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

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

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.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

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.

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.