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

Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.

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

In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.

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.

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

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.