You cannot defect form an insight. You cannot unsee what you have seen.
How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering?
God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?
The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
You don't fall in love. You commit to it.
Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.
If someone says there's a portal to hell under some rocks, you bet your ass I'm going to move them.
I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.
We have the self-evident right to regulate our trade according to our own will and our own interest. . . . This right can be denied to no independent nation.