“Everybody knows, but many deny, that eating red meat gives one character. Strength, stamina, stick-to-it-iveness, constitution, not to mention a healthful, glowing pelt. But take a seat for a second. Listen. I eat salad. How’s that for a punch in the nuts, ladies? What’s more, as I sit typing this on a Santa Fe patio, I just now ate a bowl of oatmeal. That’s right. Because I’m a real human animal, not a television character. You see, despite the beautifully Ron Swanson–like notion that one should exist solely on beef, pork, and wild game, the reality remains that our bodies need more varied foodstuffs that facilitate health and digestive functions, but you don’t have to like it. I eat a bunch of spinach, but only to clean out my pipes to make room for more ribs, fool! I will submit to fruit and zucchini, yes, with gusto, so that my steak-eating machine will continue to masticate delicious charred flesh at an optimal running speed. By consuming kale, I am buying myself bonus years of life, during which I can eat a shit-ton more delicious meat. You don’t put oil in your truck because it tastes good. You do it so your truck can continue burning sweet gasoline and hauling a manly payload.”
― Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Principles for Delicious Living
― Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Principles for Delicious Living
“Opinions are preferences amid options. Convictions are woven into one’s conscience.”
― Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend
― Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend
“We are fashioned by God to be thinking and emotional creatures. The emotions should follow reason, and not the other way around.”
― Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend
― Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend
“is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls. ”
― Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
― Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
“Sanctification is about living in ways that are consistent with what we already are in Christ.”
― God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World
― God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World
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