"Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do."

"An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate."

"God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour."

"The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word."

"The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence."

"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."

"I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin."

"Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them."