“Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.”
“A learned man who doesn’t restrain his passions is like a blind man holding a torch, he guides others but not himself.”
“Food-- like sex, politics, and religion-- is an intensely personal, emotional, and complicated subject.”
“The Protestant Reformation did not merely seek to cleanse the church and deliver it from doctrinal errors, but it also sought the restoration of the whole of life.”
“Ever hold your hand over a torch (sorry, a flashlight for you Americans).”
“It is compromise that prevents each set of reformers from crushing the group at the other end of the political spectrum.”