Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.

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

No one justifies lying, cheating, betraying, promise breaking, devastating and harming strangers. But we expect and we tolerate doing this to the one person in the world we promised most seriously to be faithful to forever: we justify divorce.

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

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

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