Almost everyone agrees the world is not the way it ought to be. It's called the problem of evil.

Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.

If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate.

Wisdom is an artful method—a skillful, tactical, fair, and diplomatic use of knowledge.

We want to be on the offensive without being offensive.

Our value is built into us, and nothing and no one can take it away.

An alternate explanation is not a refutation.

I want people to see that Christianity claims to be true in the deep sense, and if it isn't, then it solves nothing at all.

Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him.

Trouble, hardship, difficulty, pain, suffering, conflict, tragedy, evil - they're all part of the [Christian] Story. Indeed, the problem of evil is the reason there's any Story at all.

Man had freedom to choose the good, but this same freedom also allowed him to choose the bad. This is called moral freedom.

Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.

When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

My parents were really nice to me.

Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.

It's almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors.

Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.

My father moved through theys of we, singing each new leaf out of each tree, (and every child was sure that spring danced when she heard my father sing).

Proceed calmly in life.

I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms.