Prayer calls me to abandon the present as my only lens on life and commit to look at life from the perspective of reality.

An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.

It's important for nerds to realize, too, that school is not life. School is a strange, artificial thing, half sterile and half feral. It's all-encompassing, like life, but it isn't the real thing. It's only temporary, and if you look, you can see beyond it even while you're still in it.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of the meaning of our life.

We must work the system without allowing the system to corrupt us.

Get in the Word until the Word gets in you. Cast down evil imaginations.

Pruning includes purging the wrong thinking, the negative attitudes, and the wrong people that surround you.

Son, if you think about, read about, and talk about demons, they will show up.

The broader we cast our net, the deeper we wind up owning our own thoughts.

I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know nothing of evil.

Turn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.