“Democracy is a brawl settled in advance by counting heads.”

“The rich man cannot enter the kingdom of heaven because he is already there.”

“A little toxin is the best tonic.”

“Infants have their infancy; adults, adultery.”

“Of course, men often 'use their economic superiority to gain sexual advantages,' but women often use their sexual superiority to gain economic advantages. So who is the extortionist?”

“Dr. Murray points to the Nazarite system as what he calls an external scaffolding supporting human efforts at righteousness, reminding the participant that he is set apart. Christ, he said, needed no external reminder that the Father was His joy and that wine was not, that He was Life and was wholly Other from death, that He bore on Himself the shame that long hair but vaguely pointed to.”

“In the world of most living things, neediness isn't especially attractive; wealthiness is.”