Ron Brackin

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

If we were able to distill all human experience to its essence, it would be a question on the lips of a man named Jesus. As he asked Peter, he asks all mankind, "Who do you say that I am?" "Our idea of God," observed Thomas Merton, "tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

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

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.

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

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

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

No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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.