Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.

Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.

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.

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

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

Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet; and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.

We are not loved because we are valued; we are valued because we are loved.