Ron Brackin Quotes

When God asks a question, it is always rhetorical.

~ Ron Brackin

We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we're looking for.

~ Ron Brackin

If it is true, as God says, that we are as we think, we risk becoming what we most fear if our fear is stronger than our love.

~ Ron Brackin

The nature of a true seeker after beauty is to overlook flaws.

~ Ron Brackin

Who but the Christian, among the religions of the world and throughout time, worships a God who loves him so much that he died an agonizing and wretched death to pay for his sins?

~ Ron Brackin

It is not sufficient for artistic expressions to serve as signposts declaring what it is to be fully human. They should impart a vision of what it can be to become divine.

~ Ron Brackin

Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter.

~ Ron Brackin

Art--music, painting, sculpture, dance, drama--opens doors to our soul, exposing our lives to whom or what we allow to enter.

~ Ron Brackin

Lust is insatiable, whether it feeds on power, wealth, or flesh. It eventually consumes our morality and ultimately consumes our humanity.

~ Ron Brackin

If sex is a skill, with its attendant expectations, frustrations, and failures, you are graded on performance; if it is an expression of love and commitment, you are not graded at all.

~ Ron Brackin

Man's strongest instinct is not sex or self-preservation. it's to level the playing field.

~ Ron Brackin

No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity.

~ Ron Brackin

Writers block occurs when a writer has nothing to say. Unfortunately not all writers experience it.

~ Ron Brackin

An individual who delights at all in the beauty of language does well to avoid becoming an attorney or a legislator.

~ Ron Brackin

The more we thank God, the less we ask of him.

~ Ron Brackin

Faith is such a wonderful thing. Without it, we would be panicky when we feel like we're standing alone and when the things we need and yearn for seem to be beyond our reach.

~ Ron Brackin

Forgiveness is the virtue of the courageous, the response of the forgiven, the mercy of the just.

~ Ron Brackin

Gray areas are just the inability to distinguish between darkness and light.

~ Ron Brackin

One problem with today's culture is that we defend too many rights and ignore too many wrongs.

~ Ron Brackin

Mankind's first sin gave us the ability to know both good and evil. Our subsequent sins make us increasingly unable to tell the difference.

~ Ron Brackin

That America is an exceptional nation is unclear only to one who has not been taught its true history. It ceases to be exceptional only when its representative leaders cease to be exceptional. America, it has been said, is a nation of laws, not of men. The more it becomes a nation of men, the less it remains America.

~ Ron Brackin

Complete honesty is not the same thing as full disclosure.

~ Ron Brackin

One difference between the Bible and the Constitution is that we can still talk to the author of the Bible to discover original intent.

~ Ron Brackin

We praise God, not because he needs our praise (for all glory resides in and on him), but in order to see him more clearly, enlarge our soul, and relieve our spirit.

~ Ron Brackin

Lest we lay too heavy a criticism against any government administration--local, state, or federal--we are reminded that American government is representational. Political leaders reflect the people who elect them (as well as those who fail in this civic responsibility) as a mirror reflects those who gaze into it.

~ Ron Brackin

Do what you will, but never out of fear.

~ Ron Brackin

Not much has changed in the past 6,000 years. We still hide from God because we know we're naked.

~ Ron Brackin

Science can neither prove nor disprove Scripture, it can hope only to begin to understand it.

~ Ron Brackin

Courtship is driven by hormones, marriage is sustained by humility and self-sacrifice.

~ Ron Brackin

Greed and Lust never say, Enough!

~ Ron Brackin

The right to choose does not mean the choice is right.

~ Ron Brackin

While many people are proud of being self-made, it only explains all the flaws.

~ Ron Brackin

Is there anything God cannot do?Yes.God cannot learn, because he already knows everything and never learned what he knows.He cannot lie, because he is truth. God cannot reject anyone who has accepted his Son.Whether you accept or reject God, he cannot love you more, he cannot love you less, and he cannot stop loving you with all his heart.What a wonderful, limited God!

~ Ron Brackin

America is a post-Christian nation only in the sense that we have built a tenement on the foundation of a palace.

~ Ron Brackin

Patience is not developed by being forced to wait in long lines or for long periods of time. Patience is a decision: to sit back rather than lean forward, to shift your weight from the balls of your feet to your heels. To settle your thoughts on now, to enjoy the journey, to give something or someone time to grow.

~ Ron Brackin

Nothing conquers the chaos around me like the calm assurance that I am at peace with God.

~ Ron Brackin

Eyes are wonderful! Revelation is more wonderful! Eyes deceive you, revelation does not. Eyes evaluate, revelation is certain. God gives everyone eyes, revelation is reserved for those who pursue him for it.

~ Ron Brackin

Progressive. n. One who is unable to distinguish between novelty and enlightenment.

~ Ron Brackin

People are fond of saying this or that changed my life. What they mean is something influenced their life. Only Jesus Christ--or WITSEC--can really change a life.

~ Ron Brackin

Many who have found Jesus Christ wanting in time of need have God confused with a genii.

~ Ron Brackin