A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.
The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.
Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.
He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.
The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.
God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.
A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.
I prefer to unwind by DJing. I learned that from Mike D from the Beastie Boys. After a show, he would DJ. Once I saw that, I wanted to do that. And now DJing is like my lifeline. I love the power it represents.
Most people know intuitively that when you fall in love, the world is full of magic. What they don't know is that when you discover the universe is full of magic, you fall in love with the world.
It's the responsibility of men of religion to. . . present religion as a way of tolerance, not as a cover for bloodshed.
What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.