All of life is the exercise of risk.

Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.

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.

Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation

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.