If we were able to distill all human experience to its essence, it would be a question on the lips of a man named Jesus. As he asked Peter, he asks all mankind, "Who do you say that I am?" "Our idea of God," observed Thomas Merton, "tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

— Ron Brackin

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

— Ron Brackin

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.

— Ron Brackin

Is there anything God cannot do? Yes. God cannot learn, because he already knows everything and never learned what he knows. He cannot lie, because he is truth. God cannot reject anyone who has accepted his Son. Whether you accept or reject God, he cannot love you more, he cannot love you less, and he cannot stop loving you with all his heart. What a wonderful, limited God!

— Ron Brackin

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.

— Ron Brackin

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

— Ron Brackin

Lest we lay too heavy a criticism against any government administration--local, state, or federal--we are reminded that American government is representational. Political leaders reflect the people who elect them (as well as those who fail in this civic responsibility) as a mirror reflects those who gaze into it.

— Ron Brackin

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

— Ron Brackin

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.

— Ron Brackin

Man's strongest instinct is not sex or self-preservation. It's to level the playing field.

— Ron Brackin