“Few Christian thinkers have so well understood [as Luther] the abyss of despair that is the alternative to the utterly gratuitous love of God in Christ.”

Richard John Neuhaus in First Things January 2004

Employee: “Sorry about missing that meeting, sir. You must think I’m a complete idiot.”

Boss: “No, of course I don’t. You’re much too lazy to complete anything.”

"Real Life Adventures" cartoon in Montreal Gazette July 9, 2002

“Only miracle is plain; it is the ordinary that groans with the unutterable weight of glory.”

Robert Farrar Capon The Supper of the Lamb

“your father, who was as sensible as he was wise – and the two things do not always go together…”

Jethro (to Chebron) in G.A. Henty Cat of Bubastes

“On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of victory, sat down to rest and, resting, died.”

An unidentified poet, cited in Lewis K. Uhler Setting Limits: Constitutional Control of Government

“the religious worldview conforms to the most successful plot device ever conceived – namely, a happy ending that blossoms from difficulties necessarily confronted and overcome.”

Huston Smith Why Religion Matters

“[T]o be praised by fools, that is the real dishonour.”

A “Buddhist saying” according to a letter from Judy Girard of Ottawa in Ottawa Citizen July 27, 2004

“men who are called practical; and the much more practical pertinacity of the man who is called theoretical.”

G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas: “The Dumb Ox”