A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.

In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.

Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word - to science, to history, to what reason and our own experience tell us. We do not honor the higher truth we find in Christ by ignoring truths found elsewhere.

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.

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.

Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.

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