A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.

There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.

Obviously, if Christianity is going to survive as more than a respecter and comforter of profitable inquiries, then Christians, regardless of their organizations, are going to have to interest themselves in economy-which is to say, in nature and in work. They are going to have to give workable answers to those who say we cannot live without this economy that is destroying us and our world, who see the murder of Creation as the only way of life.

It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.

To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.

The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this one except that it is quiet. Its quietness makes it seem perfect. The ripples are like the slates of a blind of a shutter through which we see imperfectly what is perfect. Though that other world can be seen only momentarily, it looks everlasting. As the ripples become more agitated, the window darkens and the other world is hidden.the surface of the river is like a living soul, which is easy to disturb, is often disturbed, but, growing calm, shows what it was, is, and will be.

For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar.