There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world.

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

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

All of life is the exercise of risk.

Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.

It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.

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.