The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.
Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains.
When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.
Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.
The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.
One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.
It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias
There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.
To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.
Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.
When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.
The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.
Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.
It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.
A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.
God tests, but he does not tempt.
A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.
I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ's sake, or rather their own sake, best beware of getting roasted by their own medicine. Ah! Our delusions of trying to argue against an omniscient Creator.
Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!
I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.
It can be a good thing if deeper theology, or philosophy, only makes one more uncertain. It may lead to a healthy doubt; he may throw his hands up saying, 'God, I just don't know anymore. If you're out there, I'm giving it all to you.' From there, after the surrender, he is allowing God himself, rather than theories, books, and documents, to take over and lead him into all truth.
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