“Some people claim we have a Christian heritage in America that needs restoring, but such a claim is debatable and is not well supported by the evidence. We have no biblical warrant to deify the past. Consequently, I find it difficult and possibly wasteful to try to identify just what part of our heritage was Christian in hopes that we can somehow get back to it.”
― Teaching Redemptively: Bringing Grace and Truth Into Your Classroom
― Teaching Redemptively: Bringing Grace and Truth Into Your Classroom
“One might well conceive all of human history as the story of humankind's journey from beauty lost to beauty gradually sought and regained. Never, over the centuries, has the human need for beauty been extinguished...Art, somehow removed from the practical demands of everyday life, reveals that our kinship is not with the biological world only; it is also with the spiritual world.”
― Hidden and Triumphant: The Underground Struggle to Save Russian Iconography
― Hidden and Triumphant: The Underground Struggle to Save Russian Iconography
“My brother William is a fisherman, and he tells me that when he is in the middle of a fogbound
sea the water is a color for which there is no name.”
― Sarah, Plain and Tall
sea the water is a color for which there is no name.”
― Sarah, Plain and Tall
“You can’t go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.”
― Travels With Charley: In Search of America
― Travels With Charley: In Search of America
“The longer we remain isolated in a period of liberty, the harder it will be to find one another in a time of persecution.”
― Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
― Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
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