We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.

History is a means of access to ourselves.

If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.

Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.

The end for which Christ lives, and for which He has left His church in the world, is the salvation of sinners.

Why don't I just step out and slip into something more spectacular?

Styles be fat like Jackie Gleason, the rest be Art Carney.

When i change what i see, i change what i feel

You can enjoy encouragement coming from outside, but you cannot need for it to come from outside.

The point is that in any country, including the United States, may be in the United States even more often than in any other country, foreign policy is used for internal political struggle.

I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.