Ron Brackin Quotes

Subjective truth is an oxymoron; objective truth is redundant. Subjective truth is feathers in a wind tunnel, blowing anywhere and everywhere. Objective truth is an anvil, bolted to the floor of the wind tunnel. Subjective truth is your truth and my truth; objective truth is Jesus Christ—immovable, immutable.

~ Ron Brackin

Followers of Jesus do well to spend more time engaging him than explaining him.

~ Ron Brackin

To hear a truth, we must first suspect that our present truth might not be. Like Alice’s White Queen, who often believed six impossible things before breakfast, I believed many things in my life, considering them to be true at any given time but suspecting that they might not be, until I met Jesus Christ. When we encounter The Truth, we know it and can only accept or reject it. Denial is not an option.

~ Ron Brackin

The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how satisfied he is with the attempt.

~ Ron Brackin

Capitalism—trade and industry controlled by people instead of a state—is a fine notion. Sadly, it has devolved into a culture in which tradesmen and industrialists lie, cheat, and sacrifice themselves and others for money to buy stuff that doesn’t work, doesn’t last, and doesn’t matter. And after they’re dead, their lives haven’t mattered. Even if they built a city, others will tear it down one day to build a park. Successful capitalists invest themselves in the lives of others.

~ Ron Brackin

Confusion and doubt are an important part of faith.

~ Ron Brackin

Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.

~ Ron Brackin

One of the difficult things about growing older is that you start losing so many friends. On the other hand, the older you get, the less time you have to wait until you see them again.

~ Ron Brackin

Writing is a solitary occupation, except for Presidential speeches and sitcoms.

~ Ron Brackin

If one man challenges a statement and another cannot prove it, it does not necessarily follow that the statement is false.

~ Ron Brackin

God clues us in to the fact that, As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. In short, God is not logical. This is not to say that he is illogical, only that he is not limited by logic. Simplified, logic is connecting the dots. We identify the dots we consider relevant, then connect them into lines and patterns. God, on the other hand, may see that, beneath one of the dots is a stack of a trillion more dots, each of which may be combined with the others. Little wonder that our ways and meanings frequently fail to match God's ways and meanings. Great wonder that, when they don't, we tend to fault him.

~ Ron Brackin

God cautions us in Isaiah 55:9 that his ways are not ours and his thoughts are higher than our thoughts (undoubtedly one of the grander understatements).God is warning us that he is not logical and that believing him to be logical will lead to all kinds of disappointment.Logic has been defined as 'the science or history of the human mind, as it traces the progress of our knowledge from our first conceptions through their different combinations, and the numerous deductions that result from comparing them with one another.'Doesn't sound much like God. Yet, we so often strain our relatively minuscule brains to conceive, combine, compare, and deduce. Then we fault God when his conclusions disagree.The repetition of this useless exercise leads to a form of insanity which ultimately manifests in denial of the existence of such an illogical God.

~ Ron Brackin

OMG, I think I’ve become a feminist. I mean, I’ve always been in favor of women voting and being paid the same as men for doing the same job. But then, the other day on the train, I didn’t get up and give a woman my seat. I thought about it. But then I thought it might insult her, might imply that I considered her weaker than a senior citizen, maybe even inferior in some way. But that’s not what prompted me to fire up my laptop. I was brushing my teeth this morning and thinking about romance. People do that when they get older, I suppose. Romance is one area where men and women are still different—unisex lavatories and fashions notwithstanding. And here’s the difference: a romantic woman envisions a knight on a white horse; a romantic man envisions a dragon in a dark cave. Think about it next time you brush your teeth.

~ Ron Brackin

I am old enough to enjoy a bit of nostalgia, but wise enough to know that there haven't been any good ol' days since Eden (the garden, not the prime minister).

~ Ron Brackin

When a lady accessorizes in here in Texas, she's selecting caliber, not color.

~ Ron Brackin

If wool shrinks when you wash it, why don't sheep get smaller when it rains?

~ Ron Brackin

The Holy Spirit never uses guilt or shame to persuade us to give. For that matter, he never persuades us to give in the first place. That's called manipulation, a device employed by a different spirit.

~ Ron Brackin

Harpies, n. A disease transmitted to humans by birds with human faces.

~ Ron Brackin

The words 'good' and 'love' have become so trivialized in our culture--not that our definitions were so accurate to begin with--that, in times of distress or disappointment, we struggle to believe that God is either.

~ Ron Brackin

SUPPORT LITERACY! A child who cannot read cannot text.

~ Ron Brackin

When a friend of mine boasted about living in a gated community, I thought he meant Folsom, and I wondered whether he knew Charles Manson.

~ Ron Brackin

In the world, success is measured in terms of legacy, what we leave behind. In God's kingdom, success is measured by what we send on ahead.

~ Ron Brackin

Homeowners' Association: the means whereby people who own homes are able to transfer their rights to the neighborhood control freaks.

~ Ron Brackin