The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst war in American history... Our military men and women...were not called to defend America but rather to attack Iraq. They were not called to die for, but rather to kill for, their country. What more unpatriotic thing could we have asked of our sons and daughters...?

Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.

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

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

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

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.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.