Ron Brackin
58 quotes
"When God asks a question, it is always rhetorical."
"Not much has changed in the past 6,000 years. We still hide from God because we know we're naked."
"Confusion and doubt are an important part of faith."
"We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we're looking for."
"If it is true, as God says, that we are as we think, we risk becoming what we most fear if our fear is stronger than our love."
"The nature of a true seeker after beauty is to overlook flaws."
"Who but the Christian, among the religions of the world and throughout time, worships a God who loves him so much that he died an agonizing and wretched death to pay for his sins?"
"It is not sufficient for artistic expressions to serve as "signposts declaring what it is to be fully human." They should impart a vision of what it can be to become divine."
"Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter."
"Art--music, painting, sculpture, dance, drama--opens doors to our soul, exposing our lives to whom or what we allow to enter."
"Lust is insatiable, whether it feeds on power, wealth, or flesh. It eventually consumes our morality and ultimately consumes our humanity."
"If sex is a skill, with its attendant expectations, frustrations, and failures, you are graded on performance; if it is an expression of love and commitment, you are not graded at all."
"Man's strongest instinct is not sex or self-preservation. it's to level the playing field."
"Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth."
"No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity."
"Writers block occurs when a writer has nothing to say. Unfortunately not all writers experience it."
"An individual who delights at all in the beauty of language does well to avoid becoming an attorney or a legislator."
"Faith is such a wonderful thing. Without it, we would be panicky when we feel like we're standing alone and when the things we need and yearn for seem to be beyond our reach."
"If we were able to distill all human experience to its essence, it would be a question on the lips of a man named Jesus. As he asked Peter, he asks all mankind, "Who do you say that I am?" "Our idea of God," observed Thomas Merton, "tells us more about ourselves than about Him."
"If one man challenges a statement and another cannot prove it, it does not necessarily follow that the statement is false."
"Gray areas are just the inability to distinguish between darkness and light."
"One problem with today's culture is that we defend too many rights and ignore too many wrongs."
"Mankind's first sin gave us the ability to know both good and evil. Our subsequent sins make us increasingly unable to tell the difference."
"That America is an exceptional nation is unclear only to one who has not been taught its true history. It ceases to be exceptional only when its representative leaders cease to be exceptional. America, it has been said, is a nation of laws, not of men. The more it becomes a nation of men, the less it remains America."
"Complete honesty is not the same thing as full disclosure."