Every exceptional bias against Christianity I find to be evidence for its validity.
The denial of truth does not harm the Truth; it only harms that which denies the Truth.
Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: ‘If it’s not about Christ, it’s not about life.
The petty man wants to use God for himself; the ambitious man wants God to use him for God.
So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its finest, most faulty manifestation; there can be no true ignorance without first some claim of intelligence or consciousness, or superiority or enlightenment.
In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on.
The hardest chore to do, and to do right, is to think. Why do you think the common man would choose labor, partially, as a distraction from his own thoughts? It is because that level of stress, he most absolutely abhors.
One’s suffering, one’s melancholy is, in itself, really only looked upon as failure or as punishment, as detestable or sinful or socially unacceptable in the eyes of man; but this is not so in the eyes of God: for He is close to the broken-hearted.
Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.
The extent of creativity to which I admire in an individual is his ability to be richly creative while still, in a way, telling the truth. It is the fool who creates only his own lies, and the bore who simply repeats what he is told.
The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than others, but he who is sure enough that he can bear to esteem others higher than himself.
Men promise freedom while establishing laws; God promises laws while establishing freedom.
Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.
Static people love to compensate for their inability to change themselves by always trying to change the world.
There is nothing new under the sun but that of the Son. Man’s rebellion against God has always been because he would rather fall in pride than rise in humility.
Life is about discovering things worth dying for.
You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind’s desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener – he goes on holding shady opinions regardless of where the realities of their lights and darknesses may stand.
We live in an age so legalistic, we find it hard to imagine someone wanting to obey their Lord simply because they love their God.
Where neither go wrong, the naive only see the world as a victim of bad doctrine; the cynic only sees good doctrine as a victim of the world.
If you’re not a smart worker, it’s about how hard you work double the amount from the heart; if you’re not a hard worker, it’s about how smart you work but times two from the brain.