- God speaks to you in your own voice. The devil speaks to you in God's voice.
- Parents feel love preferentially for their children based on obedience, but they show love preferentially to their children based on need.
- Pleasures and suffering serve a similar function. They are temporary situations for our betterment. We err when we attempt to make either a permanent state in which to live.
- Pleasures provide refreshment for short-term encouragement. Suffering provides refinement for long-term endurance.
- As long as you are on earth, there is no way to be completely separated from God.
- This is why hell is technically unimaginable.
- God never compares you to his other children. But he does compare you to your ideal self.
- A person's own tongue is his worst snitch.
- A church that incites to any action purely through fear of judgment produces people that see God as a fearmonger.
- The outward is the weakest of all paradigms.
- Every human is judged by the lowest deed they haven't rectified
- A great thinker does not express certainty about much. Certainty is the asymptote that the curve of diminishing ignorance eternally approaches but never reaches.
- The great secret of intellectuality is that only the most erudite realize how ignorant they were, are, and always will be. So, an ignoramus is easily identifiable by how certain he is that he knows much.
- We now live in a world where not even the religious believe you can live how you morally should.
- The apex of ugly attitudes is entitlement.
- There is no difference between a beautiful spirit and humility.
- A mature person is someone who seeks a relationship with their future self. An immature person is only interested in being in tune with their present self.
- Your inability to admit an opposing viewpoint's possibility will nullify your credibility.
- Perspective is the antidote to vanity.
- You can be unhappy in every imaginable situation.
- Women are a reflection of how men treat them.
- To a godless world, there is no difference between love and romance. To a godly world, there is no difference between love and selflessness.
- Joy without innocence is mere ephemeral happiness.
- Innocence is what contains all the beauty found in happiness.
- The lack of desire to pray is the signal that prayer is most necessary.
- Grief is the receipt for love.
- Thick skin produces a tender heart. Thin skin produces a hardened heart.
- Probably the most commonly used psychological tool that never works is to try to encourage positive change through derisive sarcasm.
- The price of the existence of love is free will. The price of free will is the potential of evil.
- The four most important things about any game, in reverse order, are:
4. to win
3. to play well
2. to have fun
1. to be invited to play again
- In life, you must pay one way or another for pleasure. For wholesome pleasures, you pay before. For flagitious pleasures, you pay after.
- The conscience is the filter through which pleasure runs.
- When a human sees himself properly, humility comes easily.
- Those who spend the most time looking at their outside spend the least time looking at their inside.
- Don't retire from something. Retire to something.
- In the relationship between art and beauty, subtlety is the exponent.
- There are no miracles in heaven.
- Ignorance is the portal to evil.
- There is no confusion among the humble.
- God reacts well to anyone who exhibits humility.
- Humility is a rare enough trait that a mere humble response has the ability to disarm a verbal opponent.
- Lack of wisdom is marked by certainty. Wisdom is marked by calmness.
Quotes
- "The opposite of faith is not doubt; it is certitude." - Israel Galindo
- "An expenditure of words without an income of ideas will lead to conceptual bankruptcy." - Ravi Zacharias
- "God will save you from your enemies but not your friends." - Frank Hampton III
