When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.

We call on all members of America's religious communities, as a testament of our common faith, to join Faithful Security, and to take action immediately to break faith with nuclear weapons.

Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race. . . Let us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never. Let us love our country, but pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora and fauna and human life that it supports - one planet indivisible, with clean air,... soil and water; with liberty, justice and peace for all.

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

I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.

It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.

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.