"Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders."

"A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil."

"If you don't like the solution, change the problem."

"The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret."

"Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too evil; the other is that it is not evil enough."

"Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger and then lift it to the wind; always know what is going on, my friend, so this world can never steer you wrong again."

"It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiescence."

"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."

"Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things."

"An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate."

"A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. And in such cases when a rumor is only partially made of truth, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where the information may have gone wrong. It is passed on and on until some brave soul questions its validity; that brave soul refuses to bite the apple and let the apple eat him. Forced to start from scratch for the sake of purity and truth, that brave soul, figuratively speaking, fully amputates the information in order to protect his personal judgment. In other words, his ignorance is to be valued more than the lie believed to be true."

"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."

"Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair."

"The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart."

"The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science."

"Wisdom without Christ brings bitterness, with Christ it brings compassion."

"Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight."

"The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow God who are most like his children, who willingly and consciously walk in his will; but those who oppose him oppose him vainly and at their own expense, and, figuratively, seem to be more like his tools. They don't diminish his glory, but instead he still manages to use them in ways of unconsciously carrying out his will."

"Let's not grow with our roots in the ground."

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

"The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi."

"Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend."

"God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his chemical imbalance and succeeded; oppositely, perhaps the healthy, able and stable man who has never murdered in his life yet went a lifetime consciously, willingly never loving anyone but himself may then be subject to harsher judgment than the extreme mental patient. It might be so that God will stand for the weak and question the strong."

"The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated."

"Even the richest of brands are robbed by poor character."

"If I knew what to doI'd do more than write a song for you."

"On athleticism, God knows no favor. It seems rather he is in the business of teaching winners how to lose and losers how to win."

"For what religion has never had sects? Rest assured, Extremism is always the derriA re."

"The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure."

"What may intimidate a man is a woman who thinks with her mind before she feels with her heart. Nevertheless what determines the strength in the man is his ability to accept one when he sees one."

"The legions who attempt to love without Christ, without a new heart, are indeed able to love amongst themselves; however this love is made possible by restraining any anger or hatred deep within the old heart, only to release it all on whichever village idiot(s) they collectively feel a crucifixion would be justified."

"Every time I create something, whether an idea or a work of art, initially, its supposed completion seems absolutely perfect to me. However the more I think about it, stare it down, the more it marinates in my soul over the hours, days, and weeks, the more flaws I start to find in it; and finally, the more I'm pressed to continue enhancing it. It essentially turns out that whatever thing a flawed and imperfect, human eye once thought was amazing begins to appear quite wretched. This is why, eternally, God cannot be impressed by mere talents or by mortal achievements. To perfect eyes, I imagine that great is not really that great; rather, humility is ultimately a human being's true greatness."

"Some people are ignorant of the world but educated in Scripture, and are therefore prone to missing the relevance of Scripture - these sometimes, later, amidst life's challenges and doubts, turn from the faith; other people are ignorant of Scripture but educated in the world, and are therefore prone to missing the truth of Scripture - they are often those who ridicule the faith. The apologist stands somewhere in the center. He articulates where some are prone to understanding the truth in beauty, others the beauty in truth - that of a spiritual Creator in relation to his scientific creation."

"The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable, the latter is not."

"Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me."

"It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world."

"Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing."

"The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag."

"Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see."

"Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being."

"It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival."

"The fans are always more radical than that which they are fans."

"Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion."

"I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?"

"Peace is more of an internal settlement rather than what is visible on the external."

"Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction."

"God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?"

"Good intentions but bad results, bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark."

"The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain."

"Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed."