In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.
Intemperance in talk makes dreadful havoc in the heart.
The commands of God are all designed to make us more happy than we can possibly be without them.
To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.
The greatest of all disorders is to think we are whole and need no help.
The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.
It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.
It's been a wild ride. I hope people can appreciate how special it is to see the people that ran well today; how special and sometimes fleeting greatness can be even from yourself. I gave it everything I had and for a short period of time I did very very well and I'm very proud of that and I'm leaving it at that. I did the best I could.
I write when I can. I have no set writing practices, or times, or methods. I write when I'm not doing other things - in the odd times when I'm traveling, or in hotels, or when I get time to be alone with my thoughts.
Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.
On two subjects the overwhelming majority of people regarded their own opinions as Absolute Truth, and sincerely believed that anyone who disagreed with them was immoral, outrageous, sinful, sacrilegious, offensive, intolerable, stupid, illogical, treasonable, actionable, against the public interest, ridiculous, and obscene. The two subjects were (of course) sex and religion.