I think that secular liberals need to recognize that they are still, often, hanging their worldview on what are metaphysical ideas.

It's not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism.

I do think that evangelicals in general need to think seriously about how you pass on your faith across generations and over the long haul.

The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics.

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.

Even secular people can't really escape from the need to rest their ideas on some belief, some sort of commitment that is not scientific commitment.

Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over one's head. Mine was First Things.

The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways.

I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.

Every Christian in every time and place is going to be tempted by certain forms of heresy. I'm sure I'm tempted by my own.

The fact that institutional churches have gone into decline doesn't mean that we're going to enter some purely secular age. Secular people need to be aware of that.

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

We cannot live side by side with obviously distressed people unless they are to blame and we are innocent. Nothing inside them or the way they live can be allowed to disturb our lives.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

There's a balance between what you want to give the world and what it needs. If you're lucky, your work is in the middle.

If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.

If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.

All things move on, good and bad. Never get too high or too low.

[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.