It’s so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.

We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.

We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.

Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.

Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word – to science, to history, to what reason and our own experience tell us. We do not honor the higher truth we find in Christ by ignoring truths found elsewhere.

What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.

The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.

Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.

Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.

Isn’t that what growing up is all about – learning to outlast despair?