"The secret irony pervading these arguments [on objections to the goodness of God] is that they would never have occur…"

"The cross of Christ is not, after all, simply an eternal validation of pain and death, but their overthrow. If all th…"

"There is a sense in which Ivan's love of that little girl [in The Brothers Karamazov] is always in danger of becoming…"

"Christ is a persuasion, a form of evoking desire... Such an account [of Christ] must inevitably make an appeal to bea…"

"Beauty crosses every boundary, traverses every series, and so manifests the God who transcends every division."

"Creation's being is God's pleasure, creation's beauty God's glory; beauty reveals the shining of an uncreated light. …"

"Americans are, of course, the most thoroughly and passively indoctrinated people on earth. They know next to nothing …"

"The final encounter with God, or an encounter with God that would take you beyond doubt, wouldn't have the character …"

"Aye, think! Since time and life began, Your mind has only feared and slept; Of all the beasts they called you man Onl…"

"In the dry places, men begin to dream. Where the rivers run sand, there is something in man that begins to flow. West…"