In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.

We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.

I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.

Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world, for such a triumph came through the meekness of a cross.