In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.

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

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.

It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system.

It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.

The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.