“So in the seventeenth century the battle for liberty was between the Crown and Parliament, and Parliament was in the right. In the eighteenth century, the battle for liberty was between Parliament and the colonies, and the colonies were in the right. No one institution or nation or entity is indefectible. Bad men show up everywhere, and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if our final liberties were eventually removed by the Czar of All Fourth of July Celebrations.”

Mere Christendom, p. 116

“The church is supposed to model for a confused world what a real human society is supposed to look like. The church is not supposed to be a mirror that reflects the confusions of Manhattan right back at it.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 13

“If you want a nation of pot-smoking fornicators to be free, you want something that is not going to happen.”

Mere Christendom, p. 114

“To return to the idea of the painting, our generation is trying to blot out the painter’s signature on His creation and then trying to repaint the whole thing. Once his name is smudged out, and marriage is no longer defined as ‘one man, one woman, one lifetime,’ the sky is the limit. We have polyamorous relationships, open marriages, sex with robots, bestiality, digital sex using a web page, sex with organs that are not sex organs, and so on. We can hump the world if we want. The painting is now ours—or so we fancy in the midst of this current cultural mushroom dream.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 10

“The First Amendment, rightly understood, does not prohibit a civil acknowledgment of the Lordship of Jesus. It prohibits the establishment of a particular denomination of Christians at the federal level as a national church.”

Mere Christendom, p. 111