Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.

And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.

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Journalism has become a form of idealism. It is no longer, first and foremost, function, craft, service - it is mission.

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.

The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.

Scripture makes it clear that these responses are not forced upon us by the pressures of the situation. What I do comes from inside me. The things that happen to me will influence my responses but never determine them. Rather, these responses flow out of the thoughts and motives of my heart.

Memory (the deliberate act of remembering) is a form of willed creation. It is not an effort to find out the way it really was--that is research. The point is to dwell on the way it appeared and why it appeared in that particular way.

she tackled the problem of trying to decide how she wanted to live and what was valuable to her. When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

some advice about how to keep on with a brain greedy for news nobody could live with in a world happy to provide it.

whether imbued with or struggling against conventional Western views of benighted Africa, their protagonists found the continent to be as empty as that collection plate—a vessel waiting for whatever copper and silver imagination was pleased to place there.