Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

Faith is not a conclusion you reach...it's a journey you live.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.

Anger flees when the Spirit’s fruit fills our hearts.

Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath.

Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this society.

If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.

Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.

Where I grew up, people obviously knew my dad because it's a small place and he was the top player for Swinton - they'd go and watch him play, see him in the papers, so they knew he was black.

Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.