If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.

Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.

The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.

It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias.

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.

When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.

There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.

The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

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.

A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the theist believes a 'who' created the universe.

Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.

When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.

People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most.

I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist.

The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.

Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.

There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.

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.

When you find that a theology has nothing more to offer than what the world already offers, then that theology as a theology is impractical, and therefore, useless.

God tests, but he does not tempt.

Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!

Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.

Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal.

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.

Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever.

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

All things remarkable are surprisingly simple; albeit difficult to find.

As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?

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.

It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.

It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

Old words are reborn with new faces.

No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles.

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

All knowledge meets an end at the question '...Why?

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.

Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of meAnd it starts from the heart until it reaches my outer me

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in-To places few others who even do take the risk've ever been

There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.

I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.

The devil's happy when the critics run you off.

Respect? Of course, always, to all, because everything seems funnier when you're trying to show respect.

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.

If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement.

Through Christ, the sting of death is but a gentle pinch to the soul; and the mourn is light. Perhaps, someday, in that glorious place, free of sin, we shall meet again.

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.

May all your tears from grief water the flowers of hope, as though the more the tears, the more the flowers'll grow.

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.

In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.

When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.

These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.

You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.

Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care.

Have nuts and be nuts.

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.

If I knew what to doI'd do more than write a song for you

The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.

Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.

Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.

When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.

I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.

Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.

In some cases, trying is better than doing because it indicates that you are attempting things hard enough to fail.

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

If you don't like the solution, change the problem.

I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.

If the philosopher is but a lover of wisdom, then philosophy is like a love letter for future generations.