God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.

Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.

If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.