The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

The deepest sins are camouflaged as holiness.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.