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.

It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system.

It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp?

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

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.