The first duty of love is to listen.
Accept the fact that you are accepted, despite the fact that you are unacceptable.
Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness.
Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.
Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.
In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware