Charity by principle that God will bless you in return is to give with a heart of greed rather than with a heart of love.
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.
Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it’s always because they know why.
It is sometimes but the mere hope for enjoyment that allows one to enjoy something, even when he is not really enjoying it at the moment.
The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.
Sure, some of us humans might be angry at a sovereign God about Hell, but know that that is about as meaningful as a few germs being angry at humans about bleach.
The mob is the most deadly of all critics in that it thinks critically only towards critical thinkers.
The mob, in the spirit of the age, obsessed with being on the right side of history, often ends up on the wrong side of history.
A conspiracy theorist is a critical thinker playing out-of-bounds.
It is not that men become too intelligent for God,′ says the Apologist, ’but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence.
Store up knowledge. Then question your own knowledge in order to expand your mind, both to build and to create more space. Then store up more knowledge. And so on. That is wisdom.
I would hope not to be like the artist who must depend on the naivety of his audience for applause.
In an excuse to drink lies reason not to drink.
That most pleasant weather to feel is the one never felt.
When we deny reason we are prone to holding the rest of the world hostage through the worship of our feelings, thus making feelings no longer sacred and personal and delicate things we can express. Oppositely, this way of life confuses the world and further pushes it to being heartless and unfeeling.
Rebuke without love is abuse. But, a love that would never rebuke? I dare to admit that that, too, would be a kind of abuse.
Wherever it takes disaster to unite, politics generally divide: and in eras of intense uncertainty, a nation’s people retreat into the tribes in which they feel the most secure.
When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted.
April Fools’ is the only day to take people seriously.
I sometimes think as if I am corporate media; I put myself in their shoes: If I could profit off a situation, how would I spin it for the maximum amount of traffic yet still be taken seriously? This, I believe when listening, reading, or watching, helps to discern truth from fact and decipher fact from fiction. It helps to weed out the sensationalism, and you gain a more accurate depiction of the world’s actual condition.