02UndatedWe can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we're looking for.Ron Brackin / quote ↗
03UndatedIf it is true, as God says, that we are as we think, we risk becoming what we most fear if our fear is stronger than our love.Ron Brackin / quote ↗
05UndatedWho but the Christian, among the religions of the world and throughout time, worships a God who loves him so much that he died an agonizing and wretched death to pay for his sins?Ron Brackin / quote ↗
06UndatedIt is not sufficient for artistic expressions to serve as "signposts declaring what it is to be fully human." They should impart a vision of what it can be to become divine.Ron Brackin / quote ↗
07UndatedJudging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter.Ron Brackin / quote ↗
08UndatedArt--music, painting, sculpture, dance, drama--opens doors to our soul, exposing our lives to whom or what we allow to enter.Ron Brackin / quote ↗
09UndatedLust is insatiable, whether it feeds on power, wealth, or flesh. It eventually consumes our morality and ultimately consumes our humanity.Ron Brackin / quote ↗
10UndatedIf sex is a skill, with its attendant expectations, frustrations, and failures, you are graded on performance; if it is an expression of love and commitment, you are not graded at all.Ron Brackin / quote ↗
11UndatedMan's strongest instinct is not sex or self-preservation. it's to level the playing field.Ron Brackin / quote ↗
13UndatedWriters block occurs when a writer has nothing to say. Unfortunately not all writers experience it.Ron Brackin / quote ↗
14UndatedAn individual who delights at all in the beauty of language does well to avoid becoming an attorney or a legislator.Ron Brackin / quote ↗
16UndatedFaith is such a wonderful thing. Without it, we would be panicky when we feel like we're standing alone and when the things we need and yearn for seem to be beyond our reach.Ron Brackin / quote ↗
17UndatedForgiveness is the virtue of the courageous, the response of the forgiven, the mercy of the just.Ron Brackin / quote ↗
18UndatedIf we were able to distill all human experience to its essence, it would be a question on the lips of a man named Jesus. As he asked Peter, he asks all mankind, "Who do you say that I am?" "Our idea of God," observed Thomas Merton, "tells us more about ourselves than about Him.Ron Brackin / quote ↗
19UndatedGray areas are just the inability to distinguish between darkness and light.Ron Brackin / quote ↗
20UndatedOne problem with today's culture is that we defend too many rights and ignore too many wrongs.Ron Brackin / quote ↗
21UndatedMankind's first sin gave us the ability to know both good and evil. Our subsequent sins make us increasingly unable to tell the difference.Ron Brackin / quote ↗
22UndatedThat America is an exceptional nation is unclear only to one who has not been taught its true history. It ceases to be exceptional only when its representative leaders cease to be exceptional. America, it has been said, is a nation of laws, not of men. The more it becomes a nation of men, the less it remains America.Ron Brackin / quote ↗
24UndatedOne difference between the Bible and the Constitution is that we can still talk to the author of the Bible to discover original intent.Ron Brackin / quote ↗
