There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

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

Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.

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

It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.

All of life is the exercise of risk.