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

Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet; and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. 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.

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

It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.

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...?

We are not loved because we are valued; we are valued because we are loved.

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