I guess if you want to know one single thing I'm about, it's that I'm against easy answers.

It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.

Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself as well as from others than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture

Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.

I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than raw power. They do not respond, at least in the short run, to either gentle kindness or any form of spiritual persuasion with which I am familiar.

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.

All human interactions are opportunities either to learn or to teach.