“This is why some conservatives need to stop eating their anger porridge every morning . . . for those who have been around the kind of things I write, you will know that I believe we are supposed to have enemies. And I also believe that it is most necessary that we fight them. At the same time, and this cannot be emphasized too much, we are under the strictest of orders to love our enemies (Matt. 5:44; Luke 6:27,35). Love is not inconsistent with a vigorous polemic. It is not inconsistent with prophetic rhetoric. It is inconsistent with scurrilous abuse.”

American Milk and Honey, pp. 10-11

“It is hard to see straight and see red at the same time.”

American Milk and Honey, p. 9

“Our modern political tangles are a veritable festival of envy, everywhere you look. Trying to find envy in our political disputes—and especially when it involves the Jews—is like trying to find some beads at the New Orleans Mardi Gras parade.”

American Milk and Honey, p. 9

“Envy sharpens its teeth every night.”

American Milk and Honey, p. 8

“Apart from Christ, the electric crackle of envy runs along all the wires. Everything is hooked up to this particular grid. The current flows from Gentile to Jew, Jew to Gentile, white to black, black to white, short to tall, fat to skinny, and so on—mimetic desire and carping envy are absolutely everywhere and in everything. People who dismiss this with a wave of the hand do not understand the Scriptures, and they are blind when it comes to identifying one of the mainsprings of all unregenerate human action. The prohibition of envy and covetousness (‘of anything that is your neighbor’s’) is in the Ten Commandments for a reason” ().

American Milk and Honey, p. 5