Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.
Don't hang out with people who are:UngratefulUnhelpfulUnrulyUnkindlyUnlovingUnambitiousUnmotivatedor make you feel...Uncomfortable
Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses.
A person who is another man's slave is better than one who is a slave to lust.
Adoration drives obedience, but throughout history people are prone to forget the faithfulness of God yesterday.
The author tells a story wherein a missionary friend of his was invited by unbelievers on a train ride to play cards. The friend declined, saying that he did not bring his hands with him. He explained...
you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrendering to some larger purpose. You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhe...
Being self-owned is a state of mind.
Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.
Even those who know better, such as the King, nurse strange ideas about me as a prophet. They do not understand that I am given to see only those matters that roil the heavens. They expect me to know...
Distraction is reading written word and when I seek to make distraction I write the words I wish to be enveloped in.
