The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.

To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say yes is a better thing.

Two of the greatest hungers in our world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social change. The connection between the two is the one the world is waiting for, especially the new generation. And the first hunger will empower the second.

I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.

Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.