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The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.
— Criss Jami
An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins.
— Criss Jami
The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies.
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The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later.
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It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.
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I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.
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So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived.
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It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence.
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A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.
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Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.
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I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.
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You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone.
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A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.
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There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.
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In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.
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Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.
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Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
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Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.
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Tolerance is not infinite patience, but slain patience; patience that has lost its hope and love and has thrown in the towel.
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A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.
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The devil's happy when the critics run you off.
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One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.
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The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
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Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.
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Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.
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The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.
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When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.
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Christ didn't join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield.
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It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.
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As a kid my heart would break for the villains.
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Self-awareness - the commendable ability to be yourself without being a nuisance to someone else.
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Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.
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Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.
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Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.
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It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.
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A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.
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Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.
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Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.
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Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!
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A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.
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God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.
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When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.
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Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.
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The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.
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The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.
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Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.
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I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.
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What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.
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The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.
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The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.
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If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
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An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.
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The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.
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The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.
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The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.
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You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.
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The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
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There is not one harsher, more sure-fire way to fail than that of the man who tries to be like Jesus without submitting to Jesus.
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Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.
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Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.
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Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else's simply because I know why I said what I said.
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In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression.
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These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.
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The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.
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Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.
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I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.
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Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media.
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The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.
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I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.
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I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist.
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One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.
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