Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me.

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

The detached observer's view is one window on the world.

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

The detached observers view is one window on the world.

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.

The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.

The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.