To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.

For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ.

Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.

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

The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.

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

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.