Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.
If the Bible is God's word, and we believe it, let us handle it with reverence.
The evil of infatuation is illustrated by the drunkard.
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.
Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.
What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.
Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.
The only thing worse than growing up is never quite learning how
It would have been more to the point, more honest and more Christian, in past decades not to support those who intentionally destroyed healthy life than to rebel against those who have no other wish than to avoid disease. Moreover, a policy of laissez faire in this sphere is not only cruelty to the individual guiltless victims but also to the nation as a whole. . . If the Churches were to declare themselves ready to take over the treatment and care of those suffering from hereditary diseases, we should be quite ready to refrain from sterilizing them.
I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.
We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.