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.

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.

I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.

It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.

A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.

Love is in the giver, not the gift.