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It should not be possible for Christians to be disillusioned. We should have no illusions in the first place. Our faith is in Jesus Christ alone.
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.
— Mike Birbiglia
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
— Charles Horton Cooley
Abject fear of pagan gods is little different from abject worship of them.
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Life can be all too brief.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott notes that one of the signs of being cold today is that one knows what one doesn't have to know.
— Joseph Epstein
If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!
— Michael Stipe
There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.
— Vincent De Paul
Misunderstanding literary form can result in misunderstanding Scripture.
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
The priesthood of all believers did not make everyone into church workers; rather, it turned every kind of work into a sacred calling.
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Christians should be cultural and intellectual thermostats, exulting in opposition, iconoclasm,and balancing insights.
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Propositions are true or false. Images are not.
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Luther says that vocations are a mask from God. That is, God hides Himself in the workplace, the family, the Church, and the seemingly secular society
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
As Emerson observes, "The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry."4
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Original Sin has great marketing potential.
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
The word obscene can be thought of as meaning "out of the scene" or "offstage."7
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Psychology either tends to glorify human beings or trivialize them, leaving out the complexity of the human soul and the demands of God.
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Reading can break us out of the tunnel vision of the narrow specialty and lead us into many intriguing and important avenues of thought.
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Our age in its honest moments admits its lostness.
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
— Ron Paul
Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
He is not actually far from each one of us, for 'in him we live and move and have our being'" (Acts 17:25, 27-28).
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Realizing that one does not have to worry about what will happen, that the future is in God's hands, is liberating.
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
What Darwin did to nature, Sigmund Freud did to the self.
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
With success comes unhelpful criticism - ignore it.
— Suze Orman
Yoga doesn't ask you to be more than you are. But it does ask you to be all that you are.
— Bryan Kest
We all only have 1440 minutes a day. Accept you can't do it all, focus on what's important and do that well.
— Eric Barker
Universal literacy, taken for granted today, was a direct result of the Reformation's reemphasis upon the centrality of Bible reading,
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Those who attempt to evangelize the culture by imitating its forms must beware lest the culture evangelize them.
— Gene Veith
The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
— Andrew Jackson
Those who think all religions are the same look at the wrappings instead of the content.
— Gene Veith