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.

Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.

Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.

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

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

Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.

It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.