I just dress up what the Good Lord provides.
If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt. . . . There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt.
I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.
American views today are weak, confused, and divided. On one side, many progressive liberals still think that we humans are essentially good and getting better and better. On the other side, many postmoderns actually think it is worse to judge evil than to do evil. And in the middle, many ordinary folk plaster life with rainbows and smile buttons and wander through life on the basis of sentiment and clichés.
We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone. We are not called first to special work but to God. The key to answering the call is to be devoted to no one and to nothing above God himself.
Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.
Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.
. . . Change doesn't happen overnight-it's molded by people who don't give up
Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.
I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.
As there can be no causeless wealth, so there can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion.