It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to blame religion for its own defeats. Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull,...
I believe your image of God creates you—or defeats you. There is an absolute connection between how we see God and how we see ourselves and the universe.
It is not the critic who counts. ... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly ... who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall...
To fail to sing is to give darkness a place in your soul, to wallow in the defeat you're trying to escape.