“Real is better, The truth is better. Painful but better.”
“Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.”
“Pain was better than anxiety any day of the week and sweat was better than depression.”
“Becoming a better writer is going to help you become a better reader, and that is the real payoff.”
“Without repentance, there is no real progress or improvement in life. Pretending there is no sin does not lessen its burden and pain. Suffering for sin does not by itself change anything for the better. Only repentance leads to the sunlit uplands ofa better life.”
“The real scholar must choose truth and somehow it is better if it is made so ugly that nobody could doubt its virginity.”