The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.

Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.

I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'

We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.

There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word - to science, to history, to what reason and our own experience tell us. We do not honor the higher truth we find in Christ by ignoring truths found elsewhere.