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"A great reformation and revival-it will happen the same way the early Christians conquered Rome. Their program of conquest consisted largely of two elements: gospel preaching and being eaten by lions, a strategy that has not yet captured the imagination of the the contemporary church."
"Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry."
"To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving."
"God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents."
"Honor must start in the heart, but if it ends there, it isn’t honor. Honor must be expressed through words, symbols, actions, or gestures. Honor is among the most incarnational of the virtues. It must have feet and hands."
"I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it."
"Pace yourself in your reading. A little bit every day really adds up. If you read during sporadic reading jags, the fits and starts will not get you anywhere close to the amount of reading you will need to do. It is far better to walk a mile a day than to run five miles every other month. Make time for reading, and make a daily habit of it, even if it is a relatively small daily habit."
"I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked."
"Beware of anyone who claims to be neutral, for they always have an agenda."
"But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two: I hate Him."
"Education is the process of selling someone on books."
"If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else"
"Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form."
"Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate."
"It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest."
"Use plants to bring life"
"If it does not come at the last to gladness, then to hell with it."
"I'm having the time of my life and I'm glad people are enjoy it."
"Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility."
"Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS."