This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.

We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.

The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.