I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
We tend to find what we look for in other people.
Most people are brought to faith in Christ not by argument for it but by exposure to it.
Don't pray to escape trouble. Don't pray to be comfortable in your emotions. Pray to do the will of God in every situation. Nothing else is worth praying for.
Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.
Let us face at the outset how many Christians are not victorious, but defeated. Defeated by circumstances, defeated by other peoples? natures and wrong-doings, defeated by the down-drag of the flesh, defeated by loss, by pain, by suffering, by worry. Instead of saying with confidence, ?This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith?, they have to say in honesty, ?This is the defeat that has been caused by the world, even our self-centeredness. ? That is the opposite of faith. Unbelief is not the opposite of faith; self-centeredness is ? being centered in self rather than in God.
The rise of statism in our time is the natural result of the longing of godless, unchurched people for some kind of protection. When we lose to God we turn to what looks like the next most powerful thing, which is the state. How bad a choice that is, let Germany and Russia in recent years testify.
Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.
Now there is music from which a man can learn something.
I'd hate to be a writer forever and never perform, and I'd hate to perform and not write. I get sad if time has passed and I haven't written or made anything. I'm an artist.
I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.