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

The detached observer's view is one window on the world.

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

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

Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.

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

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.