“A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.”

“It is imperative that the past of the pilgrims' progress be intentionally carried forward into the present as we work into our future. Without it we cannot know who we are, why we are here, or where we can go. Without a common past to live out of we become aimless and wandering individuals instead of a pilgrim people.”

“Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.”

“We must fight their falsehood with our truth, but we must also fight the falsehood in our truth.”

“Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.”

“Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.”

“There are no truer choices than those made in crisis, choices made without judgment.”