“If one has lived long enough, there is danger of succumbing to the word “God” merely because it was always there.”

“It is not enough to proclaim the word of God without putting it into practice in every Christian’s daily life. The word of God has to be lived in every person’s daily activities and in communion with other people.”

“Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.”

“Poetry is not a mere shuffling of dead words or even a corralling of live ones.”

“Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it.”

“You can never get rid of God as long as you continue to use words, because all words are part of the Word.”

“Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.”

“And then there is a second thing, a second principle that we've got to go back and rediscover. And that is that all reality has spiritual control. In other words, we've got to go back and rediscover the principle that there is a God behind the process. Well this you say, "Why is it that you raise that as a point in your sermon, in a church? The mere fact we are at church, we believe in God, we don't need to go back and rediscover that. The mere fact that we are here, and the mere fact that we sing and pray, and come to church—we believe in God." Well, there's some truth in that. But we must remember that it's possible to affirm the existence of God with your lips and deny his existence with your life. The most dangerous type of atheism is not theoretical atheism, but practical atheism […]. And the world, even the church, is filled up with people who pay lip service to God and not life service. And there is always a danger that we will make it appear externally that we believe in God when internally we don't. We say with our mouths that we believe in him, but we live with our lives like he never existed. That is the ever-present danger confronting religion. That's a dangerous type of atheism.”

“… she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.”

“Spelunking is dangerous enough without adding in anything that could be described with the word "ravening."”