Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.

In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

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

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.

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

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