The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth; you'll seek security. If a heart is full of love, it will have a limbering effect on the mind.

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.

For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ.

Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.

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

I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'