“The world is ancient, but it has not lost its newness.”

“The New Testament’s vision of Christian behavior has to do, not with struggling to keep a bunch of ancient and apparently arbitrary rules, nor with “going with the flow” or “doing what comes naturally”, but with the learning of the language, in the present, which will equip us to speak it fluently in God’s new world.”

“There was a mysterious chasm between this island and the greater world, just like there was between old and young, ancient and new.”

“Rising from the debris of our lost values is the new value on the individual. The me generation has given to a me world. The question is, how will the church, the ultimate we organization adjust?”

“There has to be new words to explain new worlds.”

“Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.”