“Though opposition is a hopeless task, acquiescence would be worse.”

“She felt as though she'd acquiesced in her own rape ...”

“...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. And we are wrong. Our task in the present...is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second.”

“In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.”

“We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken when it doesn't prove up to the task.”

“All the devil asks is acquiescence; not conflict, not struggle. Acquiescence.”