Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.

Stories are equipment for living.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

The truth is, Everyone was taken before, What hurts is that, sometimes they are imprisoned with their past.

Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.

It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.

But camels, though odious to view and endowed with the offensive spirit, did not enjoy the blessing of pachydermaty.

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

If cleanliness is next to godliness, surely our cats must go to heaven and sit on the arm of God's throne.

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Arnold was a dog's dog. Whenever he shuffled along walks and through alleyways, he always gave the impression of being on to something big.

our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.