"I am not convinced of the argument, 'I want to believe; it is only those awful Christians I hate. They get in the way of my belief.' If you hate Christians more than you love Christ, you do not love Christ. It comes to mind the question, 'If you do not love your brother or sister whom you have seen, how can you love God whom you have not seen?"

"Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives."

"To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect."

"Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither."

"God loves each person, I believe; although, just like we do in our private homes, He reserves His kingdom only for those whom He enjoys."

"Civic duty? Perhaps it would be a little naive to try to coerce me into voting. I assure you my basic standards of healthy living are very different from yours, which is the reason I do not vote. You should note that, as nonsensical a scenario, if forced to choose I would most definitely rather live in a failing, Christ-honoring, God-fearing nation than a flourishing one that mocks said Creator. Beware of my personal ambitions."

"The rather difficult antagonists towards the Church consist not nearly of the cruel and heartless, nihilistic intellectuals who hate God and humanity, but the well-meaning spirits who for the most part lack an understanding of the Spirit."

"Trends are about as fickle as the direction of the wind, as are the legacies of those who flow with them."

"Joy, like love, is an impenetrable, God-given state of being. The distinctions between joy and happiness and love and affection are important ones under the notion that happiness is an 'iffy' emotion, a highly dependent feeling both aroused and destroyed by external conditions apart from God. And the distinction between love and affection is parallel to such."

"I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out."

"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."

"Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance."

"You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place."

"I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules."

"If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic."

"Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life' banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'."

"I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself."

"There is a certain delightful sort of hope which the introvert can receive only by having company over...the hope that they will leave soon."

"The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity."

"Few endeavors, if any at all, I find to be inherently mature or inherently immature. Maturity is neither defined by one's particular preferences nor by one's particular activities; rather, it is defined by the strength of one's character."

"When it comes to judging individuals, I do not like remarks such as 'too good to be true.' They speak as though one is rewarding the nature of evil. Yet, ironically, we still wonder where all the good people have gone."

"The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well."

"The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you."

"To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable, to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength."

"Self-awareness - the commendable ability to be yourself without being a nuisance to someone else."

"Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked."

"Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible."

"Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons."

"To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make!"

"The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption."

"I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore."

"Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar."

"Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression."

"I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved."

"Our poor world aspires simply to point out where Christians have gone wrong, and that is pretty much where it goes wrong. It is as though many of us, when of the world, are actually all the more judgmental: for we are stuck on a bad Christian while the Christian is pinned to a good Christ."

"In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung."

"A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin."

"An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?"

"Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back."

"If I love a dose of (good) theology or philosophy, I probably also love discipline, improvement, wisdom, and challenges. If I hate it, I am probably too comfortable and proud to try to question myself."

"With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are."

"The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms."

"With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement."

"Some people's theologies come across as blatantly wrong when weighed against what is revealed in Scripture. However God has mercy on those who may be wrong but genuinely seek understanding before seeking themselves."

"When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them."

"Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful."

"Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious."

"As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good."

"Comedy to me has always seemed a social tightrope for the comedian. For all axioms intellectually sound the general public would prefer to be amused, but in those emotionally sound, it then chooses to get offended."

"Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent."