One must endure without losing tenderness.
Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives
Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.
The love of freedom is actually an aberration.
Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.
It is scary to live in the Obama era with its use of government to suppress dissent
The United States is the single greatest force for good in the world
Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
Give me one hundred men who love only God with all their heart and hate only sin with all their heart and we will shake the gates of hell and bring in the kingdom of God in one generation.
When you are in your heart, nothing needs to be done to bring change. . . It will happen automatically and with grace.
Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to get himself shot.