- I doubt that there is any leadership that does not lead by example. But a leader who leads by example can lead through other means as well.
- A society that does not laugh is dreary indeed.
- It is usually silly to decide against a good deed because it is awkward.
- How easy it is to lose sight of the roots while in the midst of the branches.
- Sad stories are often profound. But the most profound stories are certainly happy.
- Distinguishing between Truth and the preferences of our personality type is no easy task.
- A truth that comforts one man convicts another.
- Ah as in apple, puh as in puzzle, and them as in anthem. AH-puh-them. Apothegm.
- A wisdom that rejects earnestness is suspiciously close to passivity justifying itself.
- The Christianity of the systematic theologian has a different texture than that of the scholar, or that of the counselor. Yet they are united! What a wondrous mystery.
- If morality is whatever an individual decides it is, then justice becomes whatever the strongest entity says it is.
- I enjoy clarity because lack of clarity is so common.
- Truly, Calvin said it rightly. Almost all Knowledge consists of two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Man.
- Epiphanies are not contained in a book, but in a sentence.
- Virtue means bringing the abstract notions of Wisdom, Kindness, Diligence or Temperance into the concrete reality of Daily Life.
- We live life together, and we live life individually. But for those in Christ, we are never alone.
- There is no wisdom without knowledge, and there is no wisdom without virtue.
- Wisdom speaks honestly and love seeks to increase joy. We are to lack neither wisdom nor love.
- In an age of Denethors, we strive to be Faramir.
- The admirable man has three goals, in ascending order of importance. Be a man who would bring the world into Love. Be a man who would bring his children into Love. Be a man who would bring his wife into Love.
- If our closest relationships are rife with discord, then is it any comfort that our acquaintances are pleasant?
- A life that has become only writing about life can forget what life is.
- Intellectuals who talk all day long but do not act on their ideas: I have no patience for you, hypocrites! Yet, I am also a hypocrite…
- The wise Nick Whitesides said, “Memes are our generation’s political cartoons.”
- If you worry about what others think of you, you will fear men rather than God. If you ignore what others think of you, you will never see yourself.
- Where can Knowledge be sure? Where can I build a hope? Where can I find a firm ground? Where can I lay my head to rest? In the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
- The idea behind the word “Love” seems deeper than the idea behind “Virtue.”
- The leader without peace in his soul will form a community without peace in its soul.
- This is a hideous lie that awakens an eternal battle cry from my heart: The most wise are the most resigned to despair.
- These words are not written as disconnected sayings. They all spring from one way of seeing the world, and this Way is what I am trying to convey.
- It seems to me that the more desperately a piece of art tells you that it has no meaning, the more it begins to obviously have meaning.
Thoughts of a Novice 