Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love.

‎It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.

In Christ there is no East nor West.

Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.