We find real joy when we keep the Savior the focus of the season.
We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund recipients of the insulated cocoon of academia.
You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them, nor does the resulting quotient have any necessary relationship to anything in the real world.
The minimum wage law very cleverly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay them what they are currently worth to an employer.
One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with the time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
The real minimum wage is zero.
The real problem, both in discussions of mass shootings and in discussions of gun control, is that too many people are too committed to a vision to allow mere facts to interfere with their beliefs, and the sense of superiority that those beliefs give them.
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.
The real culprits are those who created a system that makes it dangerous to work and safe to loaf.
How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.
Someone once defined a social problem as a situation in which the real world differs from the theories of intellectuals. To the intelligentsia, it follows, as the night follows the day, that it is the real world that is wrong and which needs to change.
I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.
Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
If you add anything to Jesus as a requirement for being happy, that’s your real king.
Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.
To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.