“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?”

“Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.”