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.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

All of salvation is to make us look good! We who are dirty, worn, broken, and sinful are to be the showcase of heaven.

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.

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.