Reality has a way of injuring people who don't take it seriously. If you don't believe in gravity, for example, and then step off a tall building, you won't just float away.

Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.

If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate.

Wisdom is an artful method—a skillful, tactical, fair, and diplomatic use of knowledge.

We want to be on the offensive without being offensive.

Our value is built into us, and nothing and no one can take it away.

An alternate explanation is not a refutation.

I want people to see that Christianity claims to be true in the deep sense, and if it isn't, then it solves nothing at all.

Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him.

Trouble, hardship, difficulty, pain, suffering, conflict, tragedy, evil - they're all part of the [Christian] Story. Indeed, the problem of evil is the reason there's any Story at all.

Man had freedom to choose the good, but this same freedom also allowed him to choose the bad. This is called moral freedom.

Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity.

Don’t spend your time or money on being boring.

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

Encourage innocent amusement.

Oh ye of little faith. Not for IYD... But you didn't even try.

What [software] must not do is not the inverse of what it must do. .

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.