Ron Brackin Quotes

Confusion and doubt are an important part of faith.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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'S TEXAS GLOSSARY "Peccadello" n. roadkill.

Laws without enforced consequences are merely suggestions.

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.

There is no such thing as a bottomless pit. If it were bottomless, it would not be a pit. The only thing that comes close to being a bottomless pit is the intrinsic depravity of mankind.

Everybody has faith of some kind in one thing or another. Even the atheist has faith that there is no God. And the agnostic has faith in his belief that he is unable to believe.

There's no such thing as great art or poor art. Art is subjective expression. As such, it can be judged only as popular or unpopular. What is banned in Boston may one day receive a million-dollar bid at Christie's. Art has, therefore, no use for critics but frequently finds itself amused by commentators.

In his natural perversion, a man wants to lie with a hooker, wed a virgin, and keep both.

The essence of the Christian life is not attending meetings or even praying and fasting. The essence of the Christian life is looking intently for bits of God in everything and everyone, everyday, so that you see him a little more clearly, everyday, so that he becomes a little more dear to you, everyday. The essence of the Christian life is being unwilling to close your eyes at night until, having seen a little more of him, you have become a little more like him.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The problem with today's culture is that we have too many rights and not enough wrongs.

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

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

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

Save the trees! Return to the gold standard!

Choose your words carefully. The only place you can take back what you said is the Congressional Record.

If it's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game, why keep score?

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

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

We were created with the ability and the inclination to admire beauty. We should, however, do our best not to fall in love with it.

Q. How many docents does it take to change a lightbulb?
A. Two. One to remove the old lightbulb and the other to tell the story behind it.

No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity.

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.

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

Do what you will, but never out of fear.

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm 68 years old, and somebody asked if I'm retired. I told him, No, I'll still be writing long after I'm dead.

The habitual use of profanity is not progressive, just unimaginative.

A curse of being a writer is the compulsion to edit. Take the sign on my walking trail, for example. It reads, 'Watered by well water.' One of these days, no matter how hard I try to resist, I just know I'm going to paint it out to read, 'Irrigated by well water.' If you don't get this, it's because you're not a writer.

SUPPORT LITERACY! A child who cannot read cannot text.

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.

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

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.

Complete honesty is not the same thing as full disclosure.

If women don't like men staring at their chests, they shouldn't write on them.

What I like best about cell phones is that I can talk to myself in the car now and nobody thinks it's weird.

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