The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.
If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.
Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.
A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.
Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires.
Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.
To ask, 'How do you do it?' is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a 'how' if there is a big enough 'why'.
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.
I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.
Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.
I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.
Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.
All individuals have moral deficiencies, and when introducing these to reality one not only strengthens himself but also the confidence of others in the human exigency for Christ due to a reflection throughout the body of Christ.
Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.
Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.
Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever
What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.
I have a thing for things that last.
In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.
The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.