A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

Humility and brokenness before God is the key to making your body the dwelling place of God

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

I tend to take negative comments to heart.

That's almost the best part, making the record cover.

I think I'm an abstinence symbol. If I take my shirt off, people will not have babies.

God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which they had never the opportunity of performing.

Don't over analyze your relationships.

The best part was the food. There are some great Italian restaurants we go to whenever we are in Toronto, so the eating was a definite highlight.

I've learned that no matter what I do, people are going to have their opinions.

I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.