must be the full and complete motivation. For pride corrupts truth.
Man’s delight in the Lord is the absolute peak of human triumph. He praises God when full of joy, and when not, he praises God to become full of joy. For to know and to live as though God is worthy of all praise, in all one’s circumstances, whether seemingly good or seemingly bad, is the primary definition of joy and the richest triumph for man under God.
If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous.
It might come a time to not follow your passion, so to speak, although it must be prioritized. It may be the case that your passion will serve as the medic, your peace of mind, alongside a higher calling, with your higher calling being the point man.
When you meet someone and you find that they are prejudiced against your kind, it might be your chance not to confirm but to be the one to finally change their mind.
Any coward can be a peacekeeper! In fact, that comes to one naturally. But they are blessed, the peacemakers... and all those who know the difference.
To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic: to be bad at second-guessing the good.
Sanity for anyone is pretty much out of the question, as both the saint and the sinner appear only equally insane: the saint appears it for actually believing in a place of eternal torment; the sinner, for deciding to risk going to that place of eternal torment.
It is a harsh reality that some of the most important and respectable jobs which deserve high salaries might be better off with low salaries. A politician, or a minister, or a teacher is sure to be working sincerely and selflessly for the good of the people when through and through there is little monetary reward guaranteed. This is how the charlatans are weeded out of the field.
You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.
Narcissists often feign oppression because narcissists always feel entitled.