“Christians should be cultural and intellectual thermostats, exulting in opposition, iconoclasm,and balancing insights.”

“Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it true' a description that strikes me as stunning and quite exact.”

“we all make assumptions about the world—based on individual experience and cultural background—that affect our judgment of how that balance should look”

“The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles o popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.”

“The Christian is in the world, but not to be of it. This constitutes the basis of the perennial problem involved in the discussion of Christian culture. Because believers are not of the world, there have been many Christians who have taken a negative attitude toward culture.”

“What I'm searching for is the opposite of an intellectual, in other words, someone intelligent.”