Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what I suppose he meant was the truth was so pure, so holy, that it was hard to emphasize one aspect of the truth without underestimating another, that we did not see things as a whole, but through a glass darkly, as St. Paul said.

Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.

What I read in the Bible seemed to me to be very much a part of daily life.

We're living in an age of genocide. ...And we do believe that there is not only the genocide of war, and the genocide that took place with the extermination of the Jews, but the whole program....of birth control and abortion is another form of genocide.... [T]hey claim the poor are bringing forth tremendous numbers of children and so the solution is to kill them off.

There's enough hate in the world. I command you to love. And you have to make an effort.

Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong.

Communities are made up of the unlovable as well as the lovable.