Batch Batchelder

Perhaps disenchantment (and the desire for hope) is primarily responsible for the rise in make-believe ideas about how the world works, nonsensical medical interventions and the diminished role of facts in decision making.

When we allow others to manipulate us with their magical stories, though, we’re often setting ourselves up for a collision with ... See more

The problem with success is that it teaches you the wrong lessons. What worked yesterday becomes religion, and religions don’t adapt.

“The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.,... See more

“It little matters where we are if we can pray; but prayer is never more real and acceptable than when it

rises out of the worst places. Deep places beget deep devotion. Depths of earnestness are stirred by

depths of tribulation. The more distressed we are, the more excellent is the faith which trusts bravely in

the Lord, and therefore appeals to him,... See more

“Working on a problem reduces the fear of it.

It’s hard to fear a problem when you are making progress on it—even if progress is imperfect and slow.

Action relieves anxiety.”

Progress only comes from changing how you see the world.

The walls you put up to protect yourself work to imprison you.

The longer you delay that thing you know you should do, the more difficult it gets. The easier thing in the short run is often the harder thing in the long run. Pain today, gain tomorrow.