Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it.

Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

As far as design theorists are concerned, theistic evolution is American evangelicalism's ill-conceived accommodation to Darwinism .

The world is a mirror representing the divine life.

Any view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient.

Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.

Design theorists are no friends of theistic evolution.

In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.

One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.

Mother, what is a Feminist?""A feminist, my daughter, Is any woman now who caresTo think about her own affairsAs men don't think she oughter.

The smell of roasting meat rose from the street stalls in a sizzle and a fiddle player begged for coin as he rasped a haunting melody. Life could not be more perfect.

The human feelings, which had never been very deep in him, grew shallower every hour, and every day something more dropped away from the decrepit wreck.

When something is tragic you never really forget it.

We Virginians do not go to the storied shrines of the past to do worship but rather to gain inspiration.

His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demonstrated.

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

In my life and career I want to embrace ageing because I think that's what's interesting.

Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow.