Top 35 Ron Brackin Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Laws without enforced consequences are merely suggestions.”

— Ron Brackin

2. “Art – music, painting, sculpture, dance, drama – opens doors to our soul, exposing our lives to whom or what we allow to enter.”

— Ron Brackin

3. “If it’s not whether you win or lose but how you play the game, why keep score?”

— Ron Brackin

4. “Words are wonderfully elastic. They can be mispronounced, misspelled, misused or mistranslated. Even the most precise technical term can be stretched into a verb or adjective, slang or idiom, stretched all the way around until it finds itself facing itself, a mirror image, the exact opposite of itself. Mark my words, it can.”

— Ron Brackin

5. “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.”

— Ron Brackin

6. “Reading book reviews is like asking other people to chew your food for you.”

— Ron Brackin

7. “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.”

— Ron Brackin

8. “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.”

— Ron Brackin

9. “Nothing conquers the chaos around me like the calm assurance that I am at peace with God.”

— Ron Brackin

10. “The right to choose does not mean the choice is right.”

— Ron Brackin

11. “Greed and Lust never say, “Enough!”

— Ron Brackin

12. “The habitual use of profanity is not progressive, just unimaginative.”

— Ron Brackin

13. “That America is an exceptional nation is unclear only to one who has not been taught its true history. It ceases to be exceptional only when its representative leaders cease to be exceptional. America, it has been said, is a nation of laws, not of men. The more it becomes a nation of men, the less it remains America.”

— Ron Brackin

14. “In his natural perversion, a man wants to lie with a hooker, wed a virgin, and keep both.”

— Ron Brackin

15. “Not much has changed in the past 6,000 years. We still hide from God because we know we’re naked.”

— Ron Brackin

16. “America is a post-Christian nation only in the sense that we have built a tenement on the foundation of a palace.”

— Ron Brackin

17. “Gray areas are just the inability to distinguish between darkness and light.”

— Ron Brackin

18. “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.”

— Ron Brackin

19. “When a lady accessorizes in here in Texas, she’s selecting caliber, not color.”

— Ron Brackin

20. “If wool shrinks when you wash it, why don’t sheep get smaller when it rains?”

— Ron Brackin

21. “Courtship is driven by hormones; marriage is sustained by humility and self-sacrifice.”

— Ron Brackin

22. “What I like best about cell phones is that I can talk to myself in the car now and nobody thinks it’s weird.”

— Ron Brackin

23. “Followers of Jesus do well to spend more time engaging him than explaining him.”

— Ron Brackin

24. “Do what you will, but never out of fear.”

— Ron Brackin

25. “Harpies, n. A disease transmitted to humans by birds with human faces.”

— Ron Brackin

26. “One problem with today’s culture is that we defend too many rights and ignore too many wrongs.”

— Ron Brackin

27. “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?”

— Ron Brackin

28. “SUPPORT LITERACY! A child who cannot read cannot text.”

— Ron Brackin

29. “Writers block occurs when a writer has nothing to say. Unfortunately not all writers experience it.”

— Ron Brackin

30. “The essence of the Christian life is not attending meetings or even praying and fasting. The essence of the Christian life is looking intently for bits of God in everything and everyone, everyday, so that you see him a little more clearly, everyday, so that he becomes a little more dear to you, everyday. The essence of the Christian life is being unwilling to close your eyes at night until, having seen a little more of him, you have become a little more like him.”

— Ron Brackin

31. “Patience is not developed by being forced to wait in long lines or for long periods of time. Patience is a decision: to sit back rather than lean forward, to shift your weight from the balls of your feet to your heels. To settle your thoughts on now, to enjoy the journey, to give something or someone time to grow.”

— Ron Brackin

32. “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.”

— Ron Brackin

33. “Capitalism – trade and industry controlled by people instead of a state – is a fine notion. Sadly, it has devolved into a culture in which tradesmen and industrialists lie, cheat, and sacrifice themselves and others for money to buy stuff that doesn’t work, doesn’t last, and doesn’t matter. And after they’re dead, their lives haven’t mattered. Even if they built a city, others will tear it down one day to build a park. Successful capitalists invest themselves in the lives of others.”

— Ron Brackin

34. “Progressive. n. One who is unable to distinguish between novelty and enlightenment.”

— Ron Brackin

35. “The more we thank God, the less we ask of him.”

— Ron Brackin