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

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.

Almost everyone agrees the world is not the way it ought to be. It's called the problem of evil.

Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

the mighty main sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

The moment you realize you are not present, you are present.

But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with.

If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.

No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.

Everything that individuals ever say or write can be used against them at a later point.

Who gets to decide what you want?