We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.

We can and should investigate and learn from the wisdom in other religions.

Sin has made us stupid, so that we can only learn the hard way.

The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of God is really the love of God experienced by a fool.

Subtract miracles from Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or Toaism, and you have essentially the same religion left. Subtract miracles from Christianity, and you have nothing but the cliches and platitudes most American Christians get weekly (and weakly) from their pulpits.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

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.