Prayer Is The Disciplined Refusal

Worship Does Not Satisfy Our Hunger For God; It Whets Our Appetite.

Classically, There Are Three Ways In Which Humans Try To Find Transcendence--religious Meaning--apart From God As Revealed Through The Cross Of Jesus: Through The Ecstasy Of Alcohol And Drugs, Through The Ecstasy Of Recreational Sex, Through The Ecstasy Of Crowds. Church Leaders Frequently Warn Against The Drugs And The Sex, But At Least, In America, Almost Never Against The Crowds.

Love Is Not A Word That Describes My Feelings; It Is Not A Technique By Which I Fulfill My Needs; It Is Not An Ideal, Abstract And Pure, On Which I Meditate Or Discourse. It Is Acting In Correspondence With Or In Response To God In Relation To Persons.

Wisdom Is The Art Of Living Skillfully In Whatever Actual Conditions We Find Ourselves.

American Culture Is Probably The Least Christian Culture That We've Ever Had Because It Is So Materialistic And It's So Full Of Lies. The Whole Advertising World Is Just, It's Just Intertwined With Lies, Appealing To The Worst Of The Instincts We Have.