Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.

Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.

Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race. . . Let us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never. Let us love our country, but pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora and fauna and human life that it supports - one planet indivisible, with clean air,... soil and water; with liberty, justice and peace for all.

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

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