Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
I have one friend that I've had since I was born and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.
The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media.
Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center in order to replace it for example with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.
He who is not impressed by sound advice lacks faith.
Blind faith no matter how passionately expressed will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.