The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord.
It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being a human being. Any man who thinks himself to be free of hypocrisy while committed to cherry-picking others for such, I am confident, the Almighty can prove to him a great deal of his own hypocrisy even beyond his earthly comprehension.
Of course we’ll win. And even if we were to lose, we’d win at losing.
To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.
If your doctrine changed for the better yet your character changed for the worse, you changed for the worse.
In their minds, it seems as though people don’t often have the same answers, but in their hearts, they do very frequently have the same questions.
It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.
To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy – that is the greatest dare.
God will save whomever He chooses to save. The Christian should proselytize not because he thinks he can change everybody; he should proselytize because the Gospel being shared is the ultimate act of love: because he thinks he can love everybody.
There are some who never try, get left behind, forever dying, they just sit it by on the sidelines while they criticize, hide and scrutinize; but then there are others who are tough enough, who stand to risk their wrongs, flying high, as they rise up in this life and thus, fight right through the lies.
Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned.
Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who’s still winning.
Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.
Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It’s about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society.
False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.
Freedom of speech is detestable only to those who have no desire to think for themselves.
Their doubt is your fuel for dreams. You just have to drive.
Christ didn’t join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield.
Heroic ambition seemed to have been the cause of much of the world’s pain then – quite like it is now. No villain ever saw himself a villain: he only saw himself a hero; and this goes just as no hero ever saw himself a hero: he simply did what he had to do. No true hero initially sets out with intentions of being deemed a hero.
Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don’t argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you missed a spot.