There is nothing you can to do make God love you more! There is nothing you can do to make God love you less! His love is Unconditional, Impartial, Everlasting, Infinite, Perfect!
I was raised that emotion was a good thing.
We need to break boundaries, so every time I feel like, "Oh snap, oh my God, I don't know how this is gonna be received," I also feel this validation, like, "All the greats, all my favorites have felt this. "
Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.
Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.
I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.
The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.
If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.
I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.
I think it is really, really important that those of us who have deep faith lives don't feel that we could just substitute our own views for everybody else in society, regardless of their views.
Elites are inevitable in politics. That is how politics is going to work. The question is, are your elites responsible, public-spirited? Do they think about the interests of others, not just themselves? And the story of Western politics since the beginning of the century is that as elites become more separated, more selfish, as they leave behind their populations and don't think about them, they become discredited. And the people look for alternatives. But the alternative is worse. Those rules of the game protect us all. And they are more precious than almost any political outcome.