I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.

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.

Fear destroys intimacy. It distances us from each other; or makes us cling to each other, which is the death of freedom.... Only love can create intimacy, and freedom too, for when all hearts are one, nothing else has to be one--neither clothes nor age; neither sex nor sexual preference; race nor mind-set.

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

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

In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.

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