Top 74 Ron Brackin Quotes
#1. SUPPORT LITERACY! A child who cannot read cannot text.
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#2. You know how we sometimes sigh, "Well, that was a waste of time."? Or we snap at somebody: "You're wasting my time!" What does that even mean in the age of texts and tweets, TV and video games?
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#3. If one man challenges a statement and another cannot prove it, it does not necessarily follow that the statement is false.
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#4. Re: Full Disclosure
Sharing with parents all the ways we tricked them as a child is no more amusing to them when we are in our fifties than it would have been had they caught us in the act.
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#5. The Holy Spirit never uses guilt or shame to persuade us to give. For that matter, he never persuades us to give in the first place. That's called manipulation, a device employed by a different spirit.
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#6. I am old enough to enjoy a bit of nostalgia, but wise enough to know that there haven't been any "good ol' days" since Eden (the garden, not the prime minister).
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#7. The massive doors of Area 51 closed behind him, echoing like iron thunder. Carl stood for a moment, inhaling the hot desert air, wondering whether to tell the world the wonders he had seen, and, if so, how. Amazing things. Other-worldly things. Also a set of car keys. And one brown sock.
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#8. Harpies, n. A disease transmitted to humans by birds with human faces.
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#9. When a lady accessorizes in here in Texas, she's selecting caliber, not color.
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#10. Homeowners' Association: the means whereby people who own homes are able to transfer their rights to the neighborhood control freaks.
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#11. 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.
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#12. 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.
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#13. Confusion and doubt are an important part of faith.
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#14. I read the writings of great men and women so that I can think bigger thoughts.
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#15. Writing a NYT bestseller was a delightful experience. But there are many books which are read by few that should be read and reread by many, as well as books bought by many that are hardly worth the ink.
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#16. 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.
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#17. 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.
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#18. Science can neither prove nor disprove Scripture; it can hope only to begin to understand it.
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#19. Gray areas are just the inability to distinguish between darkness and light.
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#20. I don't object to the proliferation of the 'f-bomb' in screenplays because the adjective is vulgar but because it is unimaginative.
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#21. One difference between the Bible and the Constitution is that we can still talk to the author of the Bible to discover original intent.
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#22. One problem with today's culture is that we defend too many rights and ignore too many wrongs.
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#23. We praise God, not because he needs our praise (for all glory resides in and on him), but in order to see him more clearly, enlarge our soul, and relieve our spirit.
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#24. Complete honesty is not the same thing as full disclosure.
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#25. Many who have found Jesus Christ wanting in time of need have God confused with a genii.
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#26. I'd rather be frequently quoted than widely published.
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#27. An individual who delights at all in the beauty of language does well to avoid becoming an attorney or a legislator.
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#28. What I like best about cell phones is that I can talk to myself in the car now and nobody thinks it's weird.
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#29. Followers of Jesus do well to spend more time engaging him than explaining him.
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#30. Man's strongest instinct is not sex or self-preservation. it's to level the playing field.
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#31. Lust is insatiable, whether it feeds on power, wealth, or flesh. It eventually consumes our morality and ultimately consumes our humanity.
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#32. The words 'good' and 'love' have become so trivialized in our culture
not that our definitions were so accurate to begin with
that, in times of distress or disappointment, we struggle to believe that God is either.
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#33. Writing is a solitary occupation, except for Presidential speeches and sitcoms.
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#34. There's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is popular or unpopular. What is banned in Boston may be bid on at Christie's.
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#35. Not much has changed in the past 6,000 years. We still hide from God because we know we're naked.
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#36. Forgiveness is the virtue of the courageous, the response of the forgiven, the mercy of the just.
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#37. Mankind's first sin gave us the ability to know both good and evil. Our subsequent sins make us increasingly unable to tell the difference.
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#38. America indeed has become a progressive nation, if we understand "progressive" to mean progressing away from God, his incomparable blessings, and the moral foundation that made America great, and advancing toward a mythical utopia where mankind is in control of mankind (think "Lord of the Flies").
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#39. RON BRACKIN'S TEXAS GLOSSARY "Peccadello" n. roadkill.
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#40. Laws without enforced consequences are merely suggestions.
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#41. In his natural perversion, a man wants to lie with a hooker, wed a virgin, and keep both.
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#42. 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.
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#43. Progressive. n. One who is unable to distinguish between novelty and enlightenment.
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#44. Save the trees! Return to the gold standard!
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#45. If women don't like men staring at their chests, they shouldn't write on them.
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#46. While many people are proud of being self-made, it only explains all the flaws.
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#47. The problem with today's culture is that we have too many rights and not enough wrongs.
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#48. 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.
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#49. If it's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game, why keep score?
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#50. The nature of a true seeker after beauty is to overlook flaws.
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#51. 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.
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#52. Nothing conquers the chaos around me like the calm assurance that I am at peace with God.
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#53. 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.
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#54. The right to choose does not mean the choice is right.
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#55. Reading book reviews is like asking other people to chew your food for you.
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#56. If wool shrinks when you wash it, why don't sheep get smaller when it rains?
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#57. The more we thank God, the less we ask of him.
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#58. When God asks a question, it is always rhetorical.
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#59. 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.
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#60. The habitual use of profanity is not progressive, just unimaginative.
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#61. Courtship is driven by hormones; marriage is sustained by humility and self-sacrifice.
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#62. 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.
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#63. America is a post-Christian nation only in the sense that we have built a tenement on the foundation of a palace.
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#64. Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter.
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#65. 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.
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#66. 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.
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#67. 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.
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#68. Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.
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#69. Do what you will, but never out of fear.
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#70. 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.
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#71. Choose your words carefully. The only place you can take back what you said is the Congressional Record.
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#72. No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity.
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#73. 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.
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#74. Who but the Christian, among the religions of the world and throughout time, worships a God who loves him so much that he died an agonizing and wretched death to pay for his sins?
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