On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal God, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.

I have DECIDED to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. GOD is love.

What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.