God knows it is emotionally satisfying to be righteous with that righteousness that nourishes itself on the blood of sinners. But God also knows that what is emotionally satisfying can be spiritually devastating.

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

Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.

Jesus is both a mirror to our humanity and a window to divinity, a window revealing as much of God as is given mortal eyes to see. When Christians see Christ empowering the weak, scorning the powerful, healing the wounded, and judging their tormentors, we are seeing transparently the power of God at work.

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