Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.
Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.
Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.
To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.
Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
In God's eyes, there's not before and after. Every moment of time is simultaneous to God.
Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.
