“Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. ”

“About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.”

“You are using your own moral intuitions to authenticate the wisdom of the Bible - and then, in the next moment, you assert that we human beings cannot possibly rely upon our own intuitions to rightly guide us in the world.”

“A weak spirit which is always open to persuasion, first one way and then the other, can never be relied upon.”

“Christian heroism, and indeed one perhaps sees little enough of that, is to risk unreservedly being oneself, an individual human being, this specific individual human being alone before God, alone in this enormous exertion and this enormous accountability”

“I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do”