"If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion."

"I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one."

"One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now live in an age where, apart from the inability to bear even good judgment when it so passes by, still everyone, inevitably, has a viral opinion (judgment) about everything and everyone, but little skill in good judgment as its verification or harness."

"God hates sin not because he wants us to be good little boys and girls, but because he knows sin destroys that which he loves most: sinners."

"When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing."

"Freedom of speech is detestable only to those who have no desire to think for themselves."

"Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it."

"Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank."

"When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person."

"Excuses will become self-refuting. No man who does not believe that Jesus is the perfect, sinless Son of God can, in his desperation and love for sin, reasonably use and misconstrue Jesus' words that unless a Christian is perfect, then that Christian cannot judge sin. Otherwise this non-believer is unconsciously entertaining a belief that Jesus, unlike any other man to ever live, was indeed perfect and sinless in His judgments and therefore that Christian is supposed to be like Him."

"Don't change your mind just because people are offended, change your mind if you're wrong."

"As a poet there is something about joy I find hard to express, whereas every other emotion is rather simple. For instance, you never feel so bad that you can't describe how bad you feel, but joy on the other hand is far too divine for human language."

"God is so omnipotent yet man so impotent, the Divine masterpiece was not even in creating the universe, but in making sin boring to sinners."

"As a kid my heart would break for the villains."

"Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone."

"This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive."

"Rebuke without love is abuse. But, a love that would never rebuke? I dare to admit that that, too, would be a kind of abuse."

"I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American."

"We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in."

"Always have there been great numbers of individuals who were very much eager to fight for good causes. Always there were these, but then there were even greater numbers of trendies who would then become wholly and completely misguided in the efforts."

"We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can't see them under our big noses."

"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."

"Credentials are like potential energy, the compliments of a name on paper, in documents, word of mouth, but faith is like kinetic energy, the motion and the force that which is witnessed. Hence in the end it is the faith rather than the credentials that really takes you places."

"When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables."

"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."

"I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity."

"What we fail to realize is we often become like Pharisees in our ruthless attempts to identify Pharisees (and impostors). While indeed some people use the old laws of religious pride to tear down men of God, others use the new laws of anti-religious anger to tear down men of God."

"Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them."

"You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity."

"Store up knowledge. Then question your own knowledge in order to expand your mind, both to build and to create more space. Then store up more knowledge. And so on. That is wisdom."

"Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of."

"Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love, but respect for criticism; intelligence without pretense; humility without self-loathing; and a mind open, but with solid convictions."

"Fashion is simply a guideline for style-less people to appear stylish."

"It's not at all hard to understand a person it's only hard to listen without bias."

"When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction."

"Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do."

"If you are not there for other people, do not expect them to be there for you. In many a case one might conclude that this is part of God's sovereign justice. His grace, however, is that He Himself will always be there for you, no matter what."

"It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance."

"Christ commands his people to love their enemies, because if not, that would rule out pretty much the entire world."

"Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality."

"Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me."

"Of course we'll win. And even if we were to lose, we'd win at losing."

"We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves."

"Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert."

"Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted."

"On the one hand you had people constantly fighting Hell; on the other, you had people constantly fighting Hell on earth."

"On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes."

"The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity."

"Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care."

"Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience."