For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth.

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism

For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God refuses to insult the true intelligence of man, the '6th sense', the chief quality, the acumen which distinguishes man from the rest of creation, faith.

It takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.

You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.

In the fashion industry, everything goes retro except the prices.