There is no such thing as a "just" war. It's just war. And it's antithetical to the Gospel.

Jesus sets the boundaries of God's will. If it doesn't look like Christ, then it's outside the will of God. Jesus iS the will of God for us.

A person has to ignore the larger social, economic, political, and religious climate of early North American colonialism to advance the Christian nation myth.

There was (and is) nothing palatable about Jesus Christ of Nazareth to those who love the world and have made their home in it.

No, ” Gideon says. “No guns. The most dangerous weapon you have is your brain. Give someone a gun and they tend to quit using it.

A life uncommanded now is uncom-manded a life unenjoyed now is unenjoyed a life not lived wisely now is not lived wisely.

All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.

Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others.

If you really want to be part of something and you have that much passion towards it, you'll know enough to research it and find the history of it; and history is so important, history is everything.

I have never said that people “should” engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.