Do not tell someone you are hungry if, whenever they feed you, you do not eat.
The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.
God is not some lesser employee, as many try to make Him out to be: rather He is the ultimate Treasure. He works in a man; He works on a man; He works through a man; He works around a man. Know that He does far more than simply work for a man. And yet, even as He Himself needs no one else, everyone else is ever in need of Him.
God loves each person, I believe; although, just like we do in our private homes, He reserves His kingdom only for those whom He enjoys.
The poorly sophisticated, since many of us are, as presumed to be, lacking in good arguments, we are then prone to being well-versed in insults.
Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known.
Today’s zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious.
Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: ‘I must stop him before he stops me.’ In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful.
Wisdom without Christ brings bitterness; with Christ it brings compassion.
Time and time over it is the ones who try a little too hard to be innovative rebels – and for the sheer glory of being considered innovative rebels – who then turn out not quite as innovative or as rebellious as they would like to think they are.
It’s always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics’ ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they’ll still have a water gun stashed somewhere.
The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.
Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not a fear of what is bad.
Perhaps it is true that, by some definitions, Satan is more religious than God. Many of the particularly proud sinners are deceived into thinking that Satan is anti-religious, that he likes seeing people do immoral things simply because he likes immoral things. Doubtful; Satan likes for people to do immoral things so that he can blame them for doing immoral things. The Father of Lies laughs not with his teammates, but at them.
Christ died not so that you could freely go on sinning, and therefore, continue dying; He died rather so that you could freely grow in obedience, and therefore, start living.
There are no keys to success – only tools.
The fans are always more radical than that which they are fans.
Without Christ a people may always have the freedom to do, but never the power to complete.
To me, many of what seemed to be Bible contradictions only pointed to the grace of Christ. It is not so much a rule book on how to be holy as it is a prophecy of the One who can make you holy. In this, I see God as the least bigoted of all in existence: While men always, in their hearts, delight in vengeance for being wronged, God is the only Being who wants to free you from the penalty of His own laws.
Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one’s pride in proving oneself right with one’s zeal for finding the truth.