All Genuine Learning Is Active, Not Passive.

There Are Genuine Mysteries In The World That Mark The Limits Of Human Knowing And Thinking. Wisdom Is Fortified, Not Destroyed, By Understanding Its Limitations. Ignorance Does Not Make A Fool As Surely As Self-deception.

The Materialist Assumption That Spiritual Substances Do Not Exist Is As Much An Act Of Faith As The Religious Belief In The Reality Of Angels.

Education Is The Sum Total Of One's Experience, And The Purpose Of Higher Education Is To Widen Our Experiences Beyond The Circumscribed Existence Or Our Own Daily Lives.

Sin Is Not Only Manifested In Certain Acts That Are Forbidden By Divine Command. Sin Also Appears In Attitudes And Dispositions And Feelings. Lust And Hate Are Sins As Well As Adultery And Murder. And, In The Traditional Christian View, Despair And Chronic Boredom - Unaccompanied By Any Vicious Act - Are Serious Sins. They Are Expressions Of Man's Separation From God, As The Ultimate Good, Meaning, And End Of Human Existence.

Sometimes It Feels Like I'm Thinking Against The Wind.