It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

If you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly that the conventional language is pretty much useless. It takes a long time to get past that, or it has taken me a long time. People in conventional Christianity have spoken lightly and sometimes frivolously of God for a long time. It's a word that needs to be used sparingly, in my opinion.

A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.

We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality involved in discharging untested chemicals into the air, ground, and water to alter and harm, to whatever degree, human life and wildlife? As a conservative, I do abhor it.

If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.

We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.

Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare.