Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation

Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word - to science, to history, to what reason and our own experience tell us. We do not honor the higher truth we find in Christ by ignoring truths found elsewhere.

Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.

Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.