"The itch of disputing will prove the scab of churches."

"There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win."

"Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger—…"

"But we are all victims, Captain Bastable, just as in other ways we are all aggressors. At root we are victims to the comforting lies we tell ourselves, of our willingness to shift moral responsibility…"

"Between God and man there is and remains an eternal, essential, qualitative difference. The paradoxical relationship appears when God appoints a particular man to divine authority, in relation, be it …"