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

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

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

People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.

We call on all members of America's religious communities, as a testament of our common faith, to join Faithful Security, and to take action immediately to break faith with nuclear weapons.

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

It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.