All the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are.

The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters human nature, whereas the state merely restrains human greed and evil, having no positive power to alter human motivation.

If there is no ultimate reality, it's pointless to think about how we might get there.

The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.

Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain.

Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too great to take in properly.

The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.