[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’

Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve

It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.

Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?

Those who think they know it ALL don't know what they are missing!

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

We can receive Jesus Christ when we believe in His message and trust in Him alone to save us.

Sure I'm cut but not for the sake of vanity.

Death is what makes life an event.

One of Alaska's strengths is our pioneer role in environmentally sensitive development.

I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.

My hours are peaceful centuries.