Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Everything in your world is created by what you think.

nowhere is the modern church more worldly than in its breathless idolizing of such modern notions as change, relevance, innovation and being on the right side of history.

The Christianization of the modern world is leading to the modernization of the Christian faith and away from the way of Jesus. Similarly, as we shall see, the Christianization of America has led to the Americanization of the Christian faith and away from the way of Jesus.

We must also and always be discerning about the spirit of the age in any generation, which today means squarely facing the seductions of technique.

As followers of Jesus, we must not duck the enormity of a simple but shattering fact: with relatively few exceptions, such as some branches of Buddhism, almost all the most militantly secularist societies in history have been the product of Christian societies. The church is a leading spawning ground for atheists.