Mystery is the lifeblood of dogmatics.

God the Father has reconciled His created but fallen world through the death of His Son, and renews it into a Kingdom of God by His Spirit.

Gratitude & joy drove them to do good works before the thought that they had to do them even crossed their mind.

One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted

God saves by causing himself to be known and enjoyed in Christ.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

The world will never know you because you did not drain all your potentials to the last drop

He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.

What we did in Iraq was exactly the right thing to do. If I had it to recommend all over again, I would recommend exactly the same course of action.

I don't mind being the brunt of a joke, so long as it's a good one.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society. ... There is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.

Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment; and perhaps just such a goal has served as maladjustment's weapon.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

Big doors swing on little hinges.