Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.
Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face.
We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.
You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.
Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.
The faithful man perceives nothing less than opportunity in difficulties. Flowing through his spine, faith and courage work together: Such a man does not fear losing his life, thus he will risk losing it at times in order to empower it. By this he actually values his life more than the man who fears losing his life. It is much like leaping from a window in order to avoid a fire yet in that most crucial moment knowing that God will appear to catch you.
A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.
Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.
In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.
The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.
What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.
Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.
You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.
To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him.
Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.
When we look for success, it should be for the sole purpose of boasting sincerely in Christ. There's no other reason for it. Success is only worth it when the more intense it gets for you, the more you find yourself bragging for his glory rather than your own.
I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.
A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.
A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.
A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.
The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.
Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically sick, hurting, and broken individual, yet ironically, many of its critics are those who ran away and permanently denounced its members after they visited and felt that they were sneezed on.
In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.
Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.
I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.
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